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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why couldn't they just repurpose one of the schools already in that area? There are a ton of them.[/quote]

If you're talking about Frisch, Shrevewood is overcrowded and other elementary schools that feed into the same MS/HS (Kilmer/Marshall) had capacity.  He could have arranged for immediate relief at Shrevewood starting this fall by moving part of Shrevewood to Stenwood, and part of Stenwood to Freedom Hill.  The Dunn Loring site was one of two former elementary schools (the other being Pimmit Hills) that FCPS had suggested might be repurposed in a decade or so.

Instead, Frisch took money earmarked for a new elementary school in Oakton at Blake Lane Park and got the others on the School Board to agree it could be used to accelerate the renovation of Dunn Loring.  So the Shrevewood families will have to wait years for overcrowding relief, and more families - especially those now at Stenwood - will end up redistricted than would have otherwise been necessary to address the overcrowding at Shrevewood.  Why do this?  Because a few dozen active Democrats, many without children, wanted Blake Lane Park to remain a dog park, not a school site.

It's obscene that he prioritized his friends over his constituents, and what's even worse is that other School Board members have done things just as bone-headed.  He did get a few Shrevewood parents to support his scheme, which involved the rest of the School Board closing their eyes and pretending that money dedicated to building a new school in "Fairfax/Oakton" could just as readily be used to renovate a school over five miles away in Dunn Loring, but one suspects that their enthusiasm will wane once they realize how long it's going to take to renovate Dunn Loring and adjust the boundaries at multiple schools in their pyramid. 
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Thanks for the summary.

And wasn't that Dunn Loring building constructed in the 1930s?  It is almost a century old, so renovating and retrofitting it to an ADA accessible, environmentally safe elementary schoop is going to run way over budget.[/quote]

It is a charming old building, but it almost certainly will cost a lot of money to bring up to current code.  That's assuming they don't just decide to tear it down instead.  By the time it's sorted out current Shrevewood students may already be at Marshall or have graduated. [/quote]

I am not saying I really agree or disagree with Frisch's position, but I have never seen a boundary change proposition that didn't come along with major objections by some parents/families that mucked up the works. And honestly I do think there should be an evaluation of what we're looking at in 10 years.

BUT, I had the occasion to visit the Dunn Loring Admin Center to register a kid in 2019 - not sure what major issues would have to be addressed to put kid in school there since FCPS is already testing kids there, and there are offices, etc. The place has not been shuttered or something. It would make much more sense to locate those services elsewhere and make Dunn Loring a school again.[/quote]

Tell that to the Shrevewood families whose kids will be trailers for years due to Frisch’s “creativity.”  He clearly did not have their interests primarily in mind.[/quote]

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