The Shenandoah County school board voted to reverse a resolution removing the name of Confederate officers from two schools.
The Shenandoah County school board voted to rename Honey Run and Mountain View, two schools under their purview, Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High. by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. The protests called for a re-examination of ingrained racial discrimination in the United States — including the continued veneration of Confederate figures who’d fought for the preservation of slavery in the American Civil War.
The backlash from residents of the county was swift and intense. A similar motion to reverse the name change was brought to the board in 2022 butin April of this year arguing that the vast majority of the district supported the restoration of the schools’ original names. Shenandoah County’s local battle over the legacy of Confederate figures is a microcosm of an ongoing national reckoning regarding the place historical figures who fought for the dissolution of the nation and the preservation of a brutal regime of human slavery should have in modern society. In 2020, a statue of Lee wasafter a unanimous vote by a Virginia state commission.
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