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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We should take one school at a time. The cost will be less than $675K when private donations are raised, and recurring costs that would be incurred in the normal course should not be included.

Bottom line: FCPS should not capitulate again to the neo-Confederates, as it did in the mid-1950s when it changed the name of its "Committee on Desegregation" to the "Segregation Committee. It's time to change the names of Stuart and Lee. [/quote]

It's not a matter of "neo-Confederates".  It is a matter of money.

Raise the private donations and then have a vote. And, those "recurring costs" that you mentioned are coming out of the pocketbooks of families.  And, they had expected not to have those "recurring costs".

Once more,  raise the money--then, take the vote.

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This should be a matter, first and foremost, of principle and righting historical wrongs.  Morality should not come with a price tag attached.  Do you honestly not realize that those who sought to preserve slavery once argued that the cost of emancipation would be too onerous?

Having said that, the opponents of a name change should stop exaggerating the likely costs.  [/quote]

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