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[quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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