How has Karl Frisch raised $371,559 for his campaign, when . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kilmer has trailers and a cheap modular. Marshall has a cheap modular. McLean has cheap trailers and a cheap modular. Longfellow has trailers. All have kids that live in Providence.

Meanwhile, Frisch got $60 million allocated to build an elementary school in Vienna/Dunn Loring, which no one asked for and is surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools.

It takes a special kind of moron to do that, so the fact that some people contribute so lavishly to his campaign suggests they have an agenda that has little to do with education.

Very well put. Thanks for adding to the explanation as to why Dunn Loring is such a terrible idea and a waste of money, yet Karl pushed it through.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

For all the talk about Shrevewood’s enrollment decline, they still have classes out in trailers. Either the goal needs to be that there are enough seats for everyone, or there is an acknowledgment that trailers aren’t that big of a deal.

But trailers are a big deal.

My youngest was put in a trailer - or, should I clarify: a temporary trailer - at Kent Gardens. His teacher explained to me that same trailer had been in place and in use at Kent Gardens for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS.

The teacher eventually saw a specialist for respiratory problems. Turns out her trailer had a massive black mold infestation in all the walls and ceiling. And the teacher was pregnant at the time the black mold was discovered.

Karl Frisch has diverted money which could have ameliorated this problem, and so many others. But he does not care about the well-being of FCPS students; only his own political ambitions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

For all the talk about Shrevewood’s enrollment decline, they still have classes out in trailers. Either the goal needs to be that there are enough seats for everyone, or there is an acknowledgment that trailers aren’t that big of a deal.

But trailers are a big deal.

My youngest was put in a trailer - or, should I clarify: a temporary trailer - at Kent Gardens. His teacher explained to me that same trailer had been in place and in use at Kent Gardens for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS.

The teacher eventually saw a specialist for respiratory problems. Turns out her trailer had a massive black mold infestation in all the walls and ceiling. And the teacher was pregnant at the time the black mold was discovered.

Karl Frisch has diverted money which could have ameliorated this problem, and so many others. But he does not care about the well-being of FCPS students; only his own political ambitions.

The number of trailers has gone down in Providence schools under Frisch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

For all the talk about Shrevewood’s enrollment decline, they still have classes out in trailers. Either the goal needs to be that there are enough seats for everyone, or there is an acknowledgment that trailers aren’t that big of a deal.

But trailers are a big deal.

My youngest was put in a trailer - or, should I clarify: a temporary trailer - at Kent Gardens. His teacher explained to me that same trailer had been in place and in use at Kent Gardens for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS.

The teacher eventually saw a specialist for respiratory problems. Turns out her trailer had a massive black mold infestation in all the walls and ceiling. And the teacher was pregnant at the time the black mold was discovered.

Karl Frisch has diverted money which could have ameliorated this problem, and so many others. But he does not care about the well-being of FCPS students; only his own political ambitions.

The number of trailers has gone down in Providence schools under Frisch.

He has nothing to do with that. Nothing.

But he has everything to do with allocating $60M that could have been used to get kids out of cheap trailers and modulars to a new elementary school in Dunn Loring that is not needed. That was completely his idea; it is a terrible idea; and a bunch of brain-dead Ds on the SB went along with it even though they knew or should have known it was a terrible idea because they were burnt out from dealing with Covid issues and/or equally stupid.

The guy is a pathological BS artist, and he’s enabled by other Ds who dare not criticize him lest they get called anti-LBGTQ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

For all the talk about Shrevewood’s enrollment decline, they still have classes out in trailers. Either the goal needs to be that there are enough seats for everyone, or there is an acknowledgment that trailers aren’t that big of a deal.

But trailers are a big deal.

My youngest was put in a trailer - or, should I clarify: a temporary trailer - at Kent Gardens. His teacher explained to me that same trailer had been in place and in use at Kent Gardens for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS.

The teacher eventually saw a specialist for respiratory problems. Turns out her trailer had a massive black mold infestation in all the walls and ceiling. And the teacher was pregnant at the time the black mold was discovered.

Karl Frisch has diverted money which could have ameliorated this problem, and so many others. But he does not care about the well-being of FCPS students; only his own political ambitions.

The number of trailers has gone down in Providence schools under Frisch.

+1. The new school will reduce reliance on trailers even further. My kid spent entire 6th grade in trailers at Shrevewood, that’s not a good place to learn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

For all the talk about Shrevewood’s enrollment decline, they still have classes out in trailers. Either the goal needs to be that there are enough seats for everyone, or there is an acknowledgment that trailers aren’t that big of a deal.

But trailers are a big deal.

My youngest was put in a trailer - or, should I clarify: a temporary trailer - at Kent Gardens. His teacher explained to me that same trailer had been in place and in use at Kent Gardens for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS.

The teacher eventually saw a specialist for respiratory problems. Turns out her trailer had a massive black mold infestation in all the walls and ceiling. And the teacher was pregnant at the time the black mold was discovered.

Karl Frisch has diverted money which could have ameliorated this problem, and so many others. But he does not care about the well-being of FCPS students; only his own political ambitions.

The number of trailers has gone down in Providence schools under Frisch.

+1. The new school will reduce reliance on trailers even further. My kid spent entire 6th grade in trailers at Shrevewood, that’s not a good place to learn.

All that needed to have happened, and what could have happened by now, was to move some Shrevewood kids to Stenwood and some Stenwood kids to Freedom Hill. Now you will wait many more for years for a school that isn’t needed, and which when opened will do a number on Stenwood and Freedom Hill. Meanwhile more serious overcrowding elsewhere affecting kids in Providence will get ignored.

[Anonymous]

Almost half of his donations come from outside VA - with CA being one of his top states. Unreal.

https://www.vpap.org/candidates/302107/top-donors/out-of-state/map/?start_year=2019&end_year=2023&contrib_type=all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost half of his donations come from outside VA - with CA being one of his top states. Unreal.

https://www.vpap.org/candidates/302107/top-donors/out-of-state/map/?start_year=2019&end_year=2023&contrib_type=all

I don’t care. At least he didn’t raise money by selling an assault rifle?

[Anonymous]

And the guy who belonged to the group that auctioned the gun didn’t waste $60M in taxpayer money like Frisch on a school that serves no real purpose other than to save a dog park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

Elementary kids should never be rezoned from their walkable neighborhood schools.

Only an idiot with no common sense would build an elementary school in an area with no walkable housing to save a dog park.

Well, that hasn't happened and isn't going to happen.

It will when the uneeded elementary school in a location with very few kids surrounded by under enrolled elementary schools opens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Almost half of his donations come from outside VA - with CA being one of his top states. Unreal.

https://www.vpap.org/candidates/302107/top-donors/out-of-state/map/?start_year=2019&end_year=2023&contrib_type=all

I don’t care. At least he didn’t raise money by selling an assault rifle?

You don't care that a local VA candidate has half his donations coming from outside VA? Of course you don't. You'd only care if he was a Republican. How typical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woosh. Almost hurt my neck there on that goal shift.

Adding seats at a new ES can help get kids out of trailers.

It could, in theory, but it won't at "Dunn Loring ES," a site surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools. The only way it will ever get kids out of trailers would be through massive and unnecessary boundary shifts that will tear apart some schools and result in other kids having much further trips to school. It is a total fiasco.

I really do wonder if it's Karl responding on this thread. He has a well-earned reputation among his colleagues for playing with the truth and you can see that in some of the comments here as well.

LOL. Definitely not KF. If you want to get kids out of trailers and don't want to fund additions to various schools, then boundary changes are necessary. They happen everywhere - it's ridiculous to completely oppose any boundary changes.

For all the talk about Shrevewood’s enrollment decline, they still have classes out in trailers. Either the goal needs to be that there are enough seats for everyone, or there is an acknowledgment that trailers aren’t that big of a deal.

But trailers are a big deal.

My youngest was put in a trailer - or, should I clarify: a temporary trailer - at Kent Gardens. His teacher explained to me that same trailer had been in place and in use at Kent Gardens for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS.

The teacher eventually saw a specialist for respiratory problems. Turns out her trailer had a massive black mold infestation in all the walls and ceiling. And the teacher was pregnant at the time the black mold was discovered.

Karl Frisch has diverted money which could have ameliorated this problem, and so many others. But he does not care about the well-being of FCPS students; only his own political ambitions.

The number of trailers has gone down in Providence schools under Frisch.

He has nothing to do with that. Nothing.

But he has everything to do with allocating $60M that could have been used to get kids out of cheap trailers and modulars to a new elementary school in Dunn Loring that is not needed. That was completely his idea; it is a terrible idea; and a bunch of brain-dead Ds on the SB went along with it even though they knew or should have known it was a terrible idea because they were burnt out from dealing with Covid issues and/or equally stupid.

The guy is a pathological BS artist, and he’s enabled by other Ds who dare not criticize him lest they get called anti-LBGTQ.

How exactly?

[Anonymous]

Two things:
1. Karl—stop self-promoting on here by attempting yo defend yourself on every point raised…and just go to bed.
2. Please please please do not let this man win another term. It’s time to move on and elect someone who cares about the issues that have a positive impact on education than on his own political aspirations. (Just one person’s opinion but we can do better.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And the guy who belonged to the group that auctioned the gun didn’t waste $60M in taxpayer money like Frisch on a school that serves no real purpose other than to save a dog park.

The “dog park” story really is anti-gay code isn’t it? I tried to give people the benefit of the doubt on this, but clearly these bigots truly exist.

Anti-gay code?!?!
Dude. It’s not a code at all. It’s the best use of the word “literal” that you can fathom, because he was LITERALLY trying to save his favorite DOG PARK from development.
That he happens to be a gay man who owns that dog with his partner does not make the observation “anti-gay”

The fact that you think that a school wasn’t built at Blake Ln because of a dog park makes you stupid, not a bigot. My apologies.

NP. Honest question, I don't know much about this story but it seems to raise high emotions... what was the reason for not building a school at Blake Lane? If not the dog park?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And the guy who belonged to the group that auctioned the gun didn’t waste $60M in taxpayer money like Frisch on a school that serves no real purpose other than to save a dog park.

The “dog park” story really is anti-gay code isn’t it? I tried to give people the benefit of the doubt on this, but clearly these bigots truly exist.

Anti-gay code?!?!
Dude. It’s not a code at all. It’s the best use of the word “literal” that you can fathom, because he was LITERALLY trying to save his favorite DOG PARK from development.
That he happens to be a gay man who owns that dog with his partner does not make the observation “anti-gay”

The fact that you think that a school wasn’t built at Blake Ln because of a dog park makes you stupid, not a bigot. My apologies.

I do believe that in 2023, the latter is muuuuuch more socially acceptable.