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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder. [/quote]
Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.[/quote]

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.[/quote]

No, it’s a FH issue.  Most of the historically segregated private schools in DC do NOT have this origin story:

“The school's origins date back to the state of Virginia's resistance to the Supreme Court of the United States' 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision holding that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. In 1956, the year of the school's founding, Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. declared a policy of Massive Resistance against compliance with Brown v. Board of Education,[3] and the Virginia Assembly enacted the Stanley Plan, a package of thirteen statutes designed to ensure Virginia's public schools remained segregated.[4] In 1959 the Fairfax County School Board approved tuition grants for 60 students to attend private schools and thereby avoid desegregated public schools.[1] Of those initial grants, 44 went to students attending the Flint Hill School.[1] Fairfax County Public School Assistant Superintendent George Pope remarked to the Washington Post, "We've just about put that school in business."[1]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Hill_School
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