Please rename John C Calhoun Elementary Bobby Brown Elementary. Though Calhoun was a prominent historical figure,  Vice President, Senator, and Secretary of State, his allegations that the institution of slavery contributed to the physical and mental well-being of Southern slaves and his equation of slavery with paternalistic caring are no longer views to be tolerated or venerated. His political rhetoric on the ideas of nullification and secession did much to shape thoughts of his fellow countrymen and planted the seeds of rebellion. The present has found arguments like the one expressed below no longer compatible with our modern life.

“I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good ... I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age. Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe—look at the sick, and the old and infirm slave, on one hand, in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress, and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poorhouse ... I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other “

As a society where children of all races are educated together as equals there is no need to honor the failed ideals of the past and the people who supported them.