RPS could switch to phonics next year and reading would improve. That has been proven in other urban school districts.

"we'll try everything but addressing the guns." - forever and ever.

How is that a strawman? This IS a generations-long problem thanks to No Child Left Behind and standardized testing and underfunding of schools. Complain to the Virginia Department of Education about their standards of learning if you want to make a difference.

The schools in question.

authorized renaming Binford Middle School, George Wythe High School, Ginter Park Elementary and John B. Cary Elementary earlier this year

Stawman much? Nobody said they could snap their fingers. They need to change their approach to teaching, especially moving back to the proven phonics-based programs for reading. Adding more resources is not going to help a failed approach, and they are not willing to revisit it.

Oh no! RIP Cooper. Brought joy to all who saw him.

It’s incredibly myopic to think that RPS can just snap its fingers and put in more resources and suddenly a generation-long problem is solved. Does that mean they couldn’t do better? Certainly not. But the thing hobbling them is not renaming some schools.

But they aren't. And at the end of the day, absolutely nothing will improve following these name changes.

Yeah it’s complete security theatre. It has no real effect and costs a lot of money while also letting people think they are safe and potentially lowering their guard. All while not doing anything about the issue with school shootings in America, and not protecting students.

There’s a house next block over that will bring out dirt bikes into Highland Park area (3 or 4 of them). They were out over the weekend for few hours. Their neighbors (the house on corner) weren’t home so what do they do? Tear the dirt bikes through the neighbors yard (and throughout the neighborhood). Absolutely 0 respect or fucks given. It’s annoying and I don’t bother reporting them because the last thing I want is to become a target.

It’s possible to do more than one thing at the same time. ETA George Wythe may have had a change of heart, but he still owned slaves.

I don't think I agree with this mentality that all humans are so depraved that nobody should ever have anything named after them. The overwhelming majority of humans are pretty ok.

I also really don't care if people are offended by something little. That's on them. Owning slaves and the like isn't little.

Done.

>According to RPS, many names were named after individuals who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and/or owned slaves.

Would it kill these reporters to spend a few minutes verifying the underlying logic behind the change? Because it seems like RPS is focusing on renaming schools when it should be focused on improving math and reading proficiency, which are currently well below the state average.

>George Wythe George Wythe (1726 – 1806) was a citizen of Enlightenment, deeply interested in politics and history and science. He emphasized reason and individualism. In his lifetime, he argued both publicly and privately against slavery, urging the emancipation of enslaved people and owning none himself by the end of his life.

Yea every school that I walk/drive past in Church Hill has outdoor PE.

Yeah when you have no morals and name shit after idiots it can be hard to know if they will be discovered for their evil in the future. Might as well get rid of all names!

Already closed. And I was feeling opinionated.

If you need more responses, maybe r/samplesize can help?

I feel like it would be an overall good thing to do to just name the schools after anything besides people, really

I still say, number them. Any names they pick will likely offend someone, now or in the future.

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I want to imagine that some of the questions were to throw me off; otherwise it would be hard to imagine a study that could cogently use all of that data.