Woodson Renaming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All renaming efforts are pointless.

The money could be better spent elsewhere.

At this point, every school should just be named after a kind of tree, forest, wood, or meadow. With an animal for a mascot.
Forest Grove HS Bobcats
Meadow Wood HS Cougars
Poplar Glen HS Bears
Twin Pines HS Hawks
Shady Oak HS Tigers……

Flora and fauna never offend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.

As a transplant, I always assumed Woodson HS was named after president Woodrow Wilson, combining his first and last name into one single name.

WOODrow + wilSON = woodson.

Now I feel silly

I’ve lived here for 20 years and thought the same, lol! TIL…

+2
You aren’t alone.
And I bet no one who has attended thi school or played in a sporting event against this school for the past 25 years has even given it that much thought until some group of activists decided to dig up the history of the school’s namesake and “educate” people about it to get them all riled up.

I totally get not wanting to go to “Hitler High” but this is not that.
I find it hard to believe that anyone even knew or cared who this Woodson fellow was, where the name came from, or what his views on anything were until they were told to care and told to be offended. It’s exhausting. And just one more example of the grandstanding that this school board does to try to make themselves appear politically noble rather focus in actual academic improvement of our schools.

[Anonymous]

There are 3 questions that should be asked of all school board candidates.

1. Do you have children?
2. If so, how old are they?
3. Where do/did they attend school?

We need candidates who are invested in FCPS by having children currently in the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coming here to point out - for the FCCPS haters that we were second behind Arlington to voluntarily integrate and renamed our schools 2 years ago.

Go back a little farther to find out why it was so easy to integrate in FCC after it cut out all minority neighborhoods earlier in its history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh.

As a transplant, I always assumed Woodson HS was named after president Woodrow Wilson, combining his first and last name into one single name.

WOODrow + wilSON = woodson.

Now I feel silly

I’ve lived here for 20 years and thought the same, lol! TIL…

+2
You aren’t alone.
And I bet no one who has attended thi school or played in a sporting event against this school for the past 25 years has even given it that much thought until some group of activists decided to dig up the history of the school’s namesake and “educate” people about it to get them all riled up.

I totally get not wanting to go to “Hitler High” but this is not that.
I find it hard to believe that anyone even knew or cared who this Woodson fellow was, where the name came from, or what his views on anything were until they were told to care and told to be offended. It’s exhausting. And just one more example of the grandstanding that this school board does to try to make themselves appear politically noble rather focus in actual academic improvement of our schools.

A lot of the students have been lobbying for this change in recent years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 3 questions that should be asked of all school board candidates.

1. Do you have children?
2. If so, how old are they?
3. Where do/did they attend school?

We need candidates who are invested in FCPS by having children currently in the system.

This should already be public info. Post the answers.

[Anonymous]

How was the parent meeting this evening? I had planned to go but got stuck at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All renaming efforts are pointless.

The money could be better spent elsewhere.

$500,000 to $1,000,000 per school. That is the cost to demand a school; money straight out of the FCPS. Again,

- per school.

This school board has prioritized renaming over a dozen schools. All that money and time wasted on meaningless virtue-signaling, when they could have been focusing on maintaining or even improving academics.

They chose to ignore academics.

Time to vote them all out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see it now: Equity High

Little River High would be better. Or is it Main Street there? Main High School?

Little River is a quaint name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coming here to point out - for the FCCPS haters that we were second behind Arlington to voluntarily integrate and renamed our schools 2 years ago.

I see this post was revived and that’s not how it was. There was a survey and the overwhelmingly majority of the community, staff and students voted to not rename the schools in FCCPS 2 years ago. The school board did it anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodson opposed desegregation and delayed integrating FCPS. Why should he be honored with his name on a school?

Because we are not renaming our country’s name from USA to something else. It was under the same name, USA, that carried out the slavery. It’s unfortunate history. Folks need to move on.

[Anonymous]

We should name everything like it’s a computer program:
School_1, School_2, School_3, etc.
County_1, County_2, etc.
Airport_1, Airport_2, etc.
Library_1, Library_2, etc.

There! I hope that doesn’t offend anyone.

[Anonymous]

Public Hearing has been scheduled for tomorrow (10/10)

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=CWBRZV700A1B

[Anonymous]

What happened at the meeting today

[Anonymous]

At the meeting today, they noted that the public had narrowly voted against the name change. Therefore, the board voted to go forward with the name change, although they did not decide between renaming the school "Woodson" or "CG Woodson".