Friday’s vote reversed a decision made in 2020 as systems across the South were removing Confederate names in response to BLM. Last year, voters elected ‘the first 100-percent conservative school board since anyone can remember.’

By Jack Montgomery | The National Pulse

A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school.

Following a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County school board will restore Mountain View High School’s former name, Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary’s former name, Ashby Lee Elementary.

The decision overturns the previous school board’s 2020 decision to remove Confederate names amid the violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots that saw many references to American and especially Southern heritage erased to appease far-left activists.

Senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, Rivka Maizlish, complained they had never before seen school authorities reinstate Confederate-linked names after their erasure by leftist activists.

The SPLC keeps a database tracking over 2,000 Confederate memorials nationwide.

Those on the school board who voted for the change have stated that the 2020 vote to overhaul the school names was conducted without sufficient consideration of public opinion or due process.

The school board underwent a drastic change after the 2023 elections, instituting the “first 100 percent conservative board since anyone can remember.”

The school board states that private donations will fund the costs of the name restorations.

However, the Joe Biden regime is continuing to drive the BLM agenda elsewhere in Virginia.

In December 2023, the 98-year-old Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy statue was pulled down in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Biden Pentagon toppled the Confederate Memorial, intended to represent reconciliation between North and South, in Arlington National Cemetery the same month. ##