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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are confusing two different things.  Blake Ln. never made sense as a site with the renovation/expansion to Mosaic in the cards.  Dunn Loring did make sense because the schools on the south side of Tysons were projected to be overcrowded.  Yes, they probably should have done a temporary shift from Shrevewood to Stenwood and Stenwood to other, but a new school actually provides some real capacity help.  The pandemic has upended that.  The question now is whether it makes sense to continue with the Dunn Loring site.  I doubt that they are going to change plans based on the 2021 attendance, but if attendance does indeed continue to trend down, maybe they need to reconsider.

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Nope. You are simply wrong.

The Dunn Loring and Pimmit Hills sites were being held in reserve for potential return to use as elementary schools if the need arose, with no dates set for their rehab.

When Frisch decided to accelerate the Dunn Loring renovation, it was clear there was surplus capacity among the schools on the southern and western sides of Tysons. The only exception was Shrevewood, and the overcrowding there could have been addressed simply by moving part of Shrevewood to Stenwood and part of Stenwood to Freedom Hill.

Now FCPS will end up with a glut of space where it won’t be needed.  That will require more boundaries to be changed in 2026, and it will complicate efforts as the growth that is actually taking place in Tysons impacts Westbriar, Spring Hill, and Westgate, none of which are especially close to Dunn Loring.

It’s a giant screw-up that will only become clearer over time.

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