Process Announced to Consider More Than Just Renaming Robert E. Lee Middle School

I can't imagine with all the craziness in the world this bull$&%* has made it to San Angelo! Do you people not have anything else to do?! Slavery happened! A LONG time ago. Changing building names will never change that! LET IT GO grasshopper. Find something constructive to spend your time on.

In the future we should only name things after perfect people who didn't do anything wrong. Since there has only been one of those Jesus middle school, Jesus elementary, Jesus federal building. It might get confusing but at least we won't have to deal with things named after people with flaws. Somehow I think the people wanting Lee renamed won't like this way any better.

To change any PUBLIC EDUCATION SCHOOL names is racist itself. Black lives don’t matter won’t change anything that will make no difference. It’s all freedom of speech and I don’t see thugs like George Floyd to be honored by changing freedom of speech or history. It’s is his fault that he is DEAD.

There is no clean or dirty version of history it just is. As Jack said these were great men and I am sure of they were born today they would have fought just as hard for freedom and civil rights as they then fought for what they considered their country. They like everybody were a product of their time. You would be hard pushed to find any white man that considered the black man his equal in the 1860's. Indeed, most abolitionists would not have gone that far. These men are a product of their education and environment. To them slavery was legal and as natural as getting out of bed in the morning. As for the traitor argument the United States in those days was something of an abstract concept to most both North and South. A man was first a Virginian or Marylander, a Hoosier or New Yorker and only second an American. The states were sovereign entities then and people were loyal to their state. The important thing here is simple. These men and women were important in the history of your country and as such they should remembered honoured or not. Most people are intelligent enough to despise a historical characters less civilised attitudes but to accept them as idiosyncracies of their time, education and the societies they lived in but still to respect their contributions to history both good and bad.In short assigning modern values and motivations to the actions of historical characters will always result in censure.

We can’t change the past nor should we, thats how we learn. This is the south and these people are our history. Were they perfect no, but neither are any of us. I’m sure the schools in the north are named after people that fault in the war too and I’m sure they weren’t perfect some even had adultery in their past, so do we take their names down too? This is how we learn and it’s time to stop hugging trees and put your big boy and girl panties on and stop getting offended by everything. Grow up!

It'll always be Lee Jr. High School in my book.
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You have to know that "Robert E. Lee's fate in San Angelo" has already been decided. But it will not end there. Get ready for Cesar Chavez Middle School, and Harvey Milk Elementary. We'll probably get an Obama elementary AND middle school. They are accepted progressive icons because they abhor the classic Western (Judeo/Christian) culture.

This is not about history ,or slavery, or the civil war, or even racism. This is about destroying traditional Western (Judeo/Christian) culture. It's about progressives pushing their humanistic government-dependent worldview on the rest of us instead.

You cannot look at history from our current point of view and understand. It's the ultimate in virtue signaling. It is a classic narcissistic progressive tendency (pardon the redundancy) to look at history through modern progressive values. Instead of teaching people to look at history from the historical perspective first then learn the lessons they did not at the time, we are teaching people re-write or simply ignore history. That serves no useful purpose. Well, except maybe to allow the Democrats to eventually claim that they were not the party of slavery, or the party of the KKK, or the party of Jim Crow, or the party of segregation, or the party of abortion, etc...

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Goodness, just leave all the schools the names they are now. You cannot change what happened in history years ago. It just a part of life. There were slaves and now there's not. We have had white presidents and one black president. So what! It was taught in school that Columbus discovered America, now there are rumors he didn't and someone else did. There are homeless people here and there are ones who have a roof over their head. Why are we worried about a school name when people in this city have no place to sleep and very little food. Wake up San Angelo and get your priorities straight.

The men who served in the Confederate army were pardoned as part of the Nation's healing process. It wasn't all perfect after the Civil War. We still had carpetbaggers and others who took advantage of the situation. The men on both sides endured incredible hardship. You really can't get a sense of what is was like without walking the battlefields and spending a little time in the field in the military yourself. Men on both sides should be remembered. The people reunited a broken nation back then through reconciliation. Now we have Marxist mutts trying to destroy it through denouncing history, creating chaos and anarchy.

and for San Angelo that's saying a lot. the change won't be cheap because the will have to tear down the signage etc then will have to get all new banners shirts etc made reflecting whatever change they make. As for the person who proposed the change, is he footing the bill personally? nope all the taxpayers will get stuck for it and then complain because their already high property tax just got higher (those that pay taxes anyway) it's history for goodness sake. those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

What a waste of taxes!! So now we are going to allow PhD’s with little to no common sense lead the charge to rename god knows what & completely waste our time & money. What idiots! I don’t like some of the street names because they don’t honor American Indians - I guess someone will lead a charge to to change that eventually. We have better things to do, than to change school names. I bet this ASU professor has trouble tying his shoes & cant walk & chew gum at the same time! This is most definitely San Angelo’s dumbest hour! I wonder why we never get Apple factories or Black & Decker or Tesla...oh, that’s right - major corporations don’t give a crap what the schools are named, they just want educated graduates, something we have little of here!

Should we rename Robert Lee Texas? Robert Lee was also a military officer in the United States Army. History is History, erasing history serves no other purpose than undoing the past to remake the future.

..that this debacle is part of a misguided and futile effort to appease unemployed, shut-in losers and career criminals who can barely articulate coherent thoughts and phrases?

Couldn't we just meet in the middle and mail out vouchers for menthols and 10% discounts for FUBU wear, or promo codes for Pokemon apps?

What if some of us don't like the new name, or plaques and/or monuments which may follow the revision? Can we urinate on and deface the school, Democrat-style, since this manner of political dissent is the newly accepted m.o. of today?

Let's see...George Washington had a lot of slaves. So did Jefferson. So does this para-logic demand that Washington D.C. should be renamed? Idiocy of the highest order. More grievances from the grievance culture. This is posturing and symbolism to conform to bullying BLM propaganda done in the name of "community ideals." As if such ideals exist in the community. Try an experiment. Go out into the community, whatever that is, and ask someone what their community ideals are. This is all contrived feel-good speak. Here's a learning tip from a retired teacher: try reading what Robert Lee himself actually said about slavery and form your own conclusions. That's called learning about history.

What's next?! Defunding the police? I have a feeling this is just the beginning of more demands coming soon from these liberals who are never happy until all of America is under their control!

Shouldn't this be a democratic process including votes by all the citizens of San Angelo?

I do believe that SAISD would have better things to spend OUR tax dollars on, but I am sure that they will give in to the crybabies. I am glad that I chose not to send my children to SAISD.

History must not continue to be whitewashed. Treachery must not be honored. Leave the names, but they must be accompanied by plaques listing the crimes against the United States of America. Statues should be demolished. They are of no historical value other than putting treacherous secessionists in plain view.

Whatever, Rita.