<p>For you NOVA and Fairfax County complainers:</p>
<p>I just have to laugh. I mean … really. Here you have the best equipped and best funded high schools in the state, with stunning class options, and legion AP/IB and honors courses, and you want EVEN MORE!!! I gotta admit, THAT’s chutzpah!!!</p>
<p>I no longer live in Virginia, but I visited my Southside county in the past year. I have an old friend who works in the school district. He told me that 70% of the kids in one high school are considered “at risk.” They can’t find a physics teacher who will move there for the money they can afford to pay. The chemistry labs in both high schools have only two hoods, and those are both made of wood and breakable glass and are from the 1950s era. The average class size in elementary school is the same as when I was a kid … around 37 kids per teacher. </p>
<p>And here you want … MORE! MORE FOR ME!!! GIVE ME MORE ADVANTAGES!!!</p>
<p>I see you guys (or gals as the case may be) running a race in which you’re given 21-speed racing bicycles and other kids are forced to run with 20 lb. balls attached by chains to their ankles. And when you get to the finish line, you look back on those kids in shackles and say, "Look Mommy and Daddy! I WON!!! Look at me!!! Look at me!!!</p>