 So I'm here with Kayla Wilson and Kayla, you're gonna be a senior at Lee High School this year, right? Yeah, and You just started a petition at change.org. Tell me about What that petition says and why you did it? Well, I started the petition when Pooley and Castro called for the renaming of my high school Robert E. Lee and I didn't know that we could rename until he said so. So now that I know I wanted the renaming and when the NEIZ spokeswoman said they weren't considering changing it because they didn't have any complaints. I wanted to create this petition to show that people do have complaints and they wanted to change. Yeah, and then I think I heard it on Express News where they mentioned that this isn't the only school that was called to call to rename. It was also Jefferson, Jefferson Davis Middle School, which is now like Stonewalls Jackson Davis. So if they, you know, if they can change and that was a Confederate general that was named for that school and they named that a civil rights leader. So I thought well, why don't we just like change the name to George W. Lee who was also a civil rights leader. So I thought that would be best. And the last name would stay the same just like it did with the middle school? Yeah, it would be easier transition. And I remember reading about him and I remember how much he did for the South. He was the first one to register to vote in Mississippi and he did a lot for for civil rights in the South and Mississippi. So I thought that would be best. And easier transition for Lee. So now everything will be changed at that school. You started this petition and it's been about ten days now since you started it and you're up to how many signatures? Right now, I think it's like 2,970 something, almost 3,000. Almost 3,000 signatures. That's amazing, that's amazing. I don't think it'll get that far. Yeah, and you've gotten some responses from across the country too, right? Yeah, somebody else? Yeah, I've gotten responses from other people who also are calling to rename their schools that are also named after confederate generals and leaders and I've gotten like responses from alumni's and students who want to see the change and you know, so it's not it's not just people from outside. It's also a lot of people in San Antonio. What kind of reactions have you gotten from your classmates? I've gotten people who think that I don't know my history or I why would I care about them now, but I've also gotten a lot of people who agree with me and they wouldn't mind seeing a change and they feel like there's some people who are more appropriate to honor and name a school by, so, but most people who have disagreed with me have openly done it on Twitter, but people have messaged me who are in my class and alumni's, actually recent alumni's and older alumni's who agreed with me too, so. Well, I mean, let's let's get to the point. I mean you say it in your petition, but what's what's the reason to change the name? Robert E. Lee was a general of the Confederacy who you know did an act of treason and I know a lot of people say that he like did it for his state like he didn't want to fight for it, but he could have like, you know, quit the military altogether, but now he decided to fight for for the Confederacy against America and the Confederacy they were fighting for their right to keep slavery, to own human beings, and I don't think we should celebrate someone like that. I mean, I know he was part of our history, but it's not a history that we should be proud of. It was an act of treason. It was it was for something terrible for incitement of human beings and that's something we should never never celebrate. Did you call the school and say I want to change the name? The first thing I did was contact my principal and actually when I did she emailed me back I was expecting like maybe like, oh, thank you for you know, your concern or you know something on those lines, but she like emailed me back and like kind of gave me a history lesson and said she doesn't feel like the name should be changed and she's not gonna consider it. Lee was a leaf offer his state. He was a good general. He's someone that we should remember and like and I never said we should forget him in my petition because I sent her my petition so I mean, I hope I'm hoping that she read it. I also did email the board members. I asked them when the board meeting was gonna be and I told them about my petition and they responded a little bit more respectfully. They said, you know, thank you for your concern. So when is the next board meeting? The next board meeting will be on August 10th. So and and now you're asking people to sign the petition but you're also asking them to sign the board meeting? Yeah, yeah, and yeah, it's you know, especially you know people in you know, especially people San Antonio alumni to come and support. So they can know like because right now the board is saying they're it's not in their agenda to change it and I think if we have as much people as possible come to support they'll reconsider changing the name. I have to say that before we started this conversation just now just it's been within less than an hour ago that you were watching live on CNN on your phone as they took the Confederate battle flag down from the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, that's that's amazing. I mean, it's sad that it had to take nine lives for them to realize the flag should come down, but I'm glad that it's finally coming down.