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 â 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. â 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.
Reading the comments online at the news sites, even non-white Houstonians are upset by this. Their school’s name and identity are being changed and they see it as a part of their own history disappearing.
Pussies.
Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad High School or Kanye West High. You know that’s really what this BS is about in the long run. They left wants to scrap all things that even sound remotely white as part of their takeover scheme.
I don’t agree with this rewriting of history, and I’m a Yankee!
Three negroes and a hispanic.
HISD actually removed the “Albert Sidney” from the Johnston school name some time ago, as they did with the “Robert E.” for Lee.
They dropped the Battle Flag from Lee and Westbury 10-15 years ago, and changed Westbury’s mascot from the Rebels to the Huskies(!?) last year.
RE Lee HS has been ~95% minority for quite some time, btw, as has Westbury.
Odd that Johnston escaped the axe while Lee did not. Probably because few know who ASJ was.
Rename every school and building named after a Jim Crow Dixiecrat Democrat too. They were far worse than any Confederate general.
It becomes very apparent that we are following the communist credo when we rename landmarks and public places to appease the minority.
Never, in my life did I ever expect to see the ERASURE OF HISTORY in this country on such a blatant scale.
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it and that is being clearly shown here at home due to Political Correctness. We are repeating the early days of Russia’s transition to Stalinist rule...and the millennials love it!
Excuse me MS Scurlock, but Hitler was trying to take over the whole world. The Confederates were just trying to protect their states rights.
Houston had slaves.
Houstonites are slaves
Ethnic Cleansing Joe Stalin would be proud of.
Seeing as how the government schools are failing them anyway why not show the kids what happened to a real bunch of losers.
None of these a-holes would even be worthy enough to lick Robt. E. Lee’s boots.
In many Schools in Houston ISD, White children are not safe.
They are assaulted and intimidated regularly, but that is not the horrific part.
The horrific part is that staff and faculty will not raise a finger to protect the white students. They are either afraid to act, or they actually identify with the nonwhite perpetrators.
I must pay thousands of MORE $$$$ to send my child to a private school. Why? Because I do not want her to be assaulted or raped by savages.
Exactly! Scummy bast*rd democrats!
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