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Get serious, please. |
| Tony Sabio is by far the dumbest candidate running this year and that says a lot |
| is it full semi-automatic? |
Agree completely. Frisch has directly cost FCPS over $60,000,000 (sixty MILLION DOLLARS) in wasted money on an unneeded new elementary school no one wants. Frisch has spearheaded millions more in waste through “school renamings” which cost $500,000 to $1,000,000 each (yes- it does cost $1 million to rename a school). Altogether, Karl has likely wasted well over one hundred million dollars during his short (but destructive) time on the Board. That is SERIOUS money wasted, at a time when we are losing massive numbers of teachers and our children are suffering - all because of Karl. Karl needs to be voted off the board at any cost. |
Sorry, anyone who is looking at the capacity projections and new residential buildings in development can see that a new school is needed. And FCPS should absolutely remove the names of American traitors. Disgusting that they were ever used in the first place. |
Traitors to the country founded on slavery and racism in the first place? :roll: |
Yes, traitors to the USA. They chose slavery over the US. |
Not true. The Dunn Loring school project is saving FCPS millions by using existing FCPS property. I don't know who you're talking to when you say nobody wants it, but if you talk to my neighbors, they will all tell you it is desperately needed. You must be thinking of the Blake Lane school project which was thankfully cancelled due to widespread opposition from the community. |
If and when a new school is needed, it’s not needed in Vienna. FCPS has options on sites in Pimmit Hills and Tysons, and both would have been far better than Gallows/Idylwood. Karl sucked in people but suggesting we’d save money by returning the charming old Dunn Loring building to use, only for FCPS to quickly announce that wasn’t feasible and the only viable option for a new school at the Dunn Loring site was a complete teardown. So if a new school gets built there, we’ll incur both short-term costs (demolition and new construction), a lot of angst (massive boundary changes to backfill a school that is surrounded by under-enrolled schools), and higher recurring costs (as kids outside of the immediate area near Dunn Loring will get bussed further from their residences to attend other schools). I might have some respect for Frisch if he said we need to hit the pause button and decide whether, on reflection, other sites make more sense). But he doesn’t want to admit he wasn’t as clever as he thought, or acted rashly. So we’re just left with a complete shit-show in the making, and the knowledge that, by the time things really blow up, Frisch will have already tried to get elected to a different office so he’s not picking up the pieces. |
+1. |
This is utter nonsense. The only people I know who support this school are Karl, Karl’s cronies, and some people whose kids could walk to a new school in Dunn Loring. On the other hand, people at Shrevewood know it will delay any boundary change there for years, people who know they’ll be left at Stenwood and Freedom Hill know those schools will end up shells of their current schools, it creates uncertainty for families at Bienna and Cunningham Park, and people in Tysons at Spring Hill know that, rather than ever being able to send their kids to an ES in Tysons, their kids will probably get bounced from Spring Hill to another school as part of the unnecessary cascading boundary changes. Any suggestion to the contrary is just Frisch continuing to put lipstick on his pig - especially up through the election. |
You must be only talking to Republicans. |
Cry more. The voters aren’t going to accept a candidate who thinks it’s ok to auction off this kind of weapon of war. |
Where? Gallows/Idylwood is very close to Tysons. There are thousands of new residential units under development. |
It’s not a party-line issue. |