Talk:Fuqua School
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Ok, so one kid over the course of 40 years goes to MIT, and one kid goes to Duke -during this same period -, and suddenly Fuqua sends multitudes of kids to such institutions? When I went to an area public school in the late 1980s PEA didn't even have a teacher qualfied to teach calculus. Very sad. I guess Billy Bob's great-aunt who graduated in 1941 from Farmville Normal Womens' Teacher College with a degree in Home Economics wouldn't cut it as a calc. teacher.
Please, Fuqua is and always has been an inferior school, with its heritage firmly rooted in racial intolerance and hate..anyone who would tell you different is a revisionist of history. period.
It's true that Fuqua was founded in intolerance, but to say that it is still intolerant is unfair. You say you went to school in an area school in the 80's, but from what I understand the school has changed since then. I do not know what the school was like then, hell I was hardly even born, but I do know for the fact that, the administration at least, is not at all racist. I'll admit that a few of the kids are racist, but it is unfair to hold the school accountable for having a few students who are jerks. A lot can change in 20 years. Although the references to the colleges may be a little unnecessary. Jeff8765 01:06, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
When I was at Fuqua numerous graduated and attended prestigious colleges such as Virginia Tech, UVA, William and Mary, University of Richmond. I also know of other years that produced the same turn out. I felt very prepared for college life as well as life on my own. Interesting enough to sit through a college class and see the public school idiots struggle to understand as they were ill prepared. Most, when asked by me, couldn't even explain what the emancipation proclamation was. Why are we teaching in the public school system by SOL standards and thats it? Also most did not know that the largest purchase of land was the purchase of Alaska. Most said it was from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
I think part of the problem with the Farmville community is its insistence upon living in the past. Until people can start to realize that today's generation is not bound by the prejudices of yesterday, people will continue to call each other "intolerant" and accuse each other of "racism." Fuqua School has a history of which the Farmville community is rightfully ashamed, but rather than continuing to criticize it for the sins of its fathers, why can't the community celebrate the school's recent successes and the ability of our town to move beyond decades-old racism? -R.C. (Fuqua School '03, University of Richmond '07)
