Posted on 01/14/2016 10:17:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Four schools within the Houston Independent School District will be renamed and four others removed from the discussion after approval Thursday night.
Just after 7pm, trustees approved a plan to begin the process of renaming four schools with Confederate titles. Those schools include Henry Grady Middle School, Richard Dowling Middle School, Lee High School and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson Middle School.
Trustees approve plan to begin process renaming 4 schools to represent #HISD values/diversity: @GradyMS @DowlingMS @LeeHSHouston, Jackson MS — Houston ISD (@HoustonISD) January 15, 2016
Four other schools with ties to the Confederacy were removed from the
list: Albert Sidney Johnston Middle School, Sidney Lanier Middle School, Jefferson Davis High School and John Reagan High School.
#HISD trustees remove 4 schools - @PurplePups, @jeffdavishs, Johnston MS, Reagan HS - from list to allow time to 1st meet w/ community. — Houston ISD (@HoustonISD) January 15, 2016
With the name-changing measure, each campus will be required to form a school-naming committee made up of diverse staff, students and parents.
Linda Scurlock has been fighting to change the name of Dowling Middle for months.
"I think about Nazi Germany, and nothing in Germany is named after Hitler, you know he lost too," Scurlock said. "That's my feeling about that. We should think about a united country."
Howard Moon represents the other side of the debate. He graduated from Reagan High School in 1951 and wants the school to keep its name.
"It's ridiculous. If there was a reason, a justifiable reason, there is none, it's just pure - what do they call it - political correctness," Moon said. "And a lot of people like myself are getting kind of tired of political correctness."
Moon said his alumni association donates thousands of dollars in scholarships to students at Reagan.
"We're so fearful that if they change the name, a lot of those future contributions is not going to come to Reagan," Moon said. "It's going to go to other schools."
Both Scurlock and Moon will speak their minds at the 5pm meeting, hoping board members will take note.
Related article:
Should Houston’s Lanier Middle School Lose Its Name Because Of Confederate Ties?
Texas Monthly January 14, 2016 John Nova Lomax
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Well, heck! Why don,t they remove the name “Houston” from HISD? After all, the Hon. Sam Houston killed a bunch of Mexicans and made them like it on a nice April afternoon in 1836.
I don’t have a problem with changing “John Reagan H.S.” to “RONALD Reagan H.S.” ! ;)
Literally just started ranting about it after the media-manufactured Confederate hysteria following Roof's shooting in South Carolina.
The only people dumber than the a-holes pushing this crap are the ones who go along with it. If you live in Houston, KEEP USING THE OLD NAME. See my tagine !!!!!!!
Oh, wait...
A-holes ought to have their education funding taken away.
Never thought that Houston would become a Commie history revisionist center.
Idiots! What? now they are revising History?
I bet next they change the male pronouns on the bible to he/she and in a few year to ‘zer’.
Then they’ll start erasing all the Texan heroes from scanned photographs, and perhaps inserting more ‘acceptable’ figures instead. Just like Stalin did.
As history has shown us before, this is an evil slippery slope and the proponents of it misguided dangerous fools.
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Race relations have taken another hit, as Black lamented their lot in life as a result of slavery.
When will folks take responsibility for their own actions and lives?
N E V E R as long as we pamper them.
It’s way past time for tough love...
After all, we don’t want the enemy islamist in the White House to feel bad.
He hates the Confederacy too, as with anything American.
> Why don’t they remove the name “Houston” from HISD?
All in time. These things must be done delicately. /s
Government schools must be abolished. Immediately.
FU HISD! As a former student at Robert E. Lee High School, I am offended that a long honored name is being erased from history. I grew up reading about Soviet historical revisionism, but I never imagined that I would live to see it here.
Our school mascot at the football games was a statue, a somewhat comical bowlegged caricature of General Lee wielding a sword above his head, about to lead a charge. Our marching band was called The Marching Generals and the band uniforms were a very realistic grey officer’s uniform complete with a yellow sash, and a grey rimmed felt hat. Our school song was George Gershwin’s “Swanee”.
Those were fun, innocent times and we never expected anyone to be seriously offended by romanticizing something from 150 years ago. Being an American is fast loosing its meaning and I am ashamed of this country’s decline.
It ain’t a slope, it’s a cliff. We’re almost to the bottom now. KYAGB.
HISSY-D (HISD) says they are changing the names for diversity.
Who’s the first out homosexual who’ll have a children’s school named after him/her?
Ray Hill?
A.Nus Parker?
Houston’s city name could soon become Stalingrad or Leningrad.
Good point. That’s exactly what’s happening.
Insufficient funds, so of course they spend them organizing meetings such as this one, typing up memos, soliciting suggested new names, rebranding the school (tiling, signage, stationary, legal filings, etc.).
Next.. THE AMERICAN FLAG!
Do you know why Trump may become President? Because a lot of ordinary Americans are fed up with shit like this! I have been an alert observer of Liberal rot for over 40 years and am sick to death of it! Electing Trump will be like poking a collective finger in some Liberal’s eye.
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