Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

He owned over 100 slaves. Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.

Can we learn from the past rather than try to change the past? This is stupid.

This is the most absurd argument ever. Changing a school name so that it doesn't honor a slaveholder is not changing the past! It's learning from the past and changing out actions now and we realize, oh, that's really not cool to honor that person this way!! I can't understand people who think changing the name of a random high school suddenly erases that person from history!

The high school isn't named to honor a slaveholder. How clueless are you?

No wonder we can't have discussions anymore when people spout nonsense like that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

He owned over 100 slaves. Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.

Can we learn from the past rather than try to change the past? This is stupid.

This is the most absurd argument ever. Changing a school name so that it doesn't honor a slaveholder is not changing the past! It's learning from the past and changing out actions now and we realize, oh, that's really not cool to honor that person this way!! I can't understand people who think changing the name of a random high school suddenly erases that person from history!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

He owned over 100 slaves. Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.

Can we learn from the past rather than try to change the past? This is stupid.

I don't know. I heard Mary Ellen Henderson had flatulence in her later years. Better rename that school, too.

Nothing makes me feel happier than seeing the name of a slave owner on a public school, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

He owned over 100 slaves. Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.

... Like George Washington?

Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which the US Bill of Rights was based upon. Seems like a keeper to me. But what do I know?

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

He owned over 100 slaves. Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

Because we can only name high schools these days for saints if we name them for people and there are very few human saints.

I don’t think even the saints are good enough these days. See San Francisco and Abraham Lincoln.

yes- they are terrible. Renaming the school is stupid, but not worth agonizing over. The only acceptable name is West End.

Anonymous wrote:Why not just call it Falls Church City HS ?

There’s already a Falls Church HS.

Anonymous wrote:Why are we renaming George mason?

Because we can only name high schools these days for saints if we name them for people and there are very few human saints.

Why are we renaming George mason?

Why not just call it Falls Church City HS ?

"George Mason" wasn't exactly unique and exciting. Nothing wrong with a generic high school name.

The five recommendations for renaming George Mason HS are terrible.

Meridian High School
Metropolitan High School
Metro View High School
Tinner Hill High School
West End High School

Meridian, Metropolitan, Metro View, and West End are lame and generic. Yeah, let's rename the high school over a nearby Metro station in another jurisdiction.

And Tinner Hill is performative nonsense. FCC kicked out its Black residents and left them to the county to educate. Now FCC wants to honor the Tinner family. What a joke.