Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Northam urges education leaders to remove Confederate names from schools

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Gov. Ralph Northam (D) wants school systems across Virginia to change the names of schools honoring Confederate leaders.

In a July 6 letter to the heads of school boards in the state, Northam says the names and mascots have a "traumatizing impact on students, families, teachers and staff of all backgrounds."

"When our public schools are named after individuals who advanced slavery and systemic racism, and we allow those names to remain on school property, we tacitly endorse their values as our own," Northam wrote. "This is no longer acceptable.

4 comments:

  1. Just skip the middle steps. Names everything MLK. every street. Every school. Every public building

    --generic

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  2. Why don't we make his head into a monument ?

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