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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard to believe any of these comments are anything other than astroturfing.  Repurposing Dunn Loring makes much more sense than building a brand new school outright.  Why anyone thinks any of this has to do with a DOG PARK only makes sense when you understand that 90% of the criticism about Frisch is very thinly veiled anti-gay stuff.  That he cares more about phis than children.  That he has no children in the schools.

Look, I’d having a vested interest in the schools and expertise in public education was a requirement for being elected to the school board, we’d be electing experienced FCPS teachers who  are also FCPS parents.  But that is explicitly Not allowed.  So let’s let go of the criticism that Frisch has no children.  He is a member of our community. [/quote]

Hard to believe this post is anything other than the typical defensiveness that leads FCDC loyalists to defend anything the School Board does, no matter how ill-advised or bone headed, simply because the current Board is all Democratic.

Frisch crowed about how his scheme would save Blake Lane Park when it was announced. And one of the key arguments made by those who wanted that site not to be used for a school was that it was a much-needed dog park.

It is incontrovertible that returning Dunn Loring to use as a school delays any relief at Shrevewood by five years and that FCPS projections do not suggest that any of the schools closest to Dunn Loring will be overcrowded within the next five years.  To the contrary, FCPS projects that several will be roughly 20-40% under-capacity five years from now.

If there is no longer a need for a new ES in the Fairfax/Oakton area, then no school should be built there. Or, if a school is needed in that area, but the Blake Lane site is inappropriate, then a better site should be identified in that area.  But accelerating the Dunn Loring site was pure stupidity, best explained by Frisch’s desire to curry favor with his friends by assuring that the money once set aside for Blake Lane was being spent elsewhere.  It will end up being an obstacle to sensible planning in the Tysons area, and FCPS will still have to find an alternate site for the administrative programs being relocated from Dunn Loring.

It’s a shame that Frisch has supporters who want to cost him with Teflon due to his sexuality, when the real problem is that Frisch’s lack of any relevant expertise keeps redounding to the detriment of county parents and taxpayers. [/quote]

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