FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??

[Anonymous]

They should go with Barack Obama High School. Watching the maga meltdown would be well worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would vote for Floris High School.

Why?

Because that name is not onlu geographical but also HISTORICAL.

There used to be a vocational (agricultral) high school in Frying Pan Farm, named Floris Vocational High School.

motto of Floris Vocational High School's graduating class of 1925 was "On Life's Highway." Their class colors were white and green and, suitably, their class flower was the white rose.

All of this information is documented on a commencement invitation that is part of the Fairfax County Park Authority's Museum Collection.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/artifacts/floris-vocational-commencement

Good suggestion. Better than Discovery.

"Floris Falcons" nod to Airport and Air and Space Museum

Floris Falcons vs South Lakes Seahawks would be a good series.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excited to see the $100,000 study FCPS commissions for new name but still tell teachers in classroom there is no additional money to be found to help them

LOL!

When Oak Hill Post Office was opened, the community voted on the name and chose Oak Hill. The post office is one mile from the new high school.

The name Oak Hill is okay but to me it’s too similar to “Oakton.”

By the way, the Oak Hill area was originally called “Floris” and before that “Frying Pan.”

The Fairfax County Public School historians say that by the late 1800s, the Frying Pan village had become a summer retreat for Washingtonians. Local tradition said that a boarding house guest thought the community should have a more genteel sounding name. According a Floris School history video, “In 1892 the village and its post office were re-named Floris, which means flower in Latin.”

https://patch.com/virginia/herndon/remembering-herndons-history-who-named-frying-pan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would vote for Floris High School.

Why?

Because that name is not onlu geographical but also HISTORICAL.

There used to be a vocational (agricultral) high school in Frying Pan Farm, named Floris Vocational High School.

motto of Floris Vocational High School's graduating class of 1925 was "On Life's Highway." Their class colors were white and green and, suitably, their class flower was the white rose.

All of this information is documented on a commencement invitation that is part of the Fairfax County Park Authority's Museum Collection.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/artifacts/floris-vocational-commencement

Good suggestion. Better than Discovery.

"Floris Falcons" nod to Airport and Air and Space Museum

Floris Falcons vs South Lakes Seahawks would be a good series.

+1

[Anonymous]

I like Floris or Oak Hill. There is an Oakton ES and an Oakton HS, so there is precedence in naming an ES and a HS the same thing.

[Anonymous]

If you name it Oak Hill HS, gonna be hard to not have Oak Hill ES go there as some have suggested on here.

[Anonymous]

Oak Hill sounds too much like Oakton.

Obama HS or Floris HS would get my vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill sounds too much like Oakton.

Obama HS or Floris HS would get my vote.

No people names. especially no living people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you name it Oak Hill HS, gonna be hard to not have Oak Hill ES go there as some have suggested on here.

I think it's a given that Oak Hill ES will go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill sounds too much like Oakton.

Obama HS or Floris HS would get my vote.

No people names. especially no living people

Is that an FCPS rule?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you name it Oak Hill HS, gonna be hard to not have Oak Hill ES go there as some have suggested on here.

Part of Hayfield ES goes to Edison HS, not Hayfield SS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill sounds too much like Oakton.

Obama HS or Floris HS would get my vote.

No people names. especially no living people

Is that an FCPS rule?

Colin Powell was still alive when Colin Powell ES opened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill sounds too much like Oakton.

Obama HS or Floris HS would get my vote.

No people names. especially no living people

Is that an FCPS rule?

Colin Powell was still alive when Colin Powell ES opened.

Great, sounds like a school named after Obama should not be problematic. Great suggestion.

[Anonymous]

It's common sense not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill sounds too much like Oakton.

Obama HS or Floris HS would get my vote.

No people names. especially no living people

Is that an FCPS rule?

Colin Powell was still alive when Colin Powell ES opened.

It is still not a good policy to name it after a person still alive.
Especially, when he is running ads for a candidate for governor.