Karl Frisch and the Stupidity of Dunn Loring ES

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I’m disgusted that our new School Board member, Robyn Lady, emphasized that she had nothing to do with the initial decision to fund Dunn Loring, which predated her election, but then did nothing to revisit that bad decision. It’s apparently more important to her to fall in line with Frisch than exercise any independent judgment.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

WTF is wrong with drag queens?

Speaking of misplaced priorities.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

WTF is wrong with drag queens?

Speaking of misplaced priorities.

LOL. This is Frisch's base in a nutshell. Promoting drag queens in schools and every other venue, while ignoring education.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid. None of these schools are overcrowded. There was supposed to be a boundary study in the Fall of 2020 to figure out how to alleviate overcrowding at Shrevewood (and it probably would have just sent one neighborhood of kids to Stenwood instead), but it was cancelled due to the Covid shutdown and Karl F'ing Frisch took advantage of that to propose the Dunn Loring School (which nobody asked for or wanted). Post-Covid, Shrevewood was no longer under capacity. Then, post AAP changes at the school, it became even LESS crowded. This new school is totally unnecessary. What a huge waste of money. I'm sure that Western Fairfax County would prefer that you build them a new high school.

Honest question: what are the capacity issues that necessitate a western high? Once centreville gets built out none of those schools are overcapacity in the slightest.

DP. I think that historically the main drivers were (1) the belief that high schools shouldn't be bigger than about 2100-2200 kids; and (2) recognition that the Oak Hill/Floris area "deserved" its own high school because that area has been bounced around from so many different schools (Oakton to Westfield and then in some cases Oakton to Westfield to South Lakes).

The first argument kind of went out the window once FCPS routinely started expanding schools to well over 2300 kids. However, it's worth noting that Loudoun still zealously tries to avoid schools that have anywhere near the number of kids as a typical high school in FCPS.

The second argument went out the window once the county transferred the most obvious site for a school focused on the Oak Hill/Floris area to the Saudis, and the biggest overcrowding ended up further south in Chantilly.

So few really expect FCPS to move forward with a new western high school. They are too dishonest to kill it off properly, so they just keep kicking the can down the road and including references to a future new school in each year's CIP.

However, none of that justifies building a new elementary school in Vienna at the Dunn Loring site. Frisch just wanted to make sure that money would not be available to spend at the prior Blake Lane site. Given the disruption that school will create, and how it's going to gut other nearby schools like Stenwood, he'd have been just as well off holding a bonfire and just burning all the money (although the projected cost of Dunn Loring now is more than double the amount originally budgeted for Blake Lane).

Which is good, because Blake Lane was a terrible idea too.

Blake Lane was not a terrible idea. The county is stuffing housing on the AT&T site on Chain BRidge and more where an office building was across from Oakmont Rec Center. Mosaic is likely to remain overcrowded. Providence is rapidly running out of space and the city can push out county kids to house the city kids and there are many new developments in the city. Blake Lane may have not been the best site, but the general area needs more space. Oakton E.S. doesn't have room to add more space.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

WTF is wrong with drag queens?

Speaking of misplaced priorities.

LOL. This is Frisch's base in a nutshell. Promoting drag queens in schools and every other venue, while ignoring education.

No one is "promoting drag quesions in schools".

Again, WTF is wrong with drag queens? Try not to sound like a homophobic bigot...

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Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid. None of these schools are overcrowded. There was supposed to be a boundary study in the Fall of 2020 to figure out how to alleviate overcrowding at Shrevewood (and it probably would have just sent one neighborhood of kids to Stenwood instead), but it was cancelled due to the Covid shutdown and Karl F'ing Frisch took advantage of that to propose the Dunn Loring School (which nobody asked for or wanted). Post-Covid, Shrevewood was no longer under capacity. Then, post AAP changes at the school, it became even LESS crowded. This new school is totally unnecessary. What a huge waste of money. I'm sure that Western Fairfax County would prefer that you build them a new high school.

Honest question: what are the capacity issues that necessitate a western high? Once centreville gets built out none of those schools are overcapacity in the slightest.

DP. I think that historically the main drivers were (1) the belief that high schools shouldn't be bigger than about 2100-2200 kids; and (2) recognition that the Oak Hill/Floris area "deserved" its own high school because that area has been bounced around from so many different schools (Oakton to Westfield and then in some cases Oakton to Westfield to South Lakes).

The first argument kind of went out the window once FCPS routinely started expanding schools to well over 2300 kids. However, it's worth noting that Loudoun still zealously tries to avoid schools that have anywhere near the number of kids as a typical high school in FCPS.

The second argument went out the window once the county transferred the most obvious site for a school focused on the Oak Hill/Floris area to the Saudis, and the biggest overcrowding ended up further south in Chantilly.

So few really expect FCPS to move forward with a new western high school. They are too dishonest to kill it off properly, so they just keep kicking the can down the road and including references to a future new school in each year's CIP.

However, none of that justifies building a new elementary school in Vienna at the Dunn Loring site. Frisch just wanted to make sure that money would not be available to spend at the prior Blake Lane site. Given the disruption that school will create, and how it's going to gut other nearby schools like Stenwood, he'd have been just as well off holding a bonfire and just burning all the money (although the projected cost of Dunn Loring now is more than double the amount originally budgeted for Blake Lane).

Which is good, because Blake Lane was a terrible idea too.

Blake Lane was not a terrible idea. The county is stuffing housing on the AT&T site on Chain BRidge and more where an office building was across from Oakmont Rec Center. Mosaic is likely to remain overcrowded. Providence is rapidly running out of space and the city can push out county kids to house the city kids and there are many new developments in the city. Blake Lane may have not been the best site, but the general area needs more space. Oakton E.S. doesn't have room to add more space.

+1000. Frisch was so busy trying to prove to his friends that he could kill off Blake Lane Park that he never bothered looking at the long-term needs in the Fairfax/Oakton area. But since he’s going to waste those funds in Dunn Loring on a school that isn’t needed, it’s going to be a long, long time before money ever frees up for Fairfax/Oakton again.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

WTF is wrong with drag queens?

Speaking of misplaced priorities.

LOL. This is Frisch's base in a nutshell. Promoting drag queens in schools and every other venue, while ignoring education.

No one is "promoting drag quesions in schools".

Again, WTF is wrong with drag queens? Try not to sound like a homophobic bigot...

We wanted someone with some common sense and we got RuPaul 2.0 instead. Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

I don't understand why you keep bringing up drag queens. They have nothing to do with his campaign or anything he does on the school board. Get a grip and stick to the point.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

WTF is wrong with drag queens?

Speaking of misplaced priorities.

LOL. This is Frisch's base in a nutshell. Promoting drag queens in schools and every other venue, while ignoring education.

No one is "promoting drag quesions in schools".

Again, WTF is wrong with drag queens? Try not to sound like a homophobic bigot...

We wanted someone with some common sense and we got RuPaul 2.0 instead. Sigh.

Guess you couldn’t do it.

GFY, bigot.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch snookered people into thinking they were going to renovate the old Dunn Loring building. Instead, they plan to tear it down. So much for his alleged commitment to environmentalism and retrofitting existing buildings. He's an ass.

Why do people still keep voting for this d*ck? He's done nothing good for the school system, definitely nothing good for his district. Everyone I know hates him. I hope there is a better progressive candidate when he's up again (is that this year???)

His purpose on the school board os to fundraise from out of state donors, mostly from California, to support far left wing causes and candidates.

He has zero interest in actual school issues, except those that appeal to out of state donors.

They vote for him because no reasonable opponent ran.

Doesn’t make Dunn Loring ES any better an idea. Karl Frisch is a creep who has no kids, appears to spend most of his free time with drag queens, and wastes taxpayer money.

Of course it doesn’t but the question was why did people vote for him again. The answer is because there was no reasonable alternative.

And criticizing him for having no kids and being part of the LGBTQ community is the problem. Opponents who focus on those things will lose because most people don’t have a problem with those things.

But it’s a more than full time job that pays less than $50,000 a year and subjects you to lots of vitriol and hate so not many people will be interested in running.

People voted for him because most of Fairfax County votes "blue no matter who" and doesn't research local issues or give a fig about who they are electing, their lack of qualifications and what they do once elected.

They did the research and KF was by far the best option.

What kind of unhinged lunatic raffles off a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for his campaign for school board? WTF?

Yeah, that’s crazy, but so too are the number of times Frisch has been photographed hanging around with drag queens. It tells you what his priorities are, and they have little to do with education.

It’s a shame there aren’t better people running but it’s Frisch who is making the terrible decisions now, so he’s the one who needs to be called out and held accountable. His defeated opponents aren’t the ones wasting tens of millions in taxpayer money on an unnecessary new school.

I don't understand why you keep bringing up drag queens. They have nothing to do with his campaign or anything he does on the school board. Get a grip and stick to the point.

Weren't you the one who brought up the idiosyncrasies of Frisch's last opponent, which didn't relate to the decisions he might have made on the School Board if elected.

Karl is a bit unusual as well, but you treat his penchant for spending an inordinate of time at Pride parades and hanging out with drag queens as virtues, while ignoring his bad policy decisions. He is among the current SB members driving FCPS into the ground. Every year performance declines and longstanding issues go unaddressed.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid. None of these schools are overcrowded. There was supposed to be a boundary study in the Fall of 2020 to figure out how to alleviate overcrowding at Shrevewood (and it probably would have just sent one neighborhood of kids to Stenwood instead), but it was cancelled due to the Covid shutdown and Karl F'ing Frisch took advantage of that to propose the Dunn Loring School (which nobody asked for or wanted). Post-Covid, Shrevewood was no longer under capacity. Then, post AAP changes at the school, it became even LESS crowded. This new school is totally unnecessary. What a huge waste of money. I'm sure that Western Fairfax County would prefer that you build them a new high school.

Honest question: what are the capacity issues that necessitate a western high? Once centreville gets built out none of those schools are overcapacity in the slightest.

DP. I think that historically the main drivers were (1) the belief that high schools shouldn't be bigger than about 2100-2200 kids; and (2) recognition that the Oak Hill/Floris area "deserved" its own high school because that area has been bounced around from so many different schools (Oakton to Westfield and then in some cases Oakton to Westfield to South Lakes).

The first argument kind of went out the window once FCPS routinely started expanding schools to well over 2300 kids. However, it's worth noting that Loudoun still zealously tries to avoid schools that have anywhere near the number of kids as a typical high school in FCPS.

The second argument went out the window once the county transferred the most obvious site for a school focused on the Oak Hill/Floris area to the Saudis, and the biggest overcrowding ended up further south in Chantilly.

So few really expect FCPS to move forward with a new western high school. They are too dishonest to kill it off properly, so they just keep kicking the can down the road and including references to a future new school in each year's CIP.

However, none of that justifies building a new elementary school in Vienna at the Dunn Loring site. Frisch just wanted to make sure that money would not be available to spend at the prior Blake Lane site. Given the disruption that school will create, and how it's going to gut other nearby schools like Stenwood, he'd have been just as well off holding a bonfire and just burning all the money (although the projected cost of Dunn Loring now is more than double the amount originally budgeted for Blake Lane).

Which is good, because Blake Lane was a terrible idea too.

Blake Lane was not a terrible idea. The county is stuffing housing on the AT&T site on Chain BRidge and more where an office building was across from Oakmont Rec Center. Mosaic is likely to remain overcrowded. Providence is rapidly running out of space and the city can push out county kids to house the city kids and there are many new developments in the city. Blake Lane may have not been the best site, but the general area needs more space. Oakton E.S. doesn't have room to add more space.

Mosaic post-renovation is at 90% per the CIP. Everyone always talks about new housing developments, but unless you are talking about the massive changes anticipated for Tysons, there aren't likely to be changes that outweigh the demographic fade that is coming. Blake Lane was a bad idea.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid. None of these schools are overcrowded. There was supposed to be a boundary study in the Fall of 2020 to figure out how to alleviate overcrowding at Shrevewood (and it probably would have just sent one neighborhood of kids to Stenwood instead), but it was cancelled due to the Covid shutdown and Karl F'ing Frisch took advantage of that to propose the Dunn Loring School (which nobody asked for or wanted). Post-Covid, Shrevewood was no longer under capacity. Then, post AAP changes at the school, it became even LESS crowded. This new school is totally unnecessary. What a huge waste of money. I'm sure that Western Fairfax County would prefer that you build them a new high school.

Honest question: what are the capacity issues that necessitate a western high? Once centreville gets built out none of those schools are overcapacity in the slightest.

DP. I think that historically the main drivers were (1) the belief that high schools shouldn't be bigger than about 2100-2200 kids; and (2) recognition that the Oak Hill/Floris area "deserved" its own high school because that area has been bounced around from so many different schools (Oakton to Westfield and then in some cases Oakton to Westfield to South Lakes).

The first argument kind of went out the window once FCPS routinely started expanding schools to well over 2300 kids. However, it's worth noting that Loudoun still zealously tries to avoid schools that have anywhere near the number of kids as a typical high school in FCPS.

The second argument went out the window once the county transferred the most obvious site for a school focused on the Oak Hill/Floris area to the Saudis, and the biggest overcrowding ended up further south in Chantilly.

So few really expect FCPS to move forward with a new western high school. They are too dishonest to kill it off properly, so they just keep kicking the can down the road and including references to a future new school in each year's CIP.

However, none of that justifies building a new elementary school in Vienna at the Dunn Loring site. Frisch just wanted to make sure that money would not be available to spend at the prior Blake Lane site. Given the disruption that school will create, and how it's going to gut other nearby schools like Stenwood, he'd have been just as well off holding a bonfire and just burning all the money (although the projected cost of Dunn Loring now is more than double the amount originally budgeted for Blake Lane).

Which is good, because Blake Lane was a terrible idea too.

Blake Lane was not a terrible idea. The county is stuffing housing on the AT&T site on Chain BRidge and more where an office building was across from Oakmont Rec Center. Mosaic is likely to remain overcrowded. Providence is rapidly running out of space and the city can push out county kids to house the city kids and there are many new developments in the city. Blake Lane may have not been the best site, but the general area needs more space. Oakton E.S. doesn't have room to add more space.

Mosaic post-renovation is at 90% per the CIP. Everyone always talks about new housing developments, but unless you are talking about the massive changes anticipated for Tysons, there aren't likely to be changes that outweigh the demographic fade that is coming. Blake Lane was a bad idea.

The housing planned on the AT&T site is zoned for Oakton ES, not Mosaic ES.

Even if building at Blake Lane Park was a bad idea, several of the ES in that area are much larger, and far more likely to be overcrowded in the future, than the smaller, less crowded schools in Vienna surrounding the Dunn Loring site.

Frisch ignored all this because he wanted to curry favor with the BLP opponents (largely people with no kids in FCPS, by the way). He misled people by suggesting it would be a win-win to renovate the old Dunn Loring ES property in Vienna, which FCPS has since said would be torn down. You cannot seriously contend there is a greater need for a new 900-school in Vienna than in the Fairfax/Oakton area.

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The area under Frisch’s jurisdiction is full of outdated and overcrowded schools and has been for years. I work at one of the elementary schools and the school was in need of more space years ago. We have two horrendous mold filled trailers and teachers working with students in the hallway with no privacy. It is nearly impossible to find a bathroom to use that is close by a classroom without waiting for 5-7 minutes in a line. Morale is low and facilities and lack of proactive action on the part of leadership is definitely to blame. Voters need to wake up or there will be no teachers left.