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By Angela Woolsey/Fairfax County Times
4 hrs ago
J.E.B. Stuart High School senior Anna Rowan first learned the details of where her schools name came from when she took a history of the Americas class in 11th grade.
Rowan says she was already aware that James Ewell Brown Stuart fought as Confederate general during the Civil War, but it wasnt until she took that history class that she heard her high school had received its moniker in the 1950s as a protest to federal efforts to integrate schools.
That realization inspired Rowan, her classmate Lydia Ananuel, and three other J.E.B. Stuart High School students to start a campaign to change their schools name.
Since they launched their efforts with a video shown during their film class in June 2015, the students push to rename J.E.B. Stuart High School gained both local and national attention until the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) board agreed to explore the possibility of a change in February ...
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/j-e-b-stuart-high-school-debates-school-name-change/article_a032a42a-2452-11e6-9f7c-57281ee9e658.html
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)against the USA. And it's particularly offensive to have a public school named after a Confederate General.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)getting my certification as an art teacher.
My great granddaddy probably helped to chase Stuart out of Frederick, MD, right before Gettysburg. He was in the First Maine Cavalry.
JEB Stuart High Schoolhas been so diverse for so long that National Geographic wrote a big article about it 15 years ago.
Here it is:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/09/01/html/fulltext3.html