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[quote=Anonymous]FCPS has announced that there will be a “Heritage Day” celebration of the original Dunn Loring ES building on May 30th, prior to its demolition and the start of construction of a new 900-student elementary school.

The original building dates back roughly 50 years and was a Public Works Administration project.  It is a beautiful building with historic charm that has been used for administrative offices in recent years.

And now it stands to be demolished, to feed the ego of Karl Frisch, who pushed through this project not because there is a need for a new elementary school in the area (the site is surrounded by under-enrolled elementary schools, with FCPS elementary schools projected to experience large declines in enrollment in both absolute and percentage terms over the coming years), but instead to ensure an elementary school would not be built in the Fairfax/Oakton area, as originally planned. The price tag for “Frisch’s Folly” is $86 million, and will only go up.

Because Dunn Loring is surrounded by schools that are under-enrolled, it will require significant boundary changes to at least half-dozen elementary schools.  The biggest impacts will be to Freedom Hill and Stenwood, but other schools will also see boundary changes to backfill the schools that send students to Dunn Loring.  By now, this School Board should know that parents value stability when it comes to school boundaries, but Dunn Loring promises upheaval.

This event should be a cause not for celebration, but mourning over the upcoming loss of a historic building and disgust over the waste of taxpayer money by Karl Frisch, who has neither children nor integrity. And shame on Frisch’s School Board colleagues, several of whom admit in private this school is not needed, but who nevertheless gave this project a green light because they don’t want to offend a fellow Democrat whose main (if not sole) talent is fundraising, largely from his wealthy LBGTQ “allies” in other states.

What a shame FCPS has lost any sense of fiscal prudence or what its real priorities should be. [/quote]

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