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Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)
Reply to "Petition to Change Names of Stuart and Lee HS"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess the phrase "check your privilege" sounds glib, but it's surely applicable to the knee-jerk response of many whites to any suggestion that naming schools after men who fought to defend the institution of slavery might make minority students feel less than fully welcome. [/quote] I admit, I'm of two minds on the idea. The original idea of not demonizing the South, of reuniting into one country after the Civil War, accepting our complicated history, favors keeping these names as they are. But maybe we've moved past our history and are ready to change these names in order to make the effort to explicitly include everyone. The man who purchased the car from the TV show Dukes of Hazzard is going to repaint it. I don't understand the point of that at all. So what do I know?[/quote]
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