has apparently become the first state in the union to reject an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment in a popular vote. Several others passed them (the one in Virginia is particularly bad).
Well, these days George Mason is a pretty liberal school, as are various sections of Fairfax County (what with all the computer nerds who live there). It's not all bad. It's just mostly bad.
The Brookfield subdivision in Chantilly in the Seventies and Eighties.
I was Chantilly High School class of 1986, though the last year of that I was actually attending classes at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in its first year of operation--for the three years before its first true graduating class matured, they had a special program just for seniors who would graduate with a sort of dual diploma. It was peculiar in that the preexisting Thomas Jefferson High School in the same building was being phased out at the same time, some classes were shared between the two schools, and there was some tension between the two sets of students.)
I remember when TJ opened...we lost one of our best English teachers (Pam Curtis) to y'all. (It about killed our English Team, too.)
You mention the tension thing; a friend of mine out here went to Tucson's magnet high school which was, on an ongoing basis, co-located with one of the normal high schools. I'll have to ask her if she was aware of any tension there.
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Date: 2006-11-08 05:30 pm (UTC)My gay friends who live there want to move out.
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Date: 2006-11-09 01:53 am (UTC)Dav2.718
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Date: 2006-11-09 02:59 am (UTC)I was Chantilly High School class of 1986, though the last year of that I was actually attending classes at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in its first year of operation--for the three years before its first true graduating class matured, they had a special program just for seniors who would graduate with a sort of dual diploma. It was peculiar in that the preexisting Thomas Jefferson High School in the same building was being phased out at the same time, some classes were shared between the two schools, and there was some tension between the two sets of students.)
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Date: 2006-11-09 04:27 am (UTC)I remember when TJ opened...we lost one of our best English teachers (Pam Curtis) to y'all. (It about killed our English Team, too.)
You mention the tension thing; a friend of mine out here went to Tucson's magnet high school which was, on an ongoing basis, co-located with one of the normal high schools. I'll have to ask her if she was aware of any tension there.
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