FCC schools renaming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL that living in FCC for 12 years is "new" when this is the DC area and so many people moving in and out, foreign service, etc and that the new vs old mentality is the problem. Ask the mid west how that's working out for them.

I don’t think it’s a new vs. old mentality. I am the poster above you. I think it is a mentality that anyone who disagrees with a person is wrong and can be insulted. I’m also in FCC and have been here for 15 years so I am fairly new by that person’s standards. I don’t agree with a lot of people and how they behave now. This is no longer a welcoming community where diversity is celebrated and embraced. Which is ironic, because people like to shout about diversity all of the time. They are only concerned with the color of your skin and making sure we have included everyone. Differences in opinion, especially when it comes to politics, are not welcome. I would not have moved here 15 years ago if I had a crystal ball.

It's performative wokeness. Everyone else sees it for that, and nothing more.

Real contrition would involve FCC reaching out to Fairfax County and offering to re-incorporate the lower-income areas that FCC disposed of many decades ago when they didn't want Black people living in their town and having voting rights or children to educate.

Alternatively, FCC should make a large, voluntary payment to the schools in the Falls Church HS pyramid to reflect the additional expenses that the county incurred over the years due to that decision.

Wow...I had no idea - is there a good map of the old FCC boundaries? I can't seem to find it.

[Anonymous]

I could be wrong but I don't think a map of "old FCC" boundaries exists because they literally drew the boundaries when they created the "little city." Old FCC is just all of Falls Church, right?

[Anonymous]

Here's the history via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falls_Church

Note this language:
Nonetheless, Falls Church opted to leave Fairfax County and form an independent city in 1948. Its reasons were simple: town residents valued education, and wanted better schools with as few blacks as possible. Fairfax County, then very rural, was not keen to devote more money to improve its schools. Almost immediately after municipal independence in 1958 a modernization and rebuilding program was launched for the city's schools, and music and arts programs were started. Schools remain a fundamental and foundational principle in Falls Church today.[52]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL that living in FCC for 12 years is "new" when this is the DC area and so many people moving in and out, foreign service, etc and that the new vs old mentality is the problem. Ask the mid west how that's working out for them.

Do you live in this area? There is definitely a divide in my neighborhood between old timers and new families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL that living in FCC for 12 years is "new" when this is the DC area and so many people moving in and out, foreign service, etc and that the new vs old mentality is the problem. Ask the mid west how that's working out for them.

Do you live in this area? There is definitely a divide in my neighborhood between old timers and new families.

Me again, I should say that, having lived here 8 years, we're a "new" family. We get a little love from the neighbors though because we only renovated our house, we didn't tear it down and build a huge house, LOL.

[Anonymous]

For all the “new” vs “old” I haven’t heard too many of my elder neighbors complain when their houses sell for $1M when they’re ready to retire. That’s the trade off of getting young people— you will get more young-people ideas. AND you’ll get people to invest in your schools and parks and keep your housing value high. If you only want the ideas of the over 50’s, there are retirement homes for that.

My experience of a Falls Church neighborhood is my elderly neighbors want to coo over my baby in her stroller more than they want to discuss a school their kids haven’t been in on decades that my daughter won’t set food in for 13 years. The one time I was asked I said I would hate if she went to a school named for someone who vehemently opposed women’s suffrage in the 20s, for example, and my neighbor who is a very proud “Feminine Mystique Era” feminist talked my ear off about how much she loved the ERA. There’s plenty of cross generational accord.

[Anonymous]

If it ain’t woke, it’s broke!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL that living in FCC for 12 years is "new" when this is the DC area and so many people moving in and out, foreign service, etc and that the new vs old mentality is the problem. Ask the mid west how that's working out for them.

Do you live in this area? There is definitely a divide in my neighborhood between old timers and new families.

I'm the PP and yes, I live here and have since 1997, and since 2004 in Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

I love it when tiny white towns try to do completely insignificant things in an attempt to look like they support POC.