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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore than 125,000 kids attend 195 schools still named for Confederate leaders.
What kind of message does that send?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/schools-named-for-confederates_n_7697488.html
At least 195 public schools around the country have names that memorialize Confederate soldiers, leaders or politicians, according to a Huffington Post analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data from the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years.
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We also looked at the demographics of the over 125,000 students in these schools, which includes a disproportionately high number of nonwhite students. More than half of students who attend schools named after Confederate leaders are black or Hispanic. About 22 percent of students who attend these schools are black and 31 percent are Hispanic.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)It is a very large high school. When I first moved here, I was floored. It was built in 1958.
We had a KKK thing here in town today too. The city wants to move a confederate monument from a city park into the cemetery where CSA are buried. Not good enough for the deplorables.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)It's now Margaret Long Wisdom HS, named after a veteran HISD teacher. Their mascot is still the Generals though.
Jefferson Davis HS has been changed to Northside HS.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)The one I'm talking about is Lee HS in San Antonio. For some reason the name does not stir much controversy.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I knew people who went to Brumby Elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, named for one of the guys who lynched Leo Frank.
The extent to which White Supremacy is ingrained in the culture has never been reckoned with.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)New name has yet to be chosen.