What's different a year after the wildfires? | SaltWire #novascotia #firefighting #wildfires #newsWOODSTOCK, Virginia - The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals' names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidly Republican district, becoming the first in the U.S. to take such an action.
Among more than 60 schools that have abolished Confederate appellations across the country since 2020, none had reversed course until now, according to the trade publication Education Week, which has tracked the issue. Speakers on the other side countered that such symbols and memorials are vestiges of a racist ideology that has perpetuated a sanitized"Lost Cause" myth of the Confederacy as well as the Jim Crow era of racial segregation and discrimination that followed the Civil War.
The proposal voted on was initiated by a local conservative group, the Coalition for Better Schools, which cited the"cultural significance" and"historical context" of the original names.
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