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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what renaming JEB Stuart has to do with the rest of this.[/quote]

Hypocrisy.  Willing to spend money to change the name of a school because it "sends a message" but does nothing to help the students.  In other words, it is money wasted-but is symbolic and gets publicity for the cause.

SB members who claim to be liberal have always done this.  Kathy Smith brought in poor kids to her affluent neighborhood elementary in order to get full day K.  As soon as the whole county got full day K, she kicked the poor kids out and sent them to an area that did not vote for her.

Stu Gibson--Hynes predecessor--pushed to get more affluent kids into South Lakes--but refused to move his liberal supporters from North Reston to South Lakes.

Janie Strauss, though, is the worst offender.  Protect affluent neighborhoods at all cost.[/quote]

I have no problem with and am fine with the decision to rename JEB Stuart HS.

I just wish that School Board members displayed the same courage when it came to matters that have a more direct impact on schools in FCPS.  It doesn't take much political capital to bash dead Confederates 150 years after the Civil War, but it requires real guts to adjust school boundaries in ways that displease wealthier people.

Given how outspoken Pat Hynes was about Stuart, you'd think she'd be objecting loudly to the plans to move Jackson students to Thoreau.  But she's been silent as a clam, and everything suggests she and other Democrats on the SB will hide behind a staff recommendation, even when that recommendation could not be more at odds with the "One Fairfax" resolution. [/quote]

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