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Tue May 24, 2016, 09:29 AM May 2016

Debate over J.E.B. Stuart High School name change continues (VA)

By WTOP Staff
May 24, 2016 7:29 am

In a packed room at J.E.B. Stuart High School, in Falls Church, on Monday night, Fairfax County Public Schools officials listened as parents, students and alumni debated .. the school’s name ...

... Anna Rowan, a senior at the school ... said that learning that her high school was named .. as a symbol of resistance against school integration in the late 1950s made her want to speak up ...

Alumnus Paul Clark said there were more important things that need the public’s attention than the school’s name ...


http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2016/05/debate-over-j-e-b-stuart-high-school-name-change-continues/slide/1/

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