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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. | |||
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| {{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/ | |||
| }} | |||
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| ==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. The clubs offered at Byrd for 7th and 8th grade are A Club, Drama, Forensics, Law Enforcement, Young Authors, Digital Media, Digital Graphics, French, Spanish, FCCLA, Sports for Teens, ], and ]. There are no clubs offered for 6th grade. | |||
| ===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. | |||
| == References == | |||
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| ==External links== | |||
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Byrd, Harry Flood Middle School}} | |||
| ] | |||
| {{Virginia-school-stub}} | |||
Revision as of 07:55, 7 September 2008
THERE'RE NO WINDOWS.
WHY ARE THERE NO WINDOWS?!?!?!?!?
- cries*