Flint Hill 9-12, opinions, experiences?
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Anonymous
Many DC privates predate the Civil Rights Movement/legal efforts to integrate. Some schools, like FH, were created in response to school integration—specifically to AVOID integration. |
Anonymous
It is well known that GDS was founded, in 1945, to be a racially integrated school. WIS was founded in 1966, and it educated Black students from around the world (especially those with francophone roots in Africa). |
Anonymous
No, it’s a FH issue. Most of the historically segregated private schools in DC do NOT have this origin story: “The school's origins date back to the state of Virginia's resistance to the Supreme Court of the United States' 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision holding that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. In 1956, the year of the school's founding, Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. declared a policy of Massive Resistance against compliance with Brown v. Board of Education,[3] and the Virginia Assembly enacted the Stanley Plan, a package of thirteen statutes designed to ensure Virginia's public schools remained segregated.[4] In 1959 the Fairfax County School Board approved tuition grants for 60 students to attend private schools and thereby avoid desegregated public schools.[1] Of those initial grants, 44 went to students attending the Flint Hill School.[1] Fairfax County Public School Assistant Superintendent George Pope remarked to the Washington Post, "We've just about put that school in business."[1]” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Hill_School |
Anonymous
Can you give some specifics? Is he an athlete/academic/both, did he already know some students there, is there any one thing that you can point to that has made his experience great. |
Anonymous
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I know we’re going off on a tangent but I find Burgundy Farm’s history as the first school to integrate in Virginia fascinating.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/06/15/a-lesson-in-tolerance/b5b06a1a-b992-4e5b-860b-be2444c76398/ |
Anonymous
Well there are still issues of racism per instagram’s black@gds page. |
Anonymous
GDS was proactively integrationist, right? |
Anonymous
Now that’s history that Burgundy Farm can be proud! FH…not so much. Btw, Richard Fitzhugh’s brother, Naylor, is quite accomplished. He was one of the first AA to graduate from Harvard Business School, and he’s credited with creating the concept of target marketing. |
Anonymous
Racism, like many things, isn’t binary. It exists on a continuum. Some institutions/people/places are more or less racist than others. And some institutions, like GDS, are willing to examine themselves and make an effort to do better. Whatever you say about GDS, it’s founders were on the right side of history. FH will forever have to evade/explain away/confront its ugly racist origin. |
Anonymous
YES! It was founded in 1945 as an integrated school. |
Anonymous
Maybe so, but let’s be honest here. There were very few Black kids at GDS, much less than the were in the DCPS the GDS students would have been zoned to attend, and many of the students were there so they didn’t have to interact with the Black kids in the public schools. |
Anonymous
There are/were fewer children (of any race) who attend private vs. public school in this country becuase...it costs money. In many cases, private school costs a lot of money and most Americans simply cannot afford the tuition. "M]any of the students were there so they didn’t have to interact with the Black kids in the public." How do you know the motivations of Black parents who sent their children to GDS in the 1940s and 50s? Were you a student at GDS at that time? What an aggressively ignorant and fact-free thing to say. You must be a FH parent. |
Anonymous
Not a FH parent, I just know a little about history and what was going on during the time. White families were leaving public schools in droves during that time because they didn’t want to be integrated. Private schools were in higher demand and schools like GDS couldn’t take all the families who didn’t want to intergrate with Blacks so many new independent schools popped up around the time FH was established. This is a fact and if you do a little research, you will understand. |
Anonymous
“Private schools were in higher demand and schools like GDS couldn’t take all the families who didn’t want to intergrate with Blacks so many new independent schools popped up around the time FH was established.” Why would families that didn’t want to integrate with Blacks want to attend GDS…an intentionally racially integrated school? You sound stupid, and you know nothing about this history. Back away from the keyboard. |
Anonymous
Because 1% or less Blacks is the type of integration they were content with and opposed to integrating with higher numbers. |