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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]FCPS was going to call these schools Franconia HS and Munson Hill HS until they decided Lee and Stuart were better names to demonstrate their resistance to integration.[/quote]

Is there hard proof that this was the reason for the change to the Lee and Stuart names?  Are there minutes from the meetings that tell us this was the reason?  Is it possible that they were trying to keep the white students from fleeing the schools?  Do we know if there were threats to close all the public schools (like what happened in Prince Edward County)?  How do we know what the actual intentions were?  It may have been (most likely) a much more complicated scenario than we know.  Maybe keeping peace meant that they had to do something like name these schools the way they did. Maybe this olive branch kept Fairfax County from having the violence that occurred in other places (but not here).  We probably do not know the complete story, but the complete story may have a historical lesson for everyone.   
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Lots of speculation to try and make this sound more complicated than it is.  It's patently obvious the names were changed when they were in the late 1950s to what they are to demonstrate resistance to integration and make black students feel uncomfortable in a white school.  It wouldn't make it any better if Fairfax officials did it to suck up to bigger racists in Richmond controlling state money. Let's change the names now and be done with it.[/quote]

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