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Anonymous wrote:It has been announced that the election will be held on Saturday, October 1st, but they have not announced the polling location. There will only be 1 or 2 locations. I'm 110% supporting Holly Seibold because at least I know she actually cares about representing my neighbors and me and not about what this gets her next.

can you post a link to the information/announcement?

I havent seen anything from FCDC yet.

FCDC is changing the date they communicated to the candidates a few days ago because they can’t find an “available” location. Wouldn’t you look for locations BEFORE you announce a date? Check the Ffx County community use calendar with Neighborhood and Community Services. It’s not hard to find a school cafeteria/library/gym available on a random Saturday in October/November.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

The property was purchased to be a school, and we desperately need a school in that area. Neighboring schools are over capacity. Honestly the dog park thing was the nicest gloss you could put on the straight up NIMBYism driving the opposition.

Wasn't Mosaic (fka Mosby Woods) close to 1100 kids at one point? Providence and Waples Mill are big as well. Seems like Frisch is making sure those schools remains super-sized well into the future.

Yes. And they tried to pretend like the schools would be reducing in size in 5 years or so, except… guess what? The only people moving into the loads of 1970s-era townhomes in that zone are young families with young children. And with housing prices as they are, that won’t change anytime soon. Those schools will remain at over-capacity for years and years. Maybe they can name some of the Modular classrooms after Frisch, in his honor.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

The property was purchased to be a school, and we desperately need a school in that area. Neighboring schools are over capacity. Honestly the dog park thing was the nicest gloss you could put on the straight up NIMBYism driving the opposition.

Wasn't Mosaic (fka Mosby Woods) close to 1100 kids at one point? Providence and Waples Mill are big as well. Seems like Frisch is making sure those schools remains super-sized well into the future.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

The property was purchased to be a school, and we desperately need a school in that area. Neighboring schools are over capacity. Honestly the dog park thing was the nicest gloss you could put on the straight up NIMBYism driving the opposition.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

Dunn Loring is more complicated. The Board is clearly looking forward, and they state in the CIP that they make use of Comprehensive Planning Documents. Tysons is going to add more population than anywhere in the county by a significant margin, so it makes sense for there to be multiple ESs in the planning process. As others have pointed out, there was a somewhat natural Shrevewood to Stenwood to Freedom Hill transition (though I'm betting they were getting Stenwood parent pushback there). That all works well for a bit, until the population growth in Tysons really takes off and then you've filled up Freedom Hill and Westgate on the south side. It may indeed be better to have Dunn Loring in the mix. But I don't know what kind of population statistics the Board was working with.

The real failure here is not having a good working document that could be shared to show the data behind the Dunn Loring push.

You guessed wrong. Frisch hijacked the process before a specific plan to move part of Shrevewood to Stenwood and part of Stenwood to Freedom Hill (the cheap, easy solution that could have already been implemented) was presented.

And, even if some Stenwood parents were to object to either Shrevewood kids from apartments coming into their school, or their getting moved to Freedom Hill, so what? Our 12-0 School Board full of self-styled progressive Democrats surely could have looked past such objections, and the students would have remained zoned for the exact same middle and high schools (Kilmer and Marshall). Further, the Stenwood parents are likely to object even more in a few years when they get booted out of Stenwood to Dunn Loring to justify Frisch's folly.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

Dunn Loring is more complicated. The Board is clearly looking forward, and they state in the CIP that they make use of Comprehensive Planning Documents. Tysons is going to add more population than anywhere in the county by a significant margin, so it makes sense for there to be multiple ESs in the planning process. As others have pointed out, there was a somewhat natural Shrevewood to Stenwood to Freedom Hill transition (though I'm betting they were getting Stenwood parent pushback there). That all works well for a bit, until the population growth in Tysons really takes off and then you've filled up Freedom Hill and Westgate on the south side. It may indeed be better to have Dunn Loring in the mix. But I don't know what kind of population statistics the Board was working with.

The real failure here is not having a good working document that could be shared to show the data behind the Dunn Loring push.

You could look at where the growth is projected and where it isn't.

The schools that are expected to pick up kids are further east serving Tysons - Westgate, Spring Hill, and Westbriar.

If there was money available because Fairfax/Oakton didn't turn out to need a school, it could have been spent accelerating the construction of a new ES in Tysons, which was also in the CIP as a medium-term project. Or as someone else suggested it could have been used to expand McLean HS, which is overcrowded and has been stuck with cheap trailers followed by a cheap modular.

But the schools near Dunn Loring - Stenwood, Freedom Hill, Cunningham Park, Vienna, and Shrevewood - are not expected to see major growth and there's virtually nothing in the pipeline in those areas compared to further east. So they will end up with a glut of space in Vienna/Dunn Loring, which they'll end up back-filling with kids from Tysons who may lose the opportunity to attend a new elementary school in Tysons closer to where they live.

It's nice that someone would try and make Frisch seem like a visionary but this is putting lipstick on a pig. Dunn Loring should not have been a priority renovation and it only happened because Frisch wanted to kill Blake Lane and his fellow Board members were too burnt out by Covid-related issues to second-guess his stupidity. He probably won't be around to pick up the pieces, but it will be an absolute shit-show.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

Dunn Loring is more complicated. The Board is clearly looking forward, and they state in the CIP that they make use of Comprehensive Planning Documents. Tysons is going to add more population than anywhere in the county by a significant margin, so it makes sense for there to be multiple ESs in the planning process. As others have pointed out, there was a somewhat natural Shrevewood to Stenwood to Freedom Hill transition (though I'm betting they were getting Stenwood parent pushback there). That all works well for a bit, until the population growth in Tysons really takes off and then you've filled up Freedom Hill and Westgate on the south side. It may indeed be better to have Dunn Loring in the mix. But I don't know what kind of population statistics the Board was working with.

The real failure here is not having a good working document that could be shared to show the data behind the Dunn Loring push.

Ummm I know about 1000 parents at an overcrowded school who would disagree with you that building another school on property purchased ....to build another school on years ago... was "unnecessary and wasteful." But parents have limited lobbying potential, as opposed to a few retired folks with dogs who can really launch a campaign.

It's fine if you disagree, but please don't bring his sexual orientation into this, which has absolutely nothing to do with anything. BTW "Gay guy liking dog parks" isn't a stereotype, or at least one I've ever heard until reading your comment. The reason there was no data shown behind the DL push was because there was no data that backed up that decision. It was all Karl, trying to patronize a few really worked up, extremely vocal, NIMBY Oakton folks because he -- probably correctly -- agreed they were the types to vote and give campaign donations.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

Dunn Loring is more complicated. The Board is clearly looking forward, and they state in the CIP that they make use of Comprehensive Planning Documents. Tysons is going to add more population than anywhere in the county by a significant margin, so it makes sense for there to be multiple ESs in the planning process. As others have pointed out, there was a somewhat natural Shrevewood to Stenwood to Freedom Hill transition (though I'm betting they were getting Stenwood parent pushback there). That all works well for a bit, until the population growth in Tysons really takes off and then you've filled up Freedom Hill and Westgate on the south side. It may indeed be better to have Dunn Loring in the mix. But I don't know what kind of population statistics the Board was working with.

The real failure here is not having a good working document that could be shared to show the data behind the Dunn Loring push.

Karl's friends are back playing the "they're attacking him because he's gay" card. Nope, sorry. This has absolutely nothing to do with his sexuality and everything to do with his poor decisions. Stop with the lies and disinformation. The school board was ready to do a boundary study and make boundary changes before he intervened with the Dunn Loring plan that nobody asked for.

Honestly, the dog park attacks make me uneasy. "The gay guy without kids favors dog parents more." That is a gross look.

The simple fact is that Blake Ln should have never been considered for an ES. Big kudos to Fritsch for stopping that unnecessary and wasteful plan.

Dunn Loring is more complicated. The Board is clearly looking forward, and they state in the CIP that they make use of Comprehensive Planning Documents. Tysons is going to add more population than anywhere in the county by a significant margin, so it makes sense for there to be multiple ESs in the planning process. As others have pointed out, there was a somewhat natural Shrevewood to Stenwood to Freedom Hill transition (though I'm betting they were getting Stenwood parent pushback there). That all works well for a bit, until the population growth in Tysons really takes off and then you've filled up Freedom Hill and Westgate on the south side. It may indeed be better to have Dunn Loring in the mix. But I don't know what kind of population statistics the Board was working with.

The real failure here is not having a good working document that could be shared to show the data behind the Dunn Loring push.

So, right now I am in Keam's District, but in 2024 I am in a new District - so can I vote in this special election? I suppose I can.

I see for a previous special election, all voters could vote in the firehouse primary - is that thought to be the case with this election?

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Anonymous wrote:It has been announced that the election will be held on Saturday, October 1st, but they have not announced the polling location. There will only be 1 or 2 locations. I'm 110% supporting Holly Seibold because at least I know she actually cares about representing my neighbors and me and not about what this gets her next.

can you post a link to the information/announcement?

I havent seen anything from FCDC yet.

Anonymous wrote:It has been announced that the election will be held on Saturday, October 1st, but they have not announced the polling location. There will only be 1 or 2 locations. I'm 110% supporting Holly Seibold because at least I know she actually cares about representing my neighbors and me and not about what this gets her next.

can you post a link to the information/announcement?

Anonymous wrote:It has been announced that the election will be held on Saturday, October 1st, but they have not announced the polling location. There will only be 1 or 2 locations. I'm 110% supporting Holly Seibold because at least I know she actually cares about representing my neighbors and me and not about what this gets her next.

Is it an actual election? Meaning, will our vote even matter - or will the Dems just anoint Frisch regardless?

Anonymous wrote:It has been announced that the election will be held on Saturday, October 1st, but they have not announced the polling location. There will only be 1 or 2 locations. I'm 110% supporting Holly Seibold because at least I know she actually cares about representing my neighbors and me and not about what this gets her next.

Please continue to get the word out. Frisch does not deserve another position.

It has been announced that the election will be held on Saturday, October 1st, but they have not announced the polling location. There will only be 1 or 2 locations. I'm 110% supporting Holly Seibold because at least I know she actually cares about representing my neighbors and me and not about what this gets her next.