I went to Stonewall Jackson High School. The name is a part of our countries history. I am very concerned about the push to erase the history of our country.
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Margaret guthrie
6 years ago
Like many Southerners, Jackson struggled with his feelings about the institution of slavery, but it obviously was God’s will that it exist—a belief widely held in the South. In 1855, he began teaching Sunday school classes to slaves in Lexington, a violation of Virginia’s segregation laws. Slaves came to know him through these classes and sometimes begged him to buy them so they wouldn’t be sold into the Deep South where they might be worked literally to death. In 1906, long after Jackson’s death, Reverend L. L. Downing, whose parents had been among the slaves in Jackson’s Sunday school, raised money to have a memorial window dedicated to him in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, Virginia—likely making “Stonewall” the only Confederate general to have a memorial in an African American church
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Tim Cavender
6 years ago
Keep the name! this is history and tradition.
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sue frye
6 years ago
I do not want to change the name of stonewall jackson
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Eric Burdette
6 years ago
There are hundreds of people in the area who have memories at that school including my own father
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Pamela
6 years ago
My sons father graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School and my son attended Stonewall Jackson Middle School. I do not agree with changing the names of historical buildings, history will remain the same.
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Richard Short
6 years ago
I am very proud to say I am a SJ grad (class of 65). This is not racial. It’s a matter of pride in your alma mater.
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Doug Hughart
6 years ago
keep the name, part of my past & friends!! Not right to change it now!!
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Delores Holmes
6 years ago
This is our history ! Build you a new school , and name it what ever you want ! Leave this school alone !
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Gloria Kirk
6 years ago
Leave it as is. Do not make any changes.
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William Moffatt
7 years ago
The name of the school should not be changed. It has a long history in the community and many generations of families have attended SJMS, and the high school before.
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Loretta Bittorf Pfahlert
7 years ago
Stop trying to erase our history. This is America. Don't like a name? Go to another school. Better yet, go to another Country.
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jean winter
8 years ago
That's exactly correct= voters have memories!!!
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David Marinovich
9 years ago
Don't you dare change the name of my mother's high school!
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Jean Hammock
9 years ago
I believe that people need to leave our path from the past alone and if we are going to start changing school names then let's change them ALL FROM BOTH SIDE INCLUDING ANY NAMES FROM THE TIME PERIOD OF THE SEGREGATION! IT'S BECOMING RIDICULOUS THAT EVERYDAY IN THE NEWS SOMEWHERE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO ERASE OUR HISTORY!
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A C Chapman
9 years ago
Keep the name. It's part of history and shouldn't be discarded.
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Jim Caldwell Class of 1959
9 years ago
Keep the name !!!!!!!
Stonewall Jackson...Great leader and General for the Southern States.
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Ann Bays
10 years ago
Class of 85.
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Robert Miller
10 years ago
Keep the name Stonewall Jackson! Thousands and thousands of people graduated or went to school there, and remember it with pride.
Don't take that away!
Do not try to change history.
I went to Stonewall Jackson High School. The name is a part of our countries history. I am very concerned about the push to erase the history of our country.
Like many Southerners, Jackson struggled with his feelings about the institution of slavery, but it obviously was God’s will that it exist—a belief widely held in the South. In 1855, he began teaching Sunday school classes to slaves in Lexington, a violation of Virginia’s segregation laws. Slaves came to know him through these classes and sometimes begged him to buy them so they wouldn’t be sold into the Deep South where they might be worked literally to death. In 1906, long after Jackson’s death, Reverend L. L. Downing, whose parents had been among the slaves in Jackson’s Sunday school, raised money to have a memorial window dedicated to him in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, Virginia—likely making “Stonewall” the only Confederate general to have a memorial in an African American church
Keep the name! this is history and tradition.
I do not want to change the name of stonewall jackson
There are hundreds of people in the area who have memories at that school including my own father
My sons father graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School and my son attended Stonewall Jackson Middle School. I do not agree with changing the names of historical buildings, history will remain the same.
I am very proud to say I am a SJ grad (class of 65). This is not racial. It’s a matter of pride in your alma mater.
keep the name, part of my past & friends!! Not right to change it now!!
This is our history ! Build you a new school , and name it what ever you want ! Leave this school alone !
Leave it as is. Do not make any changes.
The name of the school should not be changed. It has a long history in the community and many generations of families have attended SJMS, and the high school before.
Stop trying to erase our history. This is America. Don't like a name? Go to another school. Better yet, go to another Country.
That's exactly correct= voters have memories!!!
Don't you dare change the name of my mother's high school!
I believe that people need to leave our path from the past alone and if we are going to start changing school names then let's change them ALL FROM BOTH SIDE INCLUDING ANY NAMES FROM THE TIME PERIOD OF THE SEGREGATION! IT'S BECOMING RIDICULOUS THAT EVERYDAY IN THE NEWS SOMEWHERE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO ERASE OUR HISTORY!
Keep the name. It's part of history and shouldn't be discarded.
Keep the name !!!!!!! Stonewall Jackson...Great leader and General for the Southern States.
Class of 85.
Keep the name Stonewall Jackson! Thousands and thousands of people graduated or went to school there, and remember it with pride. Don't take that away!