Do NOT change the name of the school. Lee was a great man before, during and after the war. He was a Virginian first and foremost. This is WASTEFUL of taxpayer's money and part of our American history.
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Virginia TRZICAK
6 years ago
Please dont change the name. There is too much history you will be destroying
Teach the children history instead changing history.
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Tom Harrison
6 years ago
Class of 1966
Our Graduation was held on 6/6/66 @ 6:00 pm
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Sue Mersch Carpenter Carroll
6 years ago
Robert E Lee HS 1978
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Kimberly Lackey
6 years ago
Leave things as they are, alumni will have no school
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Stuart Morton
6 years ago
I ask you to consider the reason for changing the name of the school. Is it based on accurate history or what could be called " politically correct history" that is causing so much divisiveness to our country today. While the communist had power in the USSR they try undo history by renaming cities such as Leningrad from St. Petersburg; and we all know how that turned out. Whatever your feelings on some matters in his life, let us not forget that Robert E Lee was also an educator, as Superintendent Of the US Military Academy at West Point and later as President of Washington College ( now known as Washington and Lee University). Lee, who had opposed succession and the war, became a national icon for reconciliation between the North and South. In 1866 he testified before the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction in Washington where he express the need for public education for the blacks. This is something that today's and future students can be proud of the man that there school is named.
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Jean Oliva
6 years ago
As a parent of 3 Lee High School graduates,I resent that someone moves into the area and proceeds to try to correct our history!!!
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Vicky Lawhorne
6 years ago
Vicky Lawhorne
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Political views a side, at an average price of $800k, as was the cost to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart HS to $1 million, it is astonishing that the Fairfax County School Board would deem the changing of Robert E. Lee High Schools name as one of their highest financial priorities. In a time when teachers are underpaid, school programs are underfunded and more students than ever are attending classes in trailers, certainly that abundance of federal, state and local dollars could be allocated in a more efficient manner?! As a parent, I would much rather see the funding used towards the education for the young men and women within the public school system.
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Lisa Byrne
6 years ago
Dont change the name or you will lose so much support
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Carol Gorton
6 years ago
Keep the school name as Robert E Lee High School
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Eric Jones
6 years ago
The priority is educating our students. Not expensive political fights.
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Dave Buonviri
6 years ago
Class of 1975, will always be Robert E Lee HS
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Pattie Nicolary
6 years ago
Save the name!
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James D Beams
6 years ago
Its a member of the Lee family. Huge name in American history.
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Chuck Harman
6 years ago
Leave our name alone
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Susan Ritchie
6 years ago
Please it was our name when I went to school and we like it.
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Sue Oak Livesay
6 years ago
Please don’t change the name of my high school. It will always be Robert E. Lee and should retain its name. History cannot be changed. We can only hope to learn from it and do better in the future.
Do NOT change the name of the school. Lee was a great man before, during and after the war. He was a Virginian first and foremost. This is WASTEFUL of taxpayer's money and part of our American history.
Please dont change the name. There is too much history you will be destroying Teach the children history instead changing history.
Class of 1966 Our Graduation was held on 6/6/66 @ 6:00 pm
Robert E Lee HS 1978
Leave things as they are, alumni will have no school
I ask you to consider the reason for changing the name of the school. Is it based on accurate history or what could be called " politically correct history" that is causing so much divisiveness to our country today. While the communist had power in the USSR they try undo history by renaming cities such as Leningrad from St. Petersburg; and we all know how that turned out. Whatever your feelings on some matters in his life, let us not forget that Robert E Lee was also an educator, as Superintendent Of the US Military Academy at West Point and later as President of Washington College ( now known as Washington and Lee University). Lee, who had opposed succession and the war, became a national icon for reconciliation between the North and South. In 1866 he testified before the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction in Washington where he express the need for public education for the blacks. This is something that today's and future students can be proud of the man that there school is named.
As a parent of 3 Lee High School graduates,I resent that someone moves into the area and proceeds to try to correct our history!!!
Vicky Lawhorne
Political views a side, at an average price of $800k, as was the cost to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart HS to $1 million, it is astonishing that the Fairfax County School Board would deem the changing of Robert E. Lee High Schools name as one of their highest financial priorities. In a time when teachers are underpaid, school programs are underfunded and more students than ever are attending classes in trailers, certainly that abundance of federal, state and local dollars could be allocated in a more efficient manner?! As a parent, I would much rather see the funding used towards the education for the young men and women within the public school system.
Dont change the name or you will lose so much support
Keep the school name as Robert E Lee High School
The priority is educating our students. Not expensive political fights.
Class of 1975, will always be Robert E Lee HS
Save the name!
Its a member of the Lee family. Huge name in American history.
Leave our name alone
Please it was our name when I went to school and we like it.
Please don’t change the name of my high school. It will always be Robert E. Lee and should retain its name. History cannot be changed. We can only hope to learn from it and do better in the future.
Just let Lee be Lee..
Save the name!!!