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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing says “white supremacy” more loudly than “every school needs a certain percentage of white children to be good.”[/quote]

Not necessarily. If you have a school system runs by whites primarily for the benefit of white children, then having white kids in your school may be necessary to ensure it gets appropriate resources and attention.

There was a reason why “separate but equal” was invalidated.  The NAACP didn’t challenge it because they thought White children were superior. They challenged it because they knew Black schools were inferior. [/quote]

So you need the racist white government which is against poc to make racist white peoples go to school with poc so the racist white peoples will be forced to give poc the same quality.  Makes sense, especially these days.

[b]It should be easy enough in Fairfax county with our internet and smart phones to find out where the school board and gatehouse are failing to spend as much per pupil and to provide the “not white enough” schools with the same maintenance, infrastructure etc. as the “white enough to care about” schools.[/b]

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Falls Church HS is finally getting completely renovated for the first time ever (since the school moved to its current location into a repurposed junior high school in the 1960s). The City of Falls Church forced the high school to relocate when the city created its own separate school district for its own affluent population separate from Fairfax County and the adjacent historic African American community. [/quote]

Falls Church HS opened in 1959 as Whittier Intermediate and became Falls Church HS in 1967 when the City of Falls Church forced FCPS to move high school students out of FCC.

It was expanded in 1988 and renovated in 1989.

So if you say it was not "completely renovated," the same can be said for other schools like Annandale, Justice, McLean, and Madison that were built in the 1950s and "renovated" before FCPS started spending more money on renovations. Falls Church's renovation lagged because the renovation queue created in 2008 prioritized renovations of schools that were at or above capacity and Falls Church was below capacity in 2008 (and remained below capacity until 2017).  Now they plan to expand it to 2500 seats even though they are only projecting an enrollment of 1982 kids by 2026.  It is pretty obvious who is going to get moved there when that renovation is finished. [/quote]

Interesting. So the overhauled Falls Church will solve the overcrowding at McLean HS. The neighborhoods adjacent to Lee Hwy and the City of Falls Church would likely be sent to Falls Church. Then there would be no need for an addition at McLean. But how would that help demographics. [/quote]

What do you mean by "help demographics"? [/quote]

The low income apartments would then go to the renovated and enlarged Falls Church High School instead of McLean. I suppose it's debatable if that is a positive or negative outcome for the demographics between schools. [/quote]

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