A school board today voted to reinstate Confederate names to two schools that were stripped of their original names in the wake of the movement in 2020. The school board of Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted 5-1 to undo the 2020 decision, which saw a high school and elementary school stripping the names of three military leaders of the pro-slavery Southern states in the US Civil War: Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby.The schools were called Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School, but since been called Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School.
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