Karl Frisch and the Stupidity of Dunn Loring ES

[Anonymous]

Why would you say that, unless you’re being deliberately obtuse? Frisch is a failure and one need only read the thread to understand why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The proposals/efforts that he sponsored/co-sponsored:

Addressing Fentanyl and Substance Abuse
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to ensure the school system is adequately addressing the threat of illicit drug use and fentanyl, and meeting the academic, social, and emotional needs of students in recovery from substance use disorder.

Increasing Traffic and Pedestrian Safety
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to develop an annual School Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Assessment Program to help address student traffic and pedestrian safety. He also helped remove many school bus stops from dangerous, high-traffic roads.

Focusing on Literacy
Karl co-sponsored a successful proposal to address early childhood and other literacy gaps with instructional practices grounded in phonics, phonemic awareness, and the science of reading. Early data already shows signs of tremendous progress.

Helping Teachers Pay Off Student Loans
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to help teachers struggling under the crippling weight of student loan debt to pay off their loans through the U.S. Department of Education's public service loan forgiveness program.

Closing the Gun-Ban Loophole
Karl sponsored a successful proposal closing the gun-ban loophole, extending gun prohibitions beyond our schools to ALL school division property, including Gatehouse, where many parents and students visit and many educators work.

Preventing Gun Violence
Karl co-sponsored a successful effort to notify parents annually about ways to prevent gun violence and of their legal obligation to securely store their guns. The measure also ensured best practices for student instruction and professional development.

Keeping Immigrant Families Together
Karl co-sponsored the successful School Trust Policy protecting immigrant students and families by prohibiting the distribution of personally identifiable information and barring voluntary cooperation with immigration officials without a court order.

Protecting and Supporting LGBTQ+ Students
Karl sponsored a successful proposal giving LGBTQ+ students the strongest protections and supports in Virginia, strengthening policies against bullying and ensuring students can show up authentically to school each day ready to learn.

Connecting Students with Local History
Karl sponsored a successful proposal establishing a joint historical markers contest with the Board of Supervisors, helping students discover and showcase previously untold narratives of the local African American community.

Removing the Confederate Stain from Our Schools
Karl sponsored a successful proposal renaming the final school in Fairfax County carrying a Confederate leader's name. He also sponsored a successful proposal allowing graduates from schools with changed names to request new diplomas.

Creatively Addressing Overcrowding
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to build a new elementary school on existing system property in Dunn Loring – a move that saved money and will ease overcrowding in the fast-growing Tysons periphery for years to come.

Strengthening Abuse Reporting
Karl sponsored revisions to the school system’s abuse and neglect reporting policy, requiring two distinct levels of reporting that offer students robust protections even stronger than required by Virginia law.

Establishing Collective Bargaining Rights
Karl sponsored the successful reversal of the school system's decades long opposition to collective bargaining and the ultimate adoption of its collective bargaining resolution that provides teachers and other school staff with a seat at the decision-making table.

Monitoring Student Device Screen Time
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to provide parents and caregivers with details about their child’s screen time and application usage on school division-issued laptops. With increased device usage at all levels, this is an invaluable tool for parents.

Encouraging Energy Conservation
Karl co-sponsored the successful proposal committing the school system to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. Current energy conservation effort save the school system nearly $10 million a year, which is then reinvested in student success.

Still waiting to hear what’s not true from this list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While other School Board members have embarrassed themselves deeply over the past two years, Karl Frisch may take the cake.

Frisch is responsible for the redirecting of $36 million in taxpayer funds that had been earmarked for the construction of a new elementary school in the Fairfax/Oakton area to the repurposing of the Dunn Loring Administrative Center as a new elementary school.

The stated rationale is to relieve future overcrowding in the "Dunn Loring/Tysons/Falls Church" area, as if these are not distinct area. For FCPS watchers, however, it is well known that the real reason was to make sure the $36 million was not spent to build a new school in the Blake Lane park area, home to a prized dog park for Frisch and some of his childless friends in the Providence District.

So what's in store:

(1) FCPS will dawdle and is expected to open the new Dunn Loring in the fall of 2026.

(2) By 2024, however, almost every nearby elementary school near Dunn Loring is expected to be below capacity - Stenwood at 92%, Shrevewood at 92%, Lemon Road at 69%, Vienna at 69%, Cunningham Park at 67%, and Freedom Hill at 67%.

(3) Given Dunn Loring's location, major boundary changes will be needed to provide a critical mass of students. Most Dunn Loring students will come from Stenwood or Freedom Hill, but some Shrevewood students will then likely move to Stenwood, and student at other schools, perhaps Westbriar (projected to be at 85% capacity in 2024) will need to move to Freedom Hill to avoid gutting Freedom Hill.

(4) None of this will provide immediate relief to Shrevewood, which prior to Covid had been overcrowded for years. Had prompt relief to Shrevewood's overcrowding, rather than saving the Blake Lane dog park, been the goal, a simple boundary change moving some Shrevewood kids to Stenwood and some Stenwood kids to Freedom could have been implemented starting this fall.

(5) Nor will Dunn Loring help with future growth in Tysons, if as expected more housing is built in central Tysons, as Dunn Loring is not especially close to the parts of Tysons slated for the most housing growth. A new elementary school in the southern part of the current Spring Hill ES attendance area would have made much more sense.

(6) And, if some of the schools in the Fairfax/Oakton area that are projected to be closer to full capacity actually see a higher-than-expected increase in enrollment, such as Waples Mill (projected to be at 99% by 2024), Oakton (89%), or Providence (87%), Frisch has nothing in the works for you, except possibly moving you to Mosaic ES, which already has about 900 kids and is itself about to undergo a renovation.

What colossal stupidity, and it was only possible because a 12-0 Democratic School Board blindly went along with Frisch's nonsense. These people have zero common sense and think they can get away with anything because so many people just vote for Democratic-endorsed candidates in School Board elections. But this crowd really is taking us all for a ride.

Still waiting for a compelling defense of this massive waste of taxpayer money.

[Anonymous]

Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

Sabio doesn’t have a degree. He’s studying aviation at Liberty and plans to graduate in 2024. Karl is at UVA and expects to graduate next month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

Sabio doesn’t have a degree. He’s studying aviation at Liberty and plans to graduate in 2024. Karl is at UVA and expects to graduate next month.

It's a shame Karl didn't have a degree before he made so many uniformed decisions as a School Board member (like the Dunn Loring fiasco). Doubt even a degree will instill any common sense in him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

Sabio doesn’t have a degree. He’s studying aviation at Liberty and plans to graduate in 2024. Karl is at UVA and expects to graduate next month.

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Good for him. I like that he has some recent connection to colleges as well. Sabio is an idiot. I'm sorry but this is not the race the republicans should win. Plenty of better candidates running in at large seats. Pick a better candidate next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

Sabio doesn’t have a degree. He’s studying aviation at Liberty and plans to graduate in 2024. Karl is at UVA and expects to graduate next month.

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Good for him. I like that he has some recent connection to colleges as well. Sabio is an idiot. I'm sorry but this is not the race the republicans should win. Plenty of better candidates running in at large seats. Pick a better candidate next time.

There is no bigger idiot and self-promoting clown in county political circles than Karl Frisch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Did you listen to the presentation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

Sabio doesn’t have a degree. He’s studying aviation at Liberty and plans to graduate in 2024. Karl is at UVA and expects to graduate next month.

It's a shame Karl didn't have a degree before he made so many uniformed decisions as a School Board member (like the Dunn Loring fiasco). Doubt even a degree will instill any common sense in him.

Ok... his opponent also doesn't have a degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karl has the Dunn Loring boondoggle listed as “creatively addressing overcrowding” but it adds capacity where it isn’t needed and ignores overcrowding where it’s actually occurring. The guy is a total BS artist.

Otherwise, if he thinks his crowning achievement is getting Mosby Woods renamed as Mosaic, slow clap. No one cared that much, and now there’s a school in Fairfax that many wrongly assume serves the Mosaic District (it doesn’t - the kids who live in Mosaic go to Fairhill).

No, he has a long list of contributions, some are listed above.

For example, he’s been working to address literacy issues for years:

https://karlfrisch.medium.com/school-board-moves-to-address-early-childhood-literacy-gaps-a45da89f8988

Sounds more like he repackages work done by others and tries to pass it off as his own. No longer it's taking him so long to get a college degree.

Where did Sabio receive his degree?

Sabio doesn’t have a degree. He’s studying aviation at Liberty and plans to graduate in 2024. Karl is at UVA and expects to graduate next month.

It's a shame Karl didn't have a degree before he made so many uniformed decisions as a School Board member (like the Dunn Loring fiasco). Doubt even a degree will instill any common sense in him.

Ok... his opponent also doesn't have a degree.

His opponent hasn't wasted $60M on an unnecessary elementary school...and gotten away with it simply because the other SB members are from the same party and don't have the guts to question a terrible decision.

Even if you think both candidates are lackluster, the one who now has a demonstrated track record of wasting our money, ignoring constituents, and exaggerating his own accomplishments is the one who should get the boot - and that's Karl Frisch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proposals/efforts that he sponsored/co-sponsored:

Addressing Fentanyl and Substance Abuse
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to ensure the school system is adequately addressing the threat of illicit drug use and fentanyl, and meeting the academic, social, and emotional needs of students in recovery from substance use disorder.

Increasing Traffic and Pedestrian Safety
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to develop an annual School Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Assessment Program to help address student traffic and pedestrian safety. He also helped remove many school bus stops from dangerous, high-traffic roads.

Focusing on Literacy
Karl co-sponsored a successful proposal to address early childhood and other literacy gaps with instructional practices grounded in phonics, phonemic awareness, and the science of reading. Early data already shows signs of tremendous progress.

Helping Teachers Pay Off Student Loans
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to help teachers struggling under the crippling weight of student loan debt to pay off their loans through the U.S. Department of Education's public service loan forgiveness program.

Closing the Gun-Ban Loophole
Karl sponsored a successful proposal closing the gun-ban loophole, extending gun prohibitions beyond our schools to ALL school division property, including Gatehouse, where many parents and students visit and many educators work.

Preventing Gun Violence
Karl co-sponsored a successful effort to notify parents annually about ways to prevent gun violence and of their legal obligation to securely store their guns. The measure also ensured best practices for student instruction and professional development.

Keeping Immigrant Families Together
Karl co-sponsored the successful School Trust Policy protecting immigrant students and families by prohibiting the distribution of personally identifiable information and barring voluntary cooperation with immigration officials without a court order.

Protecting and Supporting LGBTQ+ Students
Karl sponsored a successful proposal giving LGBTQ+ students the strongest protections and supports in Virginia, strengthening policies against bullying and ensuring students can show up authentically to school each day ready to learn.

Connecting Students with Local History
Karl sponsored a successful proposal establishing a joint historical markers contest with the Board of Supervisors, helping students discover and showcase previously untold narratives of the local African American community.

Removing the Confederate Stain from Our Schools
Karl sponsored a successful proposal renaming the final school in Fairfax County carrying a Confederate leader's name. He also sponsored a successful proposal allowing graduates from schools with changed names to request new diplomas.

Creatively Addressing Overcrowding
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to build a new elementary school on existing system property in Dunn Loring – a move that saved money and will ease overcrowding in the fast-growing Tysons periphery for years to come.

Strengthening Abuse Reporting
Karl sponsored revisions to the school system’s abuse and neglect reporting policy, requiring two distinct levels of reporting that offer students robust protections even stronger than required by Virginia law.

Establishing Collective Bargaining Rights
Karl sponsored the successful reversal of the school system's decades long opposition to collective bargaining and the ultimate adoption of its collective bargaining resolution that provides teachers and other school staff with a seat at the decision-making table.

Monitoring Student Device Screen Time
Karl sponsored a successful proposal to provide parents and caregivers with details about their child’s screen time and application usage on school division-issued laptops. With increased device usage at all levels, this is an invaluable tool for parents.

Encouraging Energy Conservation
Karl co-sponsored the successful proposal committing the school system to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. Current energy conservation effort save the school system nearly $10 million a year, which is then reinvested in student success.

Still waiting to hear what’s not true from this list.

So…nothing?

Got it.