Friday, June 03, 2005
Reasons number 8 and 9 why changing the name was dumb
More on saving the children from the horrors of some dead dude's name.
The school was originally named for Thomas Jefferson, the second president of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. (emphasis mine)
Oh, yeah, people totally understood Jefferson.
One of our learning processes with the students that will continue out of the debate over the Jefferson name change will be what do you do when you have a difficult decision to make. How do you take a stand? How do you make courageous decisions?
That's from the principal, who was apparently high when she said it. Voting to change the name isn't courageous. What is courageous is trying to learn from something that might remind you of something painful. I could've voted to change the name, and I don't do anything courageous.
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