Republic School District is considering changing the names of Price and McCullouch Elementary after some in the community have expressed distaste they are the names of Confederate generals. He compared the Confederate-named schools to Confederate statues. According to Education Week, there are 135 schools across 17 states that are named after confederates, with the overwhelming majority (53) honoring Robert E. Lee. "When our public schools are named after individuals who advanced slavery and systemic racism, and we allow those names … Vance High School alumni and local historians had mixed reactions to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's plan to discuss renaming Vance High at its next meeting. An Education Week tally found at least 193 schools in 18 states named after Confederate leaders. There are also schools named after some very terrible people from history that need some new names.