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| {{Infobox School | name = Harry Flood Byrd Middle School | |||
| | image = | |||
| | type = ] | |||
| | principal = Sharon Pope | |||
| | enrollment = approx. 1,100 | |||
| | free_label = Colors <br> Mascot | |||
| | free_text = Navy 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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| '''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. | |||
| ==General information== | |||
| Byrd Middle has an athletic program which provides sports such as football, wrestling, boy's and girl's soccer, boy's and girl's basketball, coed (boy's and girl's) gymnastics, baseball, softball, boy's and girl's track and field, and boys and girls tennis. The clubs offered at Byrd for 7th and 8th grade are A Club, Drama, Forensics, Books to Movies, Ecology, Digital Media, Digital Graphics, French, Spanish, Sports for Teens, ], Gifted Alumni, 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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