Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's arrogance as much as incompetence. They didn't manage the application process properly and now they're being jerked around by Fairfax County.

Fairfax County deserves some blame here, too. If the answer is that they won't approve a Mount Daniel expansion under any circumstances they should just say that. If they have specific requirements for approval they should describe them. But "suspend your application under bureaucratic procedure A and create a new application under bureaucratic procedure B" is just logistical BS.

Well said. (And I believe Toni messed up, but Fairfax is a cluster too.)

I don't think it's arrogance as much as incompetence. They didn't manage the application process properly and now they're being jerked around by Fairfax County.

Fairfax County deserves some blame here, too. If the answer is that they won't approve a Mount Daniel expansion under any circumstances they should just say that. If they have specific requirements for approval they should describe them. But "suspend your application under bureaucratic procedure A and create a new application under bureaucratic procedure B" is just logistical BS.

Anonymous wrote:Would you hate the school so much if it was a private?

Yes, if the private school administrators were as arrogant as FCCPS.

Would you hate the school so much if it was a private?

I hope the Fairfax approvals are never forthcoming. The arrogant tone - if you oppose letting FCCPS do whatever it wants you must be a politician on the take - is really off-putting. Build your own schools within the city boundaries and you won't have these problems.

Definitely a political move. Former Falls Church City Councilman Ira Kaylin, editor of the 'blog' FallsChurchPost.com made a well-timed political payment to Mr. Foust on May 7th (and several after) - see Virginia election documents - throwing the FCCPS plans into an 11th hour state of uncertainty. A second traffic study this fall confirmed the previous Fairfax County study was correct so no reason to deny the FCCPS plans. Definitely a political move. Kaylin also made several thousands of payments to Foust in 2008 during the Water Sale dispute. Amazing this has gone unreported, investigated.

Now that the election is over (thank you), we can get back to the business of getting on. With a child gearing up for Mount Daniel next year, I signed up for the construction updates. School sent one out last night that said tomorrow the Fairfax commissioner is going to request an indefinite deferral of the Mount Daniel application to allow time for a consensus with neighbors, but then the school later said it was planning on 2016 summer construction even if no consensus. I guess I'm nervous with an indefinite deferral. Without a time frame, where's the incentive for anyone to move forward. If Fairfax doesn't approve the application, what happens then? Can they really move ahead with construction this summer? Is FCCPS out of luck and we have a really big bond we have to pay back? Nervously looking at my tax bill as discussions about GM and MEH start up. I tried to find out specifics and maybe answers to my questions, but no luck and thinking maybe I just don't know where to look.