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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think this board's priorities are ridiculous and that it pays more attention to fringe social issues than to managing the available resources soundly, so I'll be voting against this bond.[/quote]

So it's a "fringe" position not to want to venerate traitors who took up arms against the United States? See, I would have thought that the "fringe" position was the contrary one. Who knew that Confederate generals were such mainstream, popular figures these days![/quote]

This name change movement only started in 2015. Are you suggesting people were really venerating Confederate figures in 2010 or 1998? The fact is that people associated the school names more with the surrounding community and the schools' traditions than with the namesakes.

But, either way, I'd be less concerned with the SJW fixation on school names if the School Board could demonstrate that it was otherwise exercising prudent management of FCPS's resources - i.e., looking to use to available capacity at schools like Lee and Mount Vernon, accelerating the overdue renovation at Falls Church, and moving promptly to build a new high school in western Fairfax that might discourage the continued flight of higher income families to Loudoun. But instead we get lectures on how painful names like "Stuart" are to a handful of people from the likes of Ryan McElveen, along with capital spending projects that are arbitrary and will only aggravate existing disparities between schools (West Potomac vs. Mount Vernon, Madison vs. Marshall, etc.)

Vote NO if you want to send a strong message that FCPS needs to go back to the drawing board and come up with something better.[/quote]

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