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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] but there is significant social research suggesting that forcing minority students to attend schools named to honor Confederate heroes has a negative impact.[/quote]

Please cite your source on this "significant social research".

Also, minority students, like all students, are forced to attend schools with all kinds of names because of compulsory education laws (state).  The locals mandate which schools will be attended based on geographic location of residence.

Maybe it is time to change the names of these schools.  But I find it very dubious that the name of the school is affecting students negatively to any real degree.  Many of the students at Lee don't even know who Robert E. Lee was (I am not kidding you---it's mostly because they have not been in the US long enough to know).  I suppose they find out when they get to the 11th grade US history course, but I'm not sure they suddenly feel a negative impact at that point.  [/quote]

Can you actually point to a situation where a white child in this country is zoned to a school named for someone who fought to maintain an institution that was as horrible for white people as slavery was for AA's?

And am I correctly understanding your second argument that the students of color couldn't possibly mind the names because they are too ignorant?  If we find one who does object, will you call them uppity next?[/quote]

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