MIDLAND, TX — The Midland ISD school board met Monday night and voted 6-to-1 to rename Robert E. Lee High School and the Lee Freshman School. The Midland Lee Rebels are no more, wiping out a storied name in Texas High School football since 1960.
The Lee name had few fans on the board. Rick Davis, an attorney and president of the Midland ISD Board of Trustees, said his decision to rename the schools was based upon why Robert E. Lee’s name was inaugurated by the former Midland ISD school board when the school was built in 1960.
In an op-ed in the Midland Reporter-Telegram, Davis said he asked himself why Robert E. Lee’s name was used, “I believe that the naming of Robert E. Lee High School in in 1960, in the midst of the civil rights movement, six years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision prohibiting segregated schools, and about six years before Midland de-segregated its high schools, fails the ‘why’ test.” https://www.mrt.com/opinion/article…
During the presentations for and against Midland Lee’s name, the paper reported that 17 of 22 rose in favor fo changing the name. The arguments against changing the name ranged from not surrendering to the “cancel culture’ to the cost of the name change.
Board member Bryan Murry attempted to have the agenda item tabled before debate began. His motion failed to receive a second and, at the end of the discussion, the other 6 board members voted in favor of the change.
Next year would have been the 60th anniversary of Midland Lee High School.
Locally, the San Angelo ISD takes up the renaming of Robert E. Lee Middle School in October.
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Shocking indeed. This from the liberal bastion of Midl....wait, nvmd. The question of "why" it was named after a traitor to The United States of America was answered a long time ago. It's just more people are acknowledging it these days.
“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool”.
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PermalinkYet you expect us to believe that the people driving the movement to change names and topple statues are motivated by patriotism? Falsehoods indeed!
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PermalinkNot sure what the answer is to all of this but you cannot change history. I do understand why the naming of some Schools is looking questionable in today's environment but I doubt that re naming them is the answer. Perhaps educating our kids about the history behind these names is a better answer.
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PermalinkAnd so, although the reasons were reactive and fairly unsound when the school was named, renaming the school and "mascot" infects a lot of memories and personal history. The sins of the fathers are being visited upon the children. There is always the chance that no one really cares, but I doubt it. Destroying physical cultural items does not change the history, and we have seen it over and over the last few months. Unless someone comes up with a brain ray that causes us all to forget our own "good ole days" or causes us to suddenly wipe out years of textbook indoctrination, then we are who we are and we are somewhat of what we've learned. Personally, I would like to I sue every textbook publisher that had anything to do with my public school education.
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PermalinkJust a bunch of pussies caving into the desires of the far left, Antifa and BLM pieces of trash that make up all the retards in those groups........
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PermalinkAs per usual, the doctor delivers, with a few choice words, a clearer picture than the rest can paint with a full essay and a thesaurus handy.
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PermalinkIf SA school board caves to this nonsense, we need to elect members that have a backbone. We label left/right but what we're witnessing is the fruit of the religion of humanism that's established itself in the education and government systems. These commies getting their panties in a wad over stuff that happened 150+ years ago and bet not a single one of them were there to suffer their imagined hardships. In the meantime they turn a blind eye to the reality of today-human trafficking which is real 21st century slavery, and 350,000 babies killed annually here in Planned Parenthood slaughter houses. Hypocrites, phony sissies.
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Permalink"In the meantime they turn a blind eye to the reality of today-human trafficking which is real 21st century slavery, and 350,000 babies killed annually here in Planned Parenthood slaughter houses. Hypocrites, phony sissies." - mutt and jeff
Yeah, funny how everyone keeps ignoring that. People hear rumors about doxxings, LSD spiked soda from the 1960s or that so much as sitting on your ass and feeding text into the web to be aggregated by some unaccountable 3 letter entity might get you a ticket to Valhalla and they choose to live in a 3 ring circus hell instead.
Everyone wants to talk about the afterlife but no one wants to jeopardize their motorboat, much less reckon with their existential anxiety. Have a safe and happy story hour, M&J!
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PermalinkThe only thing Texas has to be proud of in public education are the facilities. Some of the best football stadiums in the world.
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