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Harry Flood Byrd Middle School is a public middle school in Henrico County, Virginia. It is located at 9400 Quioccasin Road. It teaches grades six, seven, and eight.

General information

The school rivals of Byrd Middle School are George H. Moody Middle School, Tuckahoe Middle School, and Pocahontas Middle School. 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 are A Club, Drama, Forensics, Law Enforcement, Young Authors, Digital Media, Digital Graphics, French, Spanish, FCCLA, Sports for Teens, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Knowledge Master Open.

Controversy

Some controversy has arisen in relation to the naming of the school. Harry Flood Byrd was a leader of the Virginia Massive Resistance movement after Brown v. Board of Education 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." 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.

Schedule

Until the 2007-2008 school year, Byrd Middle School ran on a block schedule. 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.

References

1. "They Closed Our Schools" http://www.mercyseatfilms.com/background.html 4/4/2007

External links

• Harry Flood Byrd Middle School Technology

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