Virginia - Robert E. Lee high school to be renamed Staunton High

[underpants]

School Board Votes to Change Lee High School to Staunton High School

STAUNTON, Va. (WVIR) -
Staunton's only high school now has a new name.

Next July, Robert E. Lee High School will officially revert back to its old name and become Staunton High School.

On Monday, November 12, the school board unanimously voted on this name, which was also the top pick in the board's public survey.

http://www.nbc29.com/story/39467473/school-board-votes-to-change-lee-high-school-to-staunton-high-school

[hlthe2b]

1. Good but only propelling the "St-ANT-on" v "St-AUNT-on" pronunciation debate....

Virginians will likely "get" my point...LOL

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. GOOD.

[Laxman]

3. It's About Time To End The Mythos.....

that General Lee was someone to be admired. A symbol of slavery and treason who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. His "goodness" is a fable perpetuated to assuage the ego and conscience of the descendants of a generation of traitors and racists. He needs to be remembered with clarity and truth, not through the gauzy lens of the guilty who are trying to rationalize their error.

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

The myth of Lee goes something like this: He was a brilliant strategist and devoted Christian man who abhorred slavery and labored tirelessly after the war to bring the country back together.

There is little truth in this. Lee was a devout Christian, and historians regard him as an accomplished tactician. But despite his ability to win individual battles, his decision to fight a conventional war against the more densely populated and industrialized North is considered by many historians to have been a fatal strategic error.

But even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are black. Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one. That ideology is known as the Lost Cause, and as historian David Blight writes, it provided a “foundation on which Southerners built the Jim Crow system.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

[dameatball]

4. I have been to Staunton several times. It's a cool place. Not too big but pretty active.

[Sneederbunk]

5. Barry Goldwater and John Dean went to a military school there.