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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:08 So you think spending on a name change is more important than restoring the teacher positions that are being eliminated at that same school?[/quote]

If the students feel that strongly about it, and given the history of Stuart himself and the timing of the decision to name the HS that, it's very possible that they do, then I'm not going to tell them no.  [/quote]

What about the students and parents that want teachers instead? Or the fact that the school board isn't even looking into [b]private money for this change[/b]? How strongly can they really be about it if they aren't willing to raise any funds?[/quote]

Is that even an option?  I know some districts are happy to allow [b]rich parents or wealthy PTAs to provide funds[/b] for school services including paying for additional teachers, but that's prohibited in FCPS, rightly IMO.  [/quote]

Why should poor folks be forced to pay when rich folks are willing to?  Spite?

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Because that is not what happens.  What happens is you end up with a two-tiered system, where the rich areas end up with smaller class sizes, newer schools, etc.  Instead, the most that can be done is to improve the facilities:  better play ground, better computers, etc.[/quote]

I don't know what you're talking about. Poorer schools are now receiving about 3 times the amount that wealthy schools are receiving. Maybe it's justified, but it is an imbalance in the opposite way you describe even though wealthy schools are also the ones paying higher taxes. In addition, the school board regularly seems to try to segregate poor and wealthy students for what reasons I don't understand. The move Wakefield from Annandale to Woodson was unnecessary and created a further imbalance between those two high schools. They continue to allow or even encourage gerrymandering to produce school boundaries of unequal personal wealth.[/quote]

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