A majority of students vote to rename Dallas school named for Confederate general (TX)
Tawnell D. Hobbs
Published: February 5, 2016 12:32 pm
A majority of students at John B. Hood Middle School voted to drop the Confederate general’s name from their school ...
LaTonya Lockhart, Hood’s principal, said she wanted to let the students make the decision of whether to move forward with efforts to change the name. She called it a lesson in democracy ...
“Since it had to do with a bad man who worked with the Confederacy, I think we should change it,” said sixth-grader Nidia Hernandez, 12. “He wanted to keep slaves” ...
“He was a confederate soldier. What he did everybody knows it was bad, but why change history,” said eighth-grader Cristina Ramirez ...
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/students-vote-on-changing-name-of-school-named-for-confederate-general.html/
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