Talk:Fuqua School

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[untitled section] 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 went to Fuqua in the 90's and was there for the transition. Just like everywhere else there are wonderful people there and there are horrible people there. Mrs. Greene the guidance/college advisor is amazing and has help so many students get out of Prince Edward. It has been my experience that the ignorant ones end up at HSC or LU. Big problem with most people at Fuqua is their limited world view, but this is not unlike other places. It is crazy to think that people born in 1990 are entering college now. Most of the teachers that were there during the Civil Rights movement have retired. I do remember one of my teachers saying 'spooks and koons' - it is not appropriate to give their name but this was 1994 in a fifth grade classroom (not appropriate). There is a large gap between the haves and have nots in Prince Edward County. It has improved with the expansion of Longwood University but as long as Green Front and Longwood are the biggest employers, there is little room for upward mobility. I'm all about putting the past behind us, but I do think people need to sack up and admit their wrongs. Read the book 'They Closed Their Schools' - my English teacher's father in law, Les Andrews is a main character. I read the book in 1995, the same month my parents got me a puppy. I named the puppy Lester, after Mr. Andrews, he was a good man at least he tried to make things right. -LL2

Name

Pronounced Few-qua. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff8765 (talk • contribs) 06:47, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Recent Updates 12/12

Another editor will be coming here to discuss some additions to the article. Gtwfan52 (talk) 18:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Name change

There was a recent edit by 24.49.31.52 (talk · contribs) which removed the history of the school prior to 1993, implying that Fuqua School and Prince Edward Academy were in fact two separate schools.

For one thing, the assertion that a school became a completely new and separate school through rebranding and renaming would require some citations to back it up. Perhaps the name, mascot, colors, and mission statement changed, but did the teachers, students, curriculum, and sports records change as well? Did it have to receive a new accreditation? Considering that the school's history is tied to segregation, this looks like an attempt to selectively ignore continuity in order to gloss over uncomfortable historical record. Even if the previous edit was legitimate, the information about Prince Edward Academy is well cited and should not be removed from the encyclopedia. I have reverted the changes, and I'm posting this on the talk page in case this is a recurring issue. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 15:48, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

PEA and Fuqua are two separate schools. When Fuqua School began Ruth Murphy and faculty completely changed the curriculum and Fuqua became accredited. Teachers, students and sports records change yearly. The information about Fuqua School should include more than PEA history. The statistics are also out of date. If you insist on PEA history at least include accurate information on Fuqua School. Go to the www.fuquaschool.com and learn about Fuqua School. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.49.31.52 (talk) 17:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

I am aware that teachers, students and sports records change yearly. But there is continuity attached to those things that you would have ignore in order to call it a new school. As for the other information you changed, you removed so much other valid and referenced content in one sweeping edit such that those items were un-salvageable. Feel free to re-update the uncontroversial information; however, removing the history of Prince Edward Academy from the article doesn't adhere to any of the goals of the encyclopedia. —Hermionedidallthework (talk) 17:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Fuqua School changed the name from Prince Edward Academy in the early 1990s when J.B. Fuqua gave them all that money and helped them renovate and update everything as well as pay some needed bills. Any assertion that Prince Edward Academy and Fuqua School are two separate schools is absolutely false. The school is widely considered to have been founded in 1959, and to have a common history connected with Prince Edward Academy. There is even a book, "Two Hundred Years in the Heart of Virginia", published through Longwood University in 1998, that states that Prince Edward Academy was at that time known as Fuqua School, just as it is now. The school simply changed its name to honor Mr. Fuqua for all his help. A good number of former segregation academies (out of the few that have made it to 2016) still operate under their original names, like Amelia Academy. Since there is little evidence to support the assertion that Prince Edward Academy and Fuqua Schools have no connection to each other, and nobody will be fooled by that assertion in any case, the school history page should remain as-is. Fuqua, on its website, plainly states they do not discriminate racially. The original reason it was founded as Prince Edward Academy is not what it is about today. That can and should be freely acknowledged. There is no need to try to hide the school's controversial origins because too many people to know about them for that to work. AC9016 (talk) 02:29, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Fuqua School Motto

The motto of the Fuqua School is stated as being "Scientia Volamus", but at the moment no English translation is listed. Does anyone know what a proper translation of it would be? Google Translate tells me that Scientia, of course, is science. Volamus has to do with a Latin word for flight or flying. But "Science Fly" or "Fly Science" doesn't really make sense. For once Google Translate seems stumped if you give it both words to translate at once. Any help on figuring this one out would be appreciated. I guess somebody could always call and ask the school, of course. They gotta have some official position on this. But if anyone can weigh in on the issue of translating "Scientia Volamus" to English it would be appreciated. --AC9016 (talk) 04:49, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

It should be, "through knowledge we fly/soar." Technically speaking, it should be rendered as Scientiā volamus, since "scientia" here is being used in the ablative case (connoting "through" or "by means of"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.155.51.3 (talk) 15:38, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

• I see! I had a basic idea of the two words as they mean separately, but was having a hard time figuring out what they meant together. (AC9016 (talk) 16:13, 19 September 2017 (UTC))

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