HOUSTON SCHOOLS ARE FAILING BUT AT LEAST THE SCHOOL BOARD CAN RID THEM OF CONFEDERATE NAMES

Eight Houston schools will have to change their names because minority school board members despise the fact they are named after Confederate war heroes

BarkGrowlBite | January 18, 2016

In a 5-4 vote, the Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees ordered that four HISD schools named after Confederate war heroes will be renamed. The schools that will no longer be shamed with Confederate names are the Henry Grady, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Richard Dowling middle schools, and Robert E. Lee High School. Lanier and Johnston middle schools and Jeff Davis and Reagan high schools will also have to change their names, but a little later.

Schools in the Houston Independent School District have been failing miserably. Many HISD students, especially those in schools where most students are minorities, cannot read, write and do simple math - add, subtract, multiply or divide. Some HISD graduates wouldn’t be able to spell ‘cat’ if you spotted them the ‘c’ and ‘t’.

If you asked HISD students, both black and white, who Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were, most wouldn’t have the foggiest idea. For that matter, most adults in Houston’s black neighborhoods also probably won’t know that Lee and Jackson were Confederate war heroes. And even if they did know, they would probably care less if some schools were named after heroes of the Confederacy.

It’s only a group of black activists and their white liberal supporters that have raised a ruckus about buildings and monuments in the South that honor heroes of the Confederacy.

Never mind that Houston’s schools are failing. Getting rid of those shameful Confederate names is much more important.

What it all boils down to is that what we have here is just one more example of a politically correct erasure of history.