People Are Mocking Students Who Cried Over Robert E. Lee High School Name Change

Twitter has opinions. Who's shocked by that?

Students mourn the re naming of their San Antonio HS.
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Students mourn the re naming of their San Antonio HS.

On Monday a San Antonio high school that you otherwise would have never heard of voted to switch their name from Robert E. Lee High School to LEE High School, which is a not so subtle way to sort of keep the name, but also officially is an acronym for "Legacy of Educational Excellence." In case it wasn't already obvious, the move was an effort to dump the Confederate general in the wake of the Unite the Right rally that went so poorly in Charlottesville a few months ago. Nobody wants clowns with tiki torches showing up.

The change, which sounds like it would've been endorsed by Lee's own descendants, was not well received by this group of students who, uh, would appear to really, really care about the name of their school:

NEISD approves Robert E Lee name change to Legacy of Educational Excellence (L.E.E. HS) Students upset and outraged. @KABBFOX29 @News4SA pic.twitter.com/hmtXLZyu5W

— Ariana Lubelli (@ArianaLubelliTV) October 10, 2017

Sounds like you can still call it Lee? I mean, right?

Anyway, in response to their overly theatrical reaction, which they'll likely regret in a few years if they don't already, dramatic Twitter had some opinions (oh wow, there's a shock) of the dramatic teens:

His own descendants said they don’t want monuments or anything named after him b/c they’re embarrassed by him. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

— real housewife of san antonio (@Denise4SanAnto) October 10, 2017

You would think Robert E Lee was their great uncle or something lmao pic.twitter.com/tjeXacEehE

— STAR MAN (@StarMusic214) October 10, 2017

First world problems because your high schools name got changed...

— Jose.πŸ€” (@joseOrtegaSA) October 10, 2017

me hearing the whining in this video pic.twitter.com/8XOnrnTE0L

— Che πŸ¦‹ (@CheReal85) October 10, 2017

What the What?!? pic.twitter.com/jacfeh5BSq

— Nou chire, RN πŸ‡­πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­πŸ‡Ή (@Nouchire2020) October 10, 2017

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— π•Ÿπ•’π•π••π•ͺπ•žπ•’π•£ πŸ¦‡ (@naldymarx) October 10, 2017

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