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| '''Harry Flood Byrd Middle School''' is a public middle school in ], ]. It is located at 9400 Quioccasin Road. It teaches grades six, seven, and eight. | |||
| {{Infobox School | name = Harry Flood Byrd Middle School | |||
| | image = <!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: ] --> | |||
| | type = ] | |||
| | principal = Anne L. Poates | |||
| | enrollment = approx. 3,000 | |||
| | free_label = Colors <br> Mascot | |||
| | free_text = Blue and Gold <br> Senators | |||
| | location = 9400 Quioccasin Road, Richmond, VA 23238 | |||
| | information = (804) 750-2630 | |||
| | website = http://henrico.k12.va.us/MS/byrd/ | |||
| }} | |||
| ==General Information== | |||
| The school rivals of Byrd Middle School are ], Tuckahoe Middle School, and ]. Byrd Middle has an excellent athletic program which provides sports such as; football, wrestling, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, gymnastics, baseball, softball, boys and girls track, and tennis. The clubs offered at Byrd are A Club, Drama, Forensics, Law Enforcement, Young Authors, Digital Media, Digital Graphics, French, Spanish, FCCLA, Sports for Teens, ], and ]. | |||
| ===Controversy=== | |||
| Some controversy has arisen in relation to the naming of the school. ] was a leader of the Virginia ] movement after ] ordered the intigration of schools in 1954. Massive resistance did great damage to racial relations in Virginia by singling out the black population and treating them as second class citizens. "For a period of five years, 1959-1964, public education was denied to more than 2,000 African-American children and a number of poor white children who, with only a few exceptions, remained unschooled." <ref> "They Closed Our Schools" http://www.mercyseatfilms.com/background.html 4/4/2007 </ref> | |||
| Some see the naming of a prominent middle school after a leader who kept so many students from recieving an education and who strongly supported keeping black students as secon class citizens to be offensive. Not much in the way of outspoken protest has come from within the student body, but this can be attributed the fact that the actual history of Harry Flood Byrd no only goes unmentioned but is actively avoided in classes. | |||
| ==Schedule== | |||
| Byrd Middle School runs on a ]. This means that there are four classes a day, each one lasting an hour and thirty minutes long. | |||
| ==iBooks== | |||
| Byrd is part of the ] ] program. Each student in the school gets an ] several weeks after school opens. These iBooks are brand new as of 2006. | |||
| == References == | |||
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