WOODSTOCK, Va. — A group of supporters in Warren County is prepared to support their neighbors in Shenandoah County fight against an effort to reverse school names back to their original Confederate names.
The Shenandoah County School Board is expected to vote on a request by the group Coalition for Better Schools to restore the names of two schools that were changed amid the racial reckoning in 2020.
The school board then changed Stonewall Jackson High School to Mountain View High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School to Honey Run Elementary School. The same group attempted to reverse the names in 2022 but it was stalled by school board members in a 3-3 vote.
“To remove that symbol of solidarity is a big message to the community, locally and regionally,” Kelsey Lawrence of Front Royal, a rally organizer, told WUSA9. “It starts in these areas where there’s not as many people. If we don’t pay attention, it grows and festers, and these things gain traction.”
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