{"id":2241735,"date":"2024-05-10T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-school-district-restores-names-of-confederate-generals-to-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:48:19","slug":"virginia-school-district-restores-names-of-confederate-generals-to-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-school-district-restores-names-of-confederate-generals-to-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia School District Reinstates Confederate Generals&#8217; Names in Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-school-district-restores-names-of-confederate-generals-to-public-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2241735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Virginia school district restored Confederate-linked \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-canceled-chicago-area-immigration-activists-protest-renaming-middle-school-after-former-president\/\" title=\"Obama Canceled? Chicago Area Immigration Activists Protest Renaming Middle School After Former President\">school names<\/a> after public uproar. The \u2062Shenandoah County School Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">changed<\/a> \u2064Stonewall\u200b Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary to Mountain View\u200d High\u200d and Honey Run Elementary\u2063 in 2020. Following public dissent, the \u200cboard\u2064 reconsidered and \u2062voted 5-1 \u200dto\u200c revert to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-of-tiny-suspicious-political-donations-questioned-by-watchdog-group\/\" title=\"Millions of Tiny, Suspicious Political Donations Questioned by Watchdog Group\">original names<\/a>,\u2063 amidst accusations of ignoring public opinion. Residents express diverse views on the historical significance \u200bof\u200d the names.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Virginia school district became the first in the United States to restore the school names associated with the Confederacy after they had been changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to change the names of Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School to Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School. However, local residents felt that the board had voted to change the names without consulting the public. On May 9, the board held a public hearing to discuss changing the names back, and in a 5-1 vote, approved changing the names back to their original names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board members in favor of restoring the previous names contended that the 2020 school board had taken shortcuts in order to achieve their goal. \u201cThis was not an innocent mistake by some inexperienced school board,\u201d District 2 School Board member Gloria Carlineo said, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whsv.com\/2024\/05\/10\/shenandoah-county-school-board-votes-restore-confederate-names-schools\/\">WHSV<\/a>. \u201cNo, this was a carefully choreographed advance of a school board alluding to ignore the people they represented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPeople in the Shenandoah Valley say that only the confederates are the ones who did nasty things, or did nasty things to black people,\u201d school board chairman Dennis Barlow, school board chair stated.\u201cYou just stopped reading your history, and you\u2019re not being realistic. War\u2019s hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m fed up on people lying about how our schools were named,\u201d one resident who supported changing the names back said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really rich that people lecture me about morality but excuse the actions of the 2020 school board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kyle Gutshall, the only dissenting vote declared, \u201cWe\u2019ve talked about the right way, the wrong way to do it. The right thing to do, the wrong thing to do. Things like this really come down to perspective and how you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-says-he-plans-to-run-for-re-election-in-2024\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Says He Plans To Run For Re-Election In 2024\">view things<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you vote to restore the name \u2018Stonewall Jackson\u2019 in 2024, you will be resurrecting an act in 1959 that is forever rooted in mass resistance and Jim Crow segregation,\u201d another resident argued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thomas \u201cStonewall\u201d Jackson is considered one of the greatest generals in the American Civil War. A devout Presbyterian, before the war he organized Sunday schools for blacks at his church. He was inadvertently shot by one of his own troops in 1863, had his left arm amputated as a result, and died eight days later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJackson neither apologized for nor spoke in favor of the practice of slavery. He probably opposed the institution. Yet in his mind the Creator had sanctioned slavery, and man had no moral right to challenge its existence. The good Christian slaveholder\u00a0was one who treated his servants fairly and humanely at all times,\u201d historian James Robertson wrote in <em>Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ashby-Lee is a reference to General Robert E. Lee, the leader of the Confederate army, and Turner Ashby, a Confederate cavalry officer who served under Jackson and was killed in 1862. Lee, who was initially offered the rank of Major General in the Union army that was to fight the Confederacy, at first opposed the secession of the Southern States. His loyalty to Virginia overrode that sentiment; he stated, \u201cI shall never bear arms against the Union, but it may be necessary for me to carry a musket in the defense of my native state, Virginia, in which case I shall not prove recreant to my duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking move, a Virginia school district became the first in the U.S. to return Confederate-linked school names. 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