News: DISD to Consider Renaming Schools (Houston, Dallas: neighborhoods, middle school, camps)

[calgirlinnc]

Last week, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from Lee Park.

Now this:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/educ...e-name-changes

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

Last week, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from Lee Park.

Now this:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/educ...e-name-changes

I don't see a problem with this. In fact, it's long overdue.

[mSooner]

Confederate generals, fine. Thomas Jefferson? Benjamin Franklin???

At some point you have to acknowledge that many of the great leaders of our country weren't perfect. I guess we should add FDR to the list for his involvement in Japanese Internment Camps.

[calgirlinnc]

What did Sam Houston do that was so bad? In fact, he opposed the secession and would
not side with the confederacy.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

Last week, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from Lee Park.

Now this:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/educ...e-name-changes

As they should. The handful of schools with direct ties to the Confederacy need to be renamed, especially considering their history. Most were opened during the height of the KKK's reign in Dallas or to protest the dissolution of Jim Crow laws and served entirely black populations. The intention was to intimidate, not to revere the good 'ole generals. Robert E Lee elementary today is 81% minority and 74% poverty level. I think we can come up with a better role model to name the school after....

Two years ago the students at DISD's Hood Middle School voted overwhelmingly to rename their school Piedmont Global. DISD administration approved the change from one that honored the Confederate General to one that shares the Piedmont neighborhood's name - good move & student led!

I think the rest of the list is going overboard though. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves but died a half century before the Civil War. You really can't hold historical figures to moral and ethical tides that came well after their lifetimes.

[TheOverdog]

They've said they are only considering a small number of schools, specifically the ones named after confederate generals. TJ and Sammy H are safe.

[ChristieP]

DISD should spend its limited funds on things that will actually make a difference in educating kids: classroom improvements, new technology, and fixing South Oak Cliff HS. Spending money to change the names of schools is a waste of time and money!

[CMC_TX]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

Last week, a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from Lee Park.

Now this:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/educ...e-name-changes

Heaven forbid the corruption engine otherwise known as DISD actually focus on improving their abysmal academic performance. What a joke - another day, another circus side show for the liberal idealogues.

[Beardown91737]

For the most part my opinion is that we (the USA or "Northern Agressors") won the Civil War (or "War of Northern Aggression") so we can decide what statues to allow or what school names are acceptable.

However if you need to rename a Sam Houston School, then you need to rename the City of Houston as well. Does anyone know if St. Francis did anything politically incorrect by US-leftist standards? St. Francis is English for San Francisco.

[jgn2013]

DISD might as well change.

Random though: why are "urban" schools often named after people but suburban schools (or schools that have mostly been majority white) named after streets/neighborhoods/cities etc.?

Southlake H.S. is just "Southlake"....not William B. Travis or John F. Kennedy H.S. Plano, Plano East, Plano West, the various Frisco schools, Coppell, Celina etc., are just named after the city. You have North Dallas H.S. and South Oak Cliff H.S. but also a slew of schools named after individuals....not streets or neighborhoods.