Politics Portland public schools reevaluate each building name

[Orion Bailey]

Oh it was much more than that.

You were born in the bathroom too?

 

[CupWizier]

And for all of us who are older than dirt, Adams was the old Girl’s Polytechnical HS (“Girl’s Poly”) until the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. Basically the female counterpart to Benson.....

Actually Adams was a new high school built at Fernhill Park off 42nd and Killingsworth. It opened my sophomore year at Grant as we lost many students to their opening and some pretty good athletes. Girls Poly was located near Laurelhurst Park and then was merged with Washington High School. It was an old school that I believe is still there but not sure what it is being used for. We use to play football in the property behind the school and the Coca Cola plant. Had many friends that grew up in that area and I went to Laurelhurst Grade school with.

 

[Hoopguru]

My wife graduated from Washington High School as well in 1972. She also knew Alan and Carl Ruggles. My sister in law was actually the last graduating class at Washington-Monroe in 81'.

Didn't the Stoudamire brothers go to Washington?

 

[CupWizier]

Didn't the Stoudamire brothers go to Washington?

Yep. There were three of them. I played football and basketball against the younger brother Anthony. Charles and Willie were the older ones.

 

[Natebishop3]

Despite Sly's inability to post a decent image, I'm going to just assume it was Matthew Mcconaughey.

 

[julius]

Markham and Jackson were two different schools.

Jackson middle school used to be Markham middle school

 

[CupWizier]

Jackson middle school used to be Markham middle school

Was there a Markham Middle school at a different location before the old Jackson High School building was turned into a middle school?

 

[julius]

Was there a Markham Middle school at a different location before the old Jackson High School building was turned into a middle school?

Yes. The current Markham elementary school (building) used to house the middle school.

In the mid 80s MMS moved to the old Jackson HS campus, and in 1990 it changed names to Jackson Middle School as Markham elementary school opened.

 

[Lanny]

Didn't the Stoudamire brothers go to Washington?

I believe so.

 

[Lanny]

Yep. There were three of them. I played football and basketball against the younger brother Anthony. Charles and Willie were the older ones.[/QUOTE
I had a friend, Greg Williams, aka coach Willie, now deceased, who was a second cousin of Damon Stoudamire. Coach Willie was well known for coaching football and basketball to 8th graders although he played baseball at Jefferson High and at U of O and then Portland State where he graduated.

 

[CupWizier]

Yes. The current Markham elementary school (building) used to house the middle school.

In the mid 80s MMS moved to the old Jackson HS campus, and in 1990 it changed names to Jackson Middle School as Markham elementary school opened.

ah, okay. That makes sense as I wasn't sure where exactly Jackson Middle School came from. I know Whiteaker Middle School moved into the old Adams High School, but they kept the Whiteaker name. Thanks for clearing it up.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

He publicly opposed slavery and tried very hard to get it eliminated in the Constitution. The South opposed him and threatened to not support the new union without slavery. With no support from the South we were doomed to lose to the British.
Also, it depends on how you define many and I'm not even sure that Sally was not a willing participant.

"Unlike countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner. In Paris, where she was free, the 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia."

https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/

You can't be a willing participant when you're a child. She was raped. Maybe she tried to make the best of a very bad situation but that's it.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Jefferson was opposed to slavery, He fought hard to make it unConstitutional. I believe he turned all his slaves free before he died. So, he was bad for once owning slaves it's not what you were or once believed it's what you are or believe last that counts.

When I was 8 or 9 years old, I was a little racist but about when I turned 12 I changed and have been virulent in my opposition to racism ever since. Does that make me bad?

8 or 9 is different. You were still growing up.

 

[Minstrel]

Jefferson was the "moderate" version of an abolitionist. He believed slavery should end, but slowly, freeing slaves in a gradual manner, potentially over generations. He also believed black people were inferior and should live segregated.

So, it's up to you how you look at that in terms of racism--pretty obviously a racist, but better than most of his time, especially when it came to Virginians of that time.

 

[Lanny]

You can't be a willing participant when you're a child. She was raped. Maybe she tried to make the best of a very bad situation but that's it.

Can't argue with that. Children don't have the ability to make wise decisions.