[ladygreek]

We are waging a battle here in MN about how history should be taught in out schools--sanitized are reality. I support the latter. In that vein then I do not agree with changing the names of schools named after figures who made a place in our history--good or bad. What is important is that the whole truth be taught about the person.

If we start changing names because someone owned slaves, then we would have to make sure there are no buildings named after Black folk who owned slaves (because some did.) I think changing the name of the school named for George Washington is a prime example of taking it to far. After all everyone owned slaves back then but he was the first president of these United States. The latter is why a school should be named after him.

And to take it a step further in those days, since it was the norm, it was not so much a matter of them owning slaves, but how they treated them.