School Board Forum on "Boundary and Capacity"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

His husband is a teacher.

It's well known that he puts what he perceives to be the interests of teachers above those of families with kids.

A good balance to the parents who don’t give a rat’s butt about teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

His husband is a teacher.

It's well known that he puts what he perceives to be the interests of teachers above those of families with kids.

A good balance to the parents who don’t give a rat’s butt about teachers.

There's nothing great in store for the teachers who'll have to change schools because that dingbat's pet project (Dunn Loring) is going to reshuffle dozens of teachers and hundred of kids out of schools that aren't even overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

Totally agree.

That’s insane. Procreating doesn’t mean you have more rights than someone else in ideas and insights on our educational system that impacts our whole community—our future police force, teachers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, parks and recs staff, firefighters, retail, business people—are coming from our public school system and our whole community benefits when everyone engages to make sure we continue to build and be an amazing place we all choose to live in. Geez. You are screwed up in your thinking. You don’t need a kid in school at time of board representation. That’s called discrimination and there are tons of non-parents or older workforce with great ideas of how to improve our educational system that have served as teachers, community members, and children advocates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

Totally agree.

As long as you don’t tax people without children in the schools, I’m fine with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

Totally agree.

That’s insane. Procreating doesn’t mean you have more rights than someone else in ideas and insights on our educational system that impacts our whole community—our future police force, teachers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, parks and recs staff, firefighters, retail, business people—are coming from our public school system and our whole community benefits when everyone engages to make sure we continue to build and be an amazing place we all choose to live in. Geez. You are screwed up in your thinking. You don’t need a kid in school at time of board representation. That’s called discrimination and there are tons of non-parents or older workforce with great ideas of how to improve our educational system that have served as teachers, community members, and children advocates.

Even so, we all know Frisch would never have run for School Board if he didn't simply see it as a step to higher office, which he made very clear when he proposed to bail on the School Board three years into his term and seek the seat in the House of Delegates that Holly Siebold eventually won. Had he won that primary or election, he would have gladly forced taxpayers to shell out roughly $250K for a special election to elect a replacement.

But, again, the bigger issue is the sheer hypocrisy of Frisch's claiming there should be no more "one-off" boundary changes when he's ramming a "one-off" brand-new school through for which there's no need, let alone a compelling need.

[Anonymous]

Dunn Loring should have been closed years ago. Its a decrepit embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh look, people trying to keep the poor kids away. The people of Fairfax never disappoint.

Funny, I kinda viewed the comments from the board member as looking out for the poor kids, but if you feel strongly that you want to hurt poor kids through redistricting, by all means, advocate for that. You’re constantly pushing for this weird faux utopia where you think sticking it to the “rich” will somehow make it better, without really ever articulating what’s exactly is made better in that scenario. In that sense, it is you that never disappoints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl Frisch is claiming that the School Board shouldn’t make “one-off” decisions about boundaries or school expansions because they are politicians, yet he single-handedly is going to force boundary adjustments for most of the elementary schools within the Marshall pyramid in a few years by pushing through the Dunn Loring ES project, which based on staff’s prior analysis was on the back burner and not at all a priority before Frisch decided to accelerate it.

Why they are doing now will just be used as an excuse for not dealing with long-overcrowded and/or neglected schools. These people suck.

Karl Frisch shouldn't even be allowed on the school board. Having children in the system should be a requirement for being elected to the school board, and having children in the system should be a requirement for voting for the school board. Why are we allowing people without any skin in the game to make decisions about our kid's education?

Totally agree.

As long as you don’t tax people without children in the schools, I’m fine with it.

Kinda weird that there are non-parents trolling this board though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh look, people trying to keep the poor kids away. The people of Fairfax never disappoint.

Funny, I kinda viewed the comments from the board member as looking out for the poor kids, but if you feel strongly that you want to hurt poor kids through redistricting, by all means, advocate for that. You’re constantly pushing for this weird faux utopia where you think sticking it to the “rich” will somehow make it better, without really ever articulating what’s exactly is made better in that scenario. In that sense, it is you that never disappoints.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dunn Loring should have been closed years ago. Its a decrepit embarrassment.

? It hasn’t been a school for decades.

[Anonymous]

We need real change. The western school pyramid is comprised mostly of first and second generation immigrants, and have been ignored forever. Even the school signal traffic light is missing on Centreville road for years since they widened road and not one single politician has cared to restore the flashing lights for an elementary school (Floris) for basic traffic safety. It’s an underrepresented community that is significantly neglected. No school board member ever fights to represent this community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dunn Loring should have been closed years ago. Its a decrepit embarrassment.

It hasn't been used as a school for many years, but it's a beautiful building that will now been torn down and replaced with a totally unnecessary school, rather than renovated.

If you're at Stenwood and Freedom Hill in particular, get ready to see your schools torn apart. And there are a whole host of other schools that will have to undergo cascading boundary changes because they can't just move kids to Dunn Loring from those two schools and leave them with a critical mass of kids. Frisch is counting on being elsewhere when the Dunn Loring mess really hits the fan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need real change. The western school pyramid is comprised mostly of first and second generation immigrants, and have been ignored forever. Even the school signal traffic light is missing on Centreville road for years since they widened road and not one single politician has cared to restore the flashing lights for an elementary school (Floris) for basic traffic safety. It’s an underrepresented community that is significantly neglected. No school board member ever fights to represent this community.

What is the "western school pyramid"? And the neglect within FCPS is spread all around different parts of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dunn Loring should have been closed years ago. Its a decrepit embarrassment.

It hasn't been used as a school for many years, but it's a beautiful building that will now been torn down and replaced with a totally unnecessary school, rather than renovated.

If you're at Stenwood and Freedom Hill in particular, get ready to see your schools torn apart. And there are a whole host of other schools that will have to undergo cascading boundary changes because they can't just move kids to Dunn Loring from those two schools and leave them with a critical mass of kids. Frisch is counting on being elsewhere when the Dunn Loring mess really hits the fan.

DP. It is a beautiful building and I wish they would design new schools in that model instead of the god-awful modern buildings they currently build. Kind of off-topic, but it really bothers me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need real change. The western school pyramid is comprised mostly of first and second generation immigrants, and have been ignored forever. Even the school signal traffic light is missing on Centreville road for years since they widened road and not one single politician has cared to restore the flashing lights for an elementary school (Floris) for basic traffic safety. It’s an underrepresented community that is significantly neglected. No school board member ever fights to represent this community.

I think most people on this board would be fine with restoring a traffic light. A lot less people would be down for redistricting and the immense toll that would entail for students. Yours seems to be a burn-it-all-down argument.