My recent observations on the lack of respect given public school teachers in Georgia engendered a lot of responses but none better than this story sent to me by my friend, David Egan, co-director of the Initiative to Protect Jekyll Island and a former educator himself. I commend it to those members of the General Assembly who seem to spend more time and effort these days trying to starve public schools to death financially and promoting private school scholarship schemes with no public accountability and with all sorts of opportunity for abuse, rather than giving public school teachers the tools and support they need to succeed. It should provide also some perspective to all those who aren’t in the public school arena and who have no idea what school teachers go through, and who think teachers can close the door on all of society’s problems and blithely manage the bureaucratic and uncoordinated red tape at all levels of government from Washington to the local school board.