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Resident Chuck Moran urges school board to remove Phil Varner materials from renaming process
Summary
Chuck Moran, a resident adjacent to Johnson Elementary, told the school board the research by Phil Varner is biased and has defamed his family; he asked that the Varner documents be removed from the division website and that Burnley Moran and Johnson be resubmitted for advisory committee review.
Chuck Moran, a neighborhood resident who lives next to Johnson Elementary, told the Charlottesville City Public Schools board on Sept. 19 that documents prepared by researcher Phil Varner have unfairly framed local namesakes and should be removed from the division's renaming materials.
22Mr. Varner's story unfortunately has led to the defamation of my great aunt Sarapa Moran,22 Moran said during the public-comment period, arguing the research "maligns" some Caucasian namesakes while sparing African American ones. He said the author's work is presented as a narrative rather than a professional historical…
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