You Know You're From/live in Northern Virginia If...

[Labonte18]

53. You still hold out hope for a Don and Mike reunion
54. You've never driven anywhere without seeing road construction
55. 15 elementary schools and 7 middle schools feed one high school
56. You've ever eaten at a Jerry's Subs and Pizza and a Roy Rogers.
57. When it snows, you abandon your vehicle in the middle of the road.
58. You dread using elevators because of the people who don't use deodorant.
59. You see public transportation in any other city and think you've gone to a third world country.
60. You leave home at 5:30am to be at work by 8am.

[snowdenscold]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

55. 15 elementary schools and 7 middle schools feed one high school

That's a little exaggerated. I believe the most is Oakton HS, w/ 4 middle schools feeding in. Several others have 3. Most have 1 or 2.

[Carlingtonian]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

55. 15 elementary schools and 7 middle schools feed one high school

Hey, those high schoolers eat a lot, and the younger kids are small and bony.

[tgbwc]

Originally Posted by Carlingtonian

Hey, those high schoolers eat a lot, and the younger kids are small and bony.

Nice.

[Labonte18]

Originally Posted by snowdenscold

That's a little exaggerated. I believe the most is Oakton HS, w/ 4 middle schools feeding in. Several others have 3. Most have 1 or 2.

I just remember when I started at Robinson.. Went through the Laurel Ridge->Robinson Jr High->Robinson High route (And a transfer my senior year to Stonewall)... There were so many people I had never met in my new classes.. Now.. back in the day.. This would have been 87-91, give or take.. There weren't as many high schools.. But, probably not as many Elementary schools, either.

[michgc]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

53. You still hold out hope for a Don and Mike reunion

Really? Don and Mike?

[snowdenscold]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

I just remember when I started at Robinson.. Went through the Laurel Ridge->Robinson Jr High->Robinson High route (And a transfer my senior year to Stonewall)... There were so many people I had never met in my new classes.. Now.. back in the day.. This would have been 87-91, give or take.. There weren't as many high schools.. But, probably not as many Elementary schools, either.

Well for the most part the middle schools are mapped 1:1 to high schools. Occasionally you'll get pockets of neighborhoods that don't line up quite as nicely, and in a couple examples a middle school might end up feeding more than one high school (e.g. Kilmer, Jackson, etc.), but generally the majority of middle schools are headed to one spot.

Robinson, Lake Braddock and Hayfield are anomalies in that they're leftovers from the "secondary school" model experiment, where they put grades 7-12 all in one building. So naturally Robinson "middle" feeds into Robinson "high". But other places it's almost strictly something like Irving -> West Springfield, Key -> Lee, Twain -> Edison, Herndon -> Herndon, Langston Hughes -> South Lakes, and so on.

Due to the population of the area, it would be impractical to have a 1:1 mapping between elementary and junior/high schools, since that would either require 100+ high schools, or absolutely enormous elementary schools which would be bad for an educational environment. Some sort of scaling is needed. In other areas of the country a school district will have it's 1 lower grade school and 1 upper grade school (or perhaps 3 levels), with all the kids going from one to the next, and no one new coming in, but that's just not feasible in Northern Virginia.

[someyoungguy]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

57. When it snows, you abandon your vehicle in the middle of the road.
58. You dread using elevators because of the people who don't use deodorant.

lmao, true.

58b - I dread using elevators because of people who use AXE.

[vermonter16]

53. You still hold out hope for a Don and Mike reunion............I would love that!!!!!!! Still listening to Mike and he's still as funny as anything...but Don and Mike - that just couldn't be beat. I loved when they did 'Jew to Jew'.....hilarious!

[NC211]

53. You don't find it odd that advertisements on the radio are for laser missle defense that can track and kill a terrorist's next of kin before they're even born, in the voice-over of the guy who does the advertisments for horror movies.....