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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have that backwards......it was a vocal minority who raised a fit demanding to change the name.  Far more wished it to stay the same.[/quote]

Wishing it doesn't make it so. The vast majority of votes were cast for "something other than Confederate general." And again, if would-be opponents had simply recognized that of course we shouldn't name public schools after traitors against the United States and allowed the name change to go through without massive resistance, there would have been no controversy.[/quote]

By the time of the last vote in September, there had already been several community surveys where students and residents expressed their support for keeping "Stuart." When FCPS decided to have yet another vote, many residents stayed away, recognizing that the School Board would disregard their views and go ahead with whatever they wanted.  And they were right: the School Board rejected Stuart and the other top four names in favor of "Justice," which wasn't even on the ballot as a "concept" name.  Evans needs to go. [/quote]

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