“It was very upsetting,” Deep Sran, founder of the Loudoun School for the Gifted, which owns the land on which the school house stands, told the Guardian. The timing of this attack is revealing.”As part of a campus expansion, the Loudoun School for the Gifted plans to restore the historic school house, which was open from 1892 to around 1957. The building had been untouched for decades, but the restoration project has drawn fresh attention, Sran told the Washington Post. He said the attack on the school house was reprehensible. A former pupil of Ashburn Colored School, Louise Winzor Thomas, wrote on the Loudoun school website that in the 1950s she and her siblings had to walk many miles to reach the school house.

Source: The Guardian October 03, 2016 09:56 UTC