Well, it'll be "Justice High School" so they can call themselves the "Kneeling Rebels" LOL
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Posted on 11/03/2017 4:13:16 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON — Fairfax County Public Schools, the largest public school system in the D.C. region, is asking for financial donations to help cover the substantial costs associated with renaming J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, Virginia.
Following a vote to rename the school last week, county officials set up a website, asking people to send in money.
So far, the effort has generated more than $8,000.
Officials said any donations will help with name-change expenses, which otherwise would need to be covered entirely by county taxpayers.
The full cost of changing the school’s name is expected to be somewhere around $1 million.
“All donations received will be used toward the costs of renaming J.E.B. Stuart High School to Justice High School,” officials wrote on the site.
“Funds raised in excess of the actual costs of renaming will be used to support student programs and services at Justice High School.”
Officials added that “donations are tax deductible.”
After years of debate, a nearly four-hour session by the Fairfax County School Board Oct. 26 lead to a decision on what to call the school, which had been named after a Confederate general.
Board members voted 7-4 in favor of renaming the school “Justice High School.”
Sandy Evans, a board member from the Mason district, said using the word “Justice” would be a good way to honor Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Barbara Rose Johns, Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. and all those who have fought for justice and equality.
Johns was a Civil Rights leader and Mendez was a U.S. Army officer who joined Virginia’s education department.
Evans said the controversial renaming process was the hardest issue she has faced in her eight years on the board.
The school name change will need to happen no later than the start of the 2019-2020 school year, and Superintendent Scott Brabrand is expected to announce a plan in the coming weeks on how to carry out the process.
What about the mascot name? Resting Rebels instead of Running Rebels because Jeb Bush is low energy.
...not one cent for tribute.
-Robert Goodloe Harper
Well, it'll be "Justice High School" so they can call themselves the "Kneeling Rebels" LOL
Back in the eighties, the police in Falls Church drove Volvos.
They have the money.
They have the money.
And guess who got the votes to become that district's Congress critter?
Just tell the knotheads that J.E.B. Stuart blew the Civil War for the Confederacy by looting a Union wagon train instead of returning to the battle in time to win at Gettysburg, and therefore is an anti-slavery hero. It’s not a 100% fair interpretation, but it wouldn’t waste a million dollars either, and the students could relate to the looting.
NOVA is mainly a multicultural liberal bastion
I can attest to that, living as I do here behind enemy lines...
Let the Blacks pay for it if it means so much to htem
Let the Blacks pay for it if it means so much to htem
A fitting name(Kneeling Rebels) and position to take when surrendering to your opponent.
Great idea.
The morons who are so gungho for this change should be the ones to pay for it. The normal average citizen is up to their ears in taxes and should not have to pay for nonsense that accomplishes nothing besides appeasing community agitators.
I guess you could say all former graduates are now disenfranchised, they should demand all the their diplomas be reissued and all their school records (college apps etc) be corrected to reflect the name change.
The school board members supporting the purge of Virginia history SWORE during the discussion phase of this that they have a donor who will take care of ALL the expenses and their stupidity wouldn’t cost the taxpayers in the community; the vast majority of whom support keeping the J.E.B. Stuart name, one red cent. Democrats lie — shocking.
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