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[quote=Anonymous]I live in the community and have children in the pyramid. I voted for Marshall, Johns, and Mendez in that order and am thrilled with the final name Justice High School. While the community remains divided over the issue (Stuart vs. New Name), everyone that I know who wanted the name change, is embracing the new name. Of course "the keepers" are not happy with the name and wouldn't have been happy with any name except Stuart.

Schultz played this whole thing very well and intentionally tried to make the Democrats look bad. Hopefully, most people see through her tactics. For those of us who have been following this from the beginning and attending school board meetings, we know exactly what she was doing. She would have never have voted or introduced those names if they had the votes. She introduced them because she knew they would fail and make the rest of the school board--who was trying to look for a compromise--look bad.

The kids could not have had a secret vote in the school because the school administration prohibited any formal discussions about the name change at the school. And regardless, high school students should not be solely in charge of picking a name. The day of the vote there were many students voting and because it was only one vote per household it was easy enough for someone else to come and vote if the kids were busy.

Stuart received the most votes but nowhere close to the majority of votes. More than 70% of voters selected another name for their first choice and 63.8% of households did not vote for Stuart at all. The way the vote was set up, it's no surprise that Stuart had more votes than any other name. All the keepers had to do was vote for Stuart while the rest of us had to pick from 72 names. It would have been like Trump against these other 72 people.

This issue has divided the community and has turned friend against friend, but most people I know strongly support the decision. I hope things settle down soon but I am thankful to the school board to have the courage to do this and know that history will be on their side for removing a white supremacist and traitor from the name of one of the most diverse schools in the country.[/quote]

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