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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 = Sharon Pope | |||
| | enrollment = approx. 1,100 | |||
| | 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 athletic program which provides sports such as; football, wrestling, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, coed(boys and girls) gymnastics, baseball, softball, boys and girls track, and tennis. And cheerleading, which is by far the best in the whole world. 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 integration 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 receiving an education and who strongly supported keeping black students as second 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 to the fact that the actual history of Harry Flood Byrd is seldom discussed within the school! | |||
| ==Schedule== | |||
| Until the 2007-2008 school year, Byrd Middle School ran on a ]. This means that there are four classes a day, each one lasting an hour and thirty minutes long. In the fall of 2007, a new schedule was implemented. On Mondays, the student would have all classes with the exception of H block, which is to be the new block for the academic wheel class. Each class would last about 45 minutes, and the students would end school at the scheduled time. | |||
| ==Death in the Student body== | |||
| Last year the 2007-2008 school year a student commited suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in his house. There are large numbers of Emos in the school who slit their wrists for fun and are led by Fluffers (Kenneth Fassel) | |||
| == References == | |||
| <references/> | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * | |||
| {{DEFAULTSORT:Byrd, Harry Flood Middle School}} | |||
| ] | |||
| {{Virginia-school-stub}} | |||
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