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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about FCCPS? [/quote]

FCCPS was number one actually.[/quote]

That's what happens when you retrocede the poor, minority part of the city to the surrounding county, and then establish a separate school system.

http://fallschurchtimes.com/24617/man-about-town-shooting-down-some-school-myths/[/quote]

To the FCC haters.  The retrocession of the black part of the Town of Falls Church called South Falls Church took place in the 1870's in Jim Crow era Virginia filled with confederate war veterans and supporters.  The creation of the City of Falls Church in 1948, by a population of mostly military and New Deal professionals, didn't retrocede anything.  In fact, parts of east side of the Town of Falls Church didn't want to be part of the new city and remained part of Arlington or Fairfax County.  They wanted more control of the schools in an era when there was a population boom in Fairfax County and the school district had to devote a lot of resources to build new schools far away from the Town of Falls Church.  In essence, the power center of Fairfax County was changing and they felt they no longer had any control after being the main population center for a century.  There were no effort to carve out any minority neighborhoods because they had already been carved out 70 years prior.

Not to say the 1940's era City of Falls Church were a bunch of angels, as the whole state of Virginia's public schools were segregated until the 1960's with Arlington leading the charge for desegregation and the other jurisdictions dragging their feet.    [/quote]

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