HALIFAX Two schools in the Halifax area will be changing their names this fall, after recognizing controversy surrounding their historical namesakes. Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) announced Wednesday that Sir John A. Macdonald High School in Upper Tantallon will be renamed Bay View High School, while Tallahassee Community School in Eastern Passage will be renamed Horizon Elementary School. The process to rename Sir John A. Macdonald High School began last November, after a years-long discourse on Macdonald’s legacy. By having our name, we re upholding values that our school does not support, said Grace Alberts, student council co-president in a video statement. In changing this name we re able to better support our minority groups at the school, specifically indigenous people who ve had to experience generational trauma from the effects of Sir John A, Macdonald, and to move toward truth and reconciliation.
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