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Re: Name decolonization
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2021, 10:11:46 pm »
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/06/01/duval-school-board-votes-to-change-6-confederate-tied-schools-including-lee/7493301002/

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“Keeping the names of Confederate generals in our children's schools is a slap in the face to every African American that attends these schools," Wells Todd of Take’Em Down Jax said. "Those that oppose the names being changed are acknowledging their support for the Confederacy and all that it stood for."
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The school board voted to rename the following schools:

    Joseph Finegan Elementary to Anchor Academy
    Stonewall Jackson Elementary to Hidden Oaks Elementary School
    Jefferson Davis Middle to Charger Academy
    Kirby-Smith Middle to Springfield Middle School
    J.E.B. Stuart Middle to Westside Middle School
    Robert E. Lee High to Riverside High School
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“The School Board’s decision to rename six schools in Jacksonville is a giant step forward in righting a racist ideology. We don’t need schools named in honor of slave-holding Generals,” he said. “That our children had to go to schools that were named to honor a disgraceful past was an injustice. The School Board’s vote tonight rejects those ideas and is a victory for Jacksonville.”

The new names genuinely sound better too.