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| Harry Flood Byrd Middle School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| 9400 Quioccasin Road, Richmond, VA 23238 | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Principal | Sharon Pope |
| Enrollment | approx. 1,100 |
| Information | (804) 750-2630 |
| Colors Mascot | Navy Blue and gold Senators |
| Website | http://henrico.k12.va.us/MS/byrd/ |
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
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, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Gifted Alumni, and Knowledge Master Open. There are no clubs offered for 6th grade.
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.
References
- "They Closed Our Schools" http://www.mercyseatfilms.com/background.html 4/4/2007
External links
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