New Name for JEB Stuart HS - 9/16 Community Vote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$14,667.04 as of 10:37 a.m. on Nov 8.

Bruce and Julianne need to donate--or have they already? What about all the people that the "changer" ad hoc committee said would come forward?


We are up to how many band uniforms? I doubt that this amount would pay for the redone football helmets.

Where is the racist school board? Their descendants? They should be chipping in first.

So, you are saying that people should be responsible for their ancestors? Please explain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$14,667.04 as of 10:37 a.m. on Nov 8.

Bruce and Julianne need to donate--or have they already? What about all the people that the "changer" ad hoc committee said would come forward?


We are up to how many band uniforms? I doubt that this amount would pay for the redone football helmets.

Where is the racist school board? Their descendants? They should be chipping in first.

So, you are saying that people should be responsible for their ancestors? Please explain.

Don't fall for this. I think the pp is just trying to stoke the flames, not someone who really thinks this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$14,667.04 as of 10:37 a.m. on Nov 8.

Bruce and Julianne need to donate--or have they already? What about all the people that the "changer" ad hoc committee said would come forward?


We are up to how many band uniforms? I doubt that this amount would pay for the redone football helmets.

Where is the racist school board? Their descendants? They should be chipping in first.

So, you are saying that people should be responsible for their ancestors? Please explain.

which pp are you referring to?

Don't fall for this. I think the pp is just trying to stoke the flames, not someone who really thinks this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The donations have been stagnant since Friday. Does anyone know how often it is updated? Are the donations not coming or are they just slow to update the total?

They were updating the information towards the end of the day during the school week. Did you expect someone to come in over the weekend?

The Keepers are a bit hyper when it comes to the donations. Ultimately, it seems like most don't want people to donate because they'd rather complain about how much it will cost everyone else.

So donate $1 and see if it automatically updates. Maybe Oprah will donate or the Obamas or the Clintons or anybody so my retired self doesn't have to pay for it. My dead ancestors fought for the Union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Residents of the Stuart community may vote on a new name for JEB Stuart HS on 9/16 from 10-6. Below are three candidates for a new name for Stuart worth considering and aligned with the "One Fairfax" policy adopted by the Board of Supervisors and FCPS.

Barbara Rose Johns

Barbara Rose Johns was just 16 when she used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause to help bring righteous change to America.

After years of frustration with inadequate facilities at her segregated school, she took her concerns to a teacher who responded by asking her to “… do something about it.” She was 16 when she organized a protest against poor conditions at her segregated Virginia school. This led to the first lawsuit against segregation, and became one of five cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka when it declared segregation unconstitutional.

She was a typical, quiet student before she decided something had to be done for the good of her education, and the education of her classmates. Her movement was student-led, nonviolent, and changed the course of history!

She represents the IB student values: She was an Inquirer, a Thinker, a Communicator — Principled, Open-minded, Knowledgeable, Caring, Balanced, Reflective, and a Risk Taker!

Col. Louis G. Mendez

Louis Mendez was of Mexican- and Native-American ancestry. Coming from a poor family, he graduated at the top of his high school class and received an appointment to West Point, one of the very few minority students so honored in that era.

As a leader in the 82nd Airborne, Col. Mendez landed in Normandy in 1944. Leading his soldiers behind enemy lines, he liberated the French village Pretot from Nazi occupation and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for those actions. Mendez earned a master’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University. After retiring from the Army, he served as the first director of the Right to Read program, the first nation-wide program to address childhood illiteracy in the United States at the early Department of Education. Living in Lake Barcroft for over 40 years, 7 of his kids went to Stuart.

Louis Mendez’s life of service inspires future students at a school as diverse as Stuart to study our Nation’s full history – one that recognizes the contributions of all Americans.

Justice Thurgood Marshall

“Inscribed above the front entrance to the Supreme Court building are the words ‘Equal justice under law.’ Surely no individual did more to make these words a reality than Thurgood Marshall.” — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

Thurgood Marshall led the legal team that won the enormously significant Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka lawsuit in 1954, bringing about desegregation of the nation’s public schools. Marshall won 29 out of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court.

He was appointed by President Kennedy to serve on the United States Court of Appeals. He was appointed as the Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Johnson later nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in 1967, where he served for 24 years as the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

He lived in the J.E.B. Stuart High School district for 23 years; his widow still lives in the neighborhood.

He left a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

All minorities? Is this what Fairfax County has come to? Pandering?

[Anonymous]

PP at 21:03: So, 42 pages [i]into this thread, and you just now realize the whole discussion involved names of, gasp!, minorities?
Please go back to sleep, Rip Van Winkle. This whole discussion passed you by many posts, pages and weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

All minorities? Is this what Fairfax County has come to? Pandering?

Mr. Moon is now on record that he wants a school named after a Korean American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't understand how it costs $1 million for new signs and uniforms? What am I missing here?

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Generally, uniforms, signs, etc, are replaced on a revolving calendar-and, as needed. However, when you have to replace everything at once, it is very expensive-like a new school.

Turf fields, scoreboards, uniforms and sports equipment, and signs, signs, and more signs. Painting, etc.

There are lots of signs in schools that use the school name. Football uniforms are very expensive--and remember, each kid needs two jerseys. This is true for pretty much all the sports. Wrestling mats, etc. Those marquee signs do not come cheap and neither do scoreboards. This does not take into consideration all the man hours to design and change logos, stationary, transcripts, etc. Books need to be restamped--so there will be a large purchase of things like rubber stamps--those are not cheap either. Not only that, but someone has to perform the labor.
There will also be additional administrative needs with transcripts, etc. On and on and on.

There are also a couple of street signs on Rt. 7 that will either need to be changed or removed. Both activities cost money.
And there are probably other places in the community where the name has to be changed as well. It's not just jersey's and band uniforms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't understand how it costs $1 million for new signs and uniforms? What am I missing here?

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Generally, uniforms, signs, etc, are replaced on a revolving calendar-and, as needed. However, when you have to replace everything at once, it is very expensive-like a new school.

Turf fields, scoreboards, uniforms and sports equipment, and signs, signs, and more signs. Painting, etc.

There are lots of signs in schools that use the school name. Football uniforms are very expensive--and remember, each kid needs two jerseys. This is true for pretty much all the sports. Wrestling mats, etc. Those marquee signs do not come cheap and neither do scoreboards. This does not take into consideration all the man hours to design and change logos, stationary, transcripts, etc. Books need to be restamped--so there will be a large purchase of things like rubber stamps--those are not cheap either. Not only that, but someone has to perform the labor.
There will also be additional administrative needs with transcripts, etc. On and on and on.

There are also a couple of street signs on Rt. 7 that will either need to be changed or removed. Both activities cost money.
And there are probably other places in the community where the name has to be changed as well. It's not just jersey's and band uniforms.

Wow. Two street signs, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Residents of the Stuart community may vote on a new name for JEB Stuart HS on 9/16 from 10-6. Below are three candidates for a new name for Stuart worth considering and aligned with the "One Fairfax" policy adopted by the Board of Supervisors and FCPS.

Barbara Rose Johns

Barbara Rose Johns was just 16 when she used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause to help bring righteous change to America.

After years of frustration with inadequate facilities at her segregated school, she took her concerns to a teacher who responded by asking her to “… do something about it.” She was 16 when she organized a protest against poor conditions at her segregated Virginia school. This led to the first lawsuit against segregation, and became one of five cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka when it declared segregation unconstitutional.

She was a typical, quiet student before she decided something had to be done for the good of her education, and the education of her classmates. Her movement was student-led, nonviolent, and changed the course of history!

She represents the IB student values: She was an Inquirer, a Thinker, a Communicator — Principled, Open-minded, Knowledgeable, Caring, Balanced, Reflective, and a Risk Taker!

Col. Louis G. Mendez

Louis Mendez was of Mexican- and Native-American ancestry. Coming from a poor family, he graduated at the top of his high school class and received an appointment to West Point, one of the very few minority students so honored in that era.

As a leader in the 82nd Airborne, Col. Mendez landed in Normandy in 1944. Leading his soldiers behind enemy lines, he liberated the French village Pretot from Nazi occupation and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for those actions. Mendez earned a master’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University. After retiring from the Army, he served as the first director of the Right to Read program, the first nation-wide program to address childhood illiteracy in the United States at the early Department of Education. Living in Lake Barcroft for over 40 years, 7 of his kids went to Stuart.

Louis Mendez’s life of service inspires future students at a school as diverse as Stuart to study our Nation’s full history – one that recognizes the contributions of all Americans.

Justice Thurgood Marshall

“Inscribed above the front entrance to the Supreme Court building are the words ‘Equal justice under law.’ Surely no individual did more to make these words a reality than Thurgood Marshall.” — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

Thurgood Marshall led the legal team that won the enormously significant Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka lawsuit in 1954, bringing about desegregation of the nation’s public schools. Marshall won 29 out of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court.

He was appointed by President Kennedy to serve on the United States Court of Appeals. He was appointed as the Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Johnson later nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in 1967, where he served for 24 years as the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

He lived in the J.E.B. Stuart High School district for 23 years; his widow still lives in the neighborhood.

He left a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

All minorities? Is this what Fairfax County has come to? Pandering?

I believe the word you are looking for is "Acknowledging." "Recognizing" and "Respecting," both in short supply in Keeper circles, also come to mind.

[Anonymous]

It seems like the donations have stalled at under $15,000. Bruce Cohen and Julianne Moore don't appear to have given a dime. Pathetic Hollywood trash.

[Anonymous]

11/10: total to date--$14,742.04

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the donations have stalled at under $15,000. Bruce Cohen and Julianne Moore don't appear to have given a dime. Pathetic Hollywood trash.

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How about you take the time you're now spending on tracking donations and spend it more productively? You can find these celebrities' agents online and tell them about the opportunity to donate. But I suspect you'd rather just keep watching that donation total and seething that the keepers lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the donations have stalled at under $15,000. Bruce Cohen and Julianne Moore don't appear to have given a dime. Pathetic Hollywood trash.

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How about you take the time you're now spending on tracking donations and spend it more productively? You can find these celebrities' agents online and tell them about the opportunity to donate. But I suspect you'd rather just keep watching that donation total and seething that the keepers lost.

They can't even crack $15,000? That's just pathetic. I can understand why having Cohen's and Moore's hypocrisy and lack of financial support called out bothers you so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the donations have stalled at under $15,000. Bruce Cohen and Julianne Moore don't appear to have given a dime. Pathetic Hollywood trash.

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How about you take the time you're now spending on tracking donations and spend it more productively? You can find these celebrities' agents online and tell them about the opportunity to donate. But I suspect you'd rather just keep watching that donation total and seething that the keepers lost.

They can't even crack $15,000? That's just pathetic. I can understand why having Cohen's and Moore's hypocrisy and lack of financial support called out bothers you so much.

Yeah. Maybe, they have already donated?