Pennsylvania

I was a sub for about a year for the Philly schools. That was right literally right around the time when Dr. Connie Clayton took over as the Superintendent (she is still around and recently attended a Philly City Council session that included introduction of a Resolution to commemorate the 175th anniversary of her, my, my mother's and my grandmother's alma mater - the Philadelphia High School for Girls).

The sad thing was - the building I went to middle/junior high in was the same one that my mother went to when it was Girls' High (she was class of '48), and that building is still there as a school, old and decrepit.

Meanwhile during my niece's teen lifetime, I watched as her township, that is literally right across the city line, built not one but TWO brand new schools (for a township the population of my neighborhood).