The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, early Friday approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools. The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous board's decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War. Do you agree with the school board's decision to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools?

The board stripped their names after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, fueling a national racial reckoning. The calls for racial justice and equity inspired some communities to remove Confederate symbolism and statues of Confederate generals. But in Shenandoah County, the conservative group Coalition for Better Schools petitioned school officials to reinstate the names of Jackson, Lee and Ashby. "We believe that revisiting this decision is essential to honor our community's heritage and respect the wishes of the majority," the coalition wrote in an April 3 letter to the board, according to a copy posted online. Do you agree that the names should be restored because it is "essential to honor our community's heritage"?

About 80 people spoke Thursday before the board's vote — more than 50 of them against restoring the old names. "I am a Black student, and if the names are restored, I would have to represent a man that fought for my ancestors to be slaves," one student said in a direct appeal to the board members. Do you think the decision should have have been made by a public vote instead of the school board voting?