Don't Mess With Texas

[Mortblanc]

Lately I have been remembering my school experiences more and more and wondering about the present methods of teacher selection.

My Second grade teacher was a very efficient woman that had been in the Army WW2.

The 7th grade teacher was a retired Navy CPO that had gone into education on retirement.

In secondary school I remember sitting in Ed Lowe's English class. Mr Lowe had been with Patton's 3rd Army as armored cavalry platoon leader.

Across the hall was a guy named Mr. Modrel, he had been a Marine in Korea.

Our headmaster had been a battalion commander in the 1st Division at Normandy.

It was like that all up and down the school hallway.

Even when I began teaching every teacher in my wing of the school was prior service in some branch of combat arms.

We did not have shootings in our school. We did not even have back talk in our school.

All this started when the entire educational system fell under control of the draft dodging hippies of the Viet Namn era, and schools became the most wuzzy places on earth.

Today our teacher selection process is not based on prior experience, veterans status, and it is not based on performance in college. Selection is based on having the proper letters of recommendation from the proper politicians before one can even obtain an interview for a position. Most of the veterans belong to the "wrong political party" to make what the system considers competent teachers. They are too conservative due to their life experiences.