a new era Wrote:
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"the School Board work session was all day
yesterday - there's a new recognition by the Board
of the 'will of the people'...the School Board can get Staff to implement...
Thanks for this post, lots of insight. Interesting to me because HRC won Fairfax County, had she not, the talk would be Fairfax County was just too conservative….there would have been no reflection.
"McElveen was subdued and noted that the community voted against teacher salaries..."
Not me Ryan…I voted directly against the board. The reasons why?
PAT HYNES for publicly trashing local small business who was already giving to the schools: As said before she is welcome to disagree but she should have kept her mouth shut. They had the right to protect their business.
RYAN McELVEEN for his outright lie, a Ryan McElveen Quote….
"I spent the better part of last summer researching the changes that were made to the FCPS school naming policy in the late 1950s that allowed for schools to be named in honor of JEB Stuart and Robert E. Lee…………… At that time, two high schools were slated to open within the next two years: Franconia High School and Munson Hill High School. But as a result of the policy change, Superintendent W.T. Woodson proposed substitute names for those schools that were controversial even at the time: Robert E. Lee High School and JEB Stuart High School...." A Total LIE and embellished to boot.
This is proven wrong in the School Board meeting minutes of 5/20/1958. Lee High School was simply named "Lee" for the Lee district. The naming of High Schools in order were Lee, (for the Lee district) Jeb Stuart and James Madison in 1958. Thomas Edison, George Marshall, and W.T. Woodson in 1960, Thomas Jefferson in 1962. Out of the 7 High Schools named only one was for a confederate. There was no defiance. In 1963 Lee was renamed at the request of the SPTA. (SB minutes 7/16/63). That was six years later.
https://insys.fcps.edu/schoolboardapps/searchmenu.cfm
So the CURRENT BOARD sits by and continues to trash Woodson and the 1958 board without one word of defense. If they want to be PC and change the name, at least have the guts to stop that stupid comment SANDY…"we don't know what was in their hearts and minds" These are people who worked hard for many years doing the same job you are now and it's ok to let everybody think they were racist because they are dead? The School Board is in receipt of letters written by their children, now in their 70's, they are horrified by the accusation.
The CURRENT BOARD for being gutless when the Democratic Party asked for Schultz resignation. Rather than taking the opportunity to say…..this is how democracy works, she is entitled to her opinion, the board all stayed silent.
I have no respect for most on this board.