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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/falls-church/debate-over-jeb-stuart-high-name-change-continues/476748538

Sounds like Ryan forgot that he voted in support of "Stuart"........[/quote]

No.  He voted in favor of getting rid of "J.E.B. Stuart" and allowing the community to decide whether "Stuart High School" without the initials was an acceptable "compromise" name.

It clearly isn't.  Over 80% of the votes were against "Stuart High School."  It would be ridiculous to make that the new name, and Ryan has correctly pointed that out.  [/quote]

You don't believe in rules do you?  Do you always want to change them every time you don't get the result you desire?

First, we were told we would go by a community vote.  The community voted by about 2/3 to keep Jeb Stuart.
Then, we were told we would form a committee.  Half of the Ad Hoc committee--the half from outside the community voted to change.  The other half--made up of community members--voted to keep Jeb Stuart.

Meanwhile, the slots to speak at SB meetings were manipulated in the early meetings to favor those who wanted change.

FOIA'd emails indicated that Evans had desired this change for sometime and worked with "changers"--many from outside the community.  FOIA also indicates that the "massive resistance" reason for the Jeb Stuart name was bogus.  Evans or Hynes made clear that the "massive resistance" reason was important to getting change.  And, even though it is indicated in the FOIA through minutes from old SB meetings that this was not the case, they kept citing that.

Again, the community voted early on that they wished to keep the name Jeb Stuart.
Evans and Hynes did not like that result, so they changed the rules.  Over and over again.

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I'm sorry that you've lost your mind.  You do know, for example, that the Ad Hoc Working Group never took any vote on keeping or changing the name of JEB Stuart.

And that Evans only worked with "changers" after she was contacted by current students at the school pushing for change.

And that the same School Board members who picked "JEB Stuart" as the name in 1958 previously had changed the name of an FCPS committee from the "Committee on Desegregation" to the "Segregation Committee" to appease segregationists, and then failed to engage in any outreach with the community before naming the school after a Confederate general.

And that county voters just overwhelmingly voted for a pro-change candidate, Karen Keys-Gammara, for a school board vacancy, defeating the Republican-endorsed candidate who criticized the board's decision.

I'm sure it's hard to carry around so much antagonism, combined with so little knowledge, but perhaps it's something you can work on after the board selects a new name in October.   [/quote]

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