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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live near Tysons and there is no way to get to Dunn Loring easily. Thats just not going to happen.

This is the trouble with giving an elected school board so much power - these people don't know anything, use the school board as a political entry point and have no business managing billions of dollars.

At the very list FCPS should be split up into 2 or 3 different school districts. It's far too big to manage as it is. [/quote]

Do you know where Dunn Loring School even is? It's on Gallows Rd. You can get to it directly from Tysons. Very easily. [/quote]

DP.  Dunn Loring site is in Vienna at the intersection of Idylwood and Gallows.

It's not far from the southern part of Tysons, but that's not where the residential growth in Tysons is occurring.  The residential growth in Tysons is either north of 123 or east of the Beltway, or both.

So no one from those areas will end up at Dunn Loring.  If they build this 900-seat school, and then have to back-fill it (because all the schools closest to Dunn Loring are under-enrolled), they'll have to reshuffle kids all over the place to justify building the wrong school in the wrong location.  Leaving Spring Hill out of the list of 10 schools under consideration just shows they haven't a clue what they are doing (as Spring Hill serves part of Tysons and will probably be over 1000 kids again at some point).

Of all the elementary schools in that area, the ones that will send the most kids to Dunn Loring will be Freedom Hill and Stenwood.  Freedom Hill could pick up some kids from Westbriar, but this will gut Stenwood.

Anyone with a brain knows this is a complete boondoggle.  [/quote]
Looking at the CIP, it’s odd that Spring Hill and Pine Spring aren’t in the study. Dunn Loring would likely absorb much of Stenwood’s existing boundaries as well as the Idylwood corridor up to 7 where the apartments and townhouses are currently split between Freedom Hill, Lemon Road, and Shrevewood. This would allow Freedom Hill’s boundaries to remain outside the Beltway and into Spring Hill’s Tysons territory (along with Westbriar), Shrevewood’s boundaries to remain inside the Beltway, and Stenwoods to shift south toward 50, both relieving Pine Spring and Timber Lane.[/quote]

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