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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCC is not diverse, if that matters to you. [/quote]

It does. I will definitely look more at that. I assume that includes the schools (i.e. they don't draw from nearby communities?)[/quote]

Correct - many years ago the then-town of Falls Church (which is now Falls Church City) redrew its borders to exclude the town's Black neighborhood to disenfranchise the Black residents and keep them from voting in local elections.  The area that was carved out is now part of Fairfax County, rather than Falls Church City, and is heavily Hispanic today.  The kids there go to Falls Church High (which is part of the Fairfax County schools) rather than to Meridian High (which is the Falls Church City high school).  [/quote]

OP in every thread about FCC this poster, or someone else I guess, always posts this information about FC from more than 60 years ago as if Arlington and Fairfax and other nearby areas of NoVa weren't also segregated and in no hurry to integrate.  Falls Church City has been a progressive city full of highly educated people for many decades now and the schools are currently 65% white and 35% minority.  That's not as diverse as many other schools but they are hardly trying to keep the city or the schools segregated, that's just ignorant and incorrect.[/quote]

+1. When pressed they admit it was in the 1940s and 1950s when all growing suburban towns did this. It’s a ridiculous assertion. I lived in McLean for 30 years and I’ve never heard of this allegation anywhere but here. By the same poster [/quote]

You’re mixing up different events.  The town of Falls Church kicked out its Black residents in the second half of the 19th century.  The town incorporated so it could operate its own schools in 1948.

No one claims people living in FCC today would make the same decisions. However, the demographics of FCC have been shaped by these historic events. And when FCC residents tout their schools and warn people away from nearby areas zoned to Falls Church HS in Fairfax County, they may be doing so without appreciating that the demographics of Meridian HS and Falls Church HS have been influenced by those same historic events.

For more on the historically Black neighborhood in Falls Church, see https://www.tinnerhill.org/[/quote]

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