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Frustration mounts over high school impasse
A group of western Loudoun parents is taking what might be called the Nike approach to the legal battle over building a high school on the Fields Farm north of Purcellville.
Just do it.
"I think they need to sit down and get it done," parent Rob Lynch said.
The Supreme Court of Virginia is mulling over the complicated legal ramifications of who can build what on the Fields Farm, within Purcellville's Joint (with the county) Land Management Area but not within town limits. The town's and county's differing readings of land-use rules have held up construction of a high school for almost two years.
Lynch describes himself as a "frustrated western Loudoun parent." He's developed an e-mail list of close to 500 names of similarly frustrated parents who are fed up with the overcrowding at Loudoun Valley High School, and he called on them to rally at 4 p.m. June 16 at Franklin Park.
A thunderstorm, with lightning and damaging winds, camped out above Purcellville about 3:30 p.m., and only Lynch, his three children and three other middle-schoolers braved the elements.
They moved on to the Bloom shopping center in Purcellville and went door-to-door, asking merchants and customers to send post cards – "Build Woodgrove HS now" – to members of the School Board, town council and Board of Supervisors.
His son Austin Lynch, 14, will be a ninth-grader at Harmony Intermediate School next fall, not a freshman at Woodgrove High School. He is not looking forward to the experience.
"I heard we might have to share lockers," Austin said. "And if we don't get the new high school, class sizes will get larger and our grades can get lower."
Lori Miller, an apprentice at Studio 609 in the shopping center and parent of a Loudoun Valley senior, was more direct.
"It's absurd," Miller said. “The overcrowding at Valley is ridiculous and there's no reason for it.
"It's time for the county to step up and build a high school, and get off their high horses and let's do something.”
To get on Lynch's e-mail list, send e-mail to woodgrovehsnow@yahoo.com.
Contact the reporter at ssollinger@timespapers.com
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