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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] 
What babble. The name change opponents (the "keepers") like to throw out a lot of vague accusations, as if School Board members speaking with constituents is similar to Don Jr. colluding with the Russians.

Personally, I think the School Board members have to vote in favor of changing the name. Otherwise they look like a bunch of wimps who have no backbone and won't stick up for colleagues who are being attacked by a bunch of right-wing crazies. [/quote]

LOL!
The changers have been demeaning the superintendent from that time--claiming it was spiteful against integration.  The FOIA shows that one of them read the minutes and found proof that it was not done out of spite at all.  Yet, they kept the story alive.  Pretty low.

Vague accusations?  That "babble" as you call it is in writing--emails from Albers, Hynes, Evans, and their supporters.

This explains why they took the memo off the agenda.  They are worried--and they should be.  They violated the transparency on several levels.  They kept changing the goal posts on the whole procedure.

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If naming a Virginia high school after a Confederate general in 1958 - at the same time Virginia was fighting integration tooth-and-nail - wasn't "spiteful against integration," it certainly was indifferent to the feelings of the minority students who eventually would be allowed to attend the school.

There is, in fact, clear documentary evidence that Superintendent Woodson opposed integration and, when called to integrate the schools, proposed a gradual plan that would not have fully integrated the schools until 1971 and which the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found not to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

There is also, in fact, clear documentary evidence that the same School Board that voted to name a school after JEB Stuart had, just a few years earlier changed the name of a "Committee on Desegregation" to the "Segregation Committee" to assuage opponents of integration in FCPS.

And, finally, Stuart himself was no hero, and certainly not a "Union Hero," as the keepers' silly t-shirts proclaim.  He was an opportunist, an anti-abolitionist, and a terrorist who conducted raids into Pennsylvania during the war, and he renamed his own child (originally named after his father-in-law, a Virginian who remained loyal to the Union).  It's time to return the favor and rename the school.

As for "taking the memo" off the agenda, I'm not sure what that means.  "JEB Stuart HS renaming" is on the agenda for the July 27th meeting. [/quote]

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