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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 don't understand why people think renaming a school is rewriting history. It's writing the present--a time when we realize that we don't want to honor people who fought against freedom. It doesn't mean that we forget they existed. Do we really want Lee and Stuart held up as role models?[/quote] Truthfully, when I think of other countries that have fought civil wars, the postwar reunification process is often difficult, sometimes impossible. I think the effort to acknowledge and honor both sides in the US is positive, not negative. Even, or especially, the fact that these schools were built and named during desegregation is an extremely important part of our more recent history. Renaming the schools is not rewriting history, but it is turning away from it, acting as if it didn't happen. [/quote]
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