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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Karl is not getting my vote![/quote]

If you live in Providence and are zoned for [b]Marshall[/b], be aware that the new Dunn Loring ES that Karl championed is not needed and that, if it ever opens, will require massive, unnecessary boundary changes involving multiple schools in the Marshall pyramid (at a minimum, Freedom Hill, Stenwood, and Shrevewood).  He's also done nothing to plan ahead for future enrollment growth in Marshall, even though FCPS's longer-term projections indicate that Marshall could pick up more kids in the coming years than any other FCPS high school due to the construction in Tysons.

If you live in Providence and are zoned for [b]Oakton[/b], be aware that Frisch took money that had been earmarked for a new school in Fairfax/Oakton, and re-routed it to Dunn Loring to save Blake Lane Park.  Even if you don't think Fairfax/Oakton needs a new school now, or that a new school shouldn't have been built at Blake Lane, that money is now gone and your pyramid won't be getting it back any time soon.  Meanwhile, Frisch let FCPS move ahead with plans to expand Mosaic ES (formerly Mosby Woods ES) to roughly 1050 seats, which is huge for an elementary school.

If you live in Providence and are zoned for [b]McLean[/b], be aware that Frisch stood by idly as Elaine Tholen pushed through a limited, one-sided boundary change with Langley that still leaves McLean severely overcrowded, and has done nothing to help McLean get the overdue permanent addition that it has needed for a decade.

If your main concern is having a School Board member who advocates for LBGTQ kids, or protects the rights of FCPS librarians to stock their library shelves with whatever books they deem appropriate for readers, Karl is certainly your guy.  And if the GOP endorses someone whose agenda is to defund the public schools in favor of vouchers, and you believe in public education, he may be your candidate as well.  But when it comes to the oversight of basic operational and planning decisions, there have been few School Board members who have done so much harm and so little good in recent memory as Karl Frisch.  [/quote]

NP. Thank you for this post, which is more informative than the rest of the entire thread for a voter like me, who has very recently started paying attention to school board elections since my oldest is only 2.[/quote]

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