Many teachers today would have been horsewhipped just 50years ago.

Teachers

Somehow I  found myself in an Honors English class in high school.  I have no idea how that happened, but there were maybe 15 girls, and just 3-4 guys, so that was okay.  Mrs. Frances Meginnis was the best  high school teacher I  had  While reading passages from  The Canterbury Tales, Mrs Meginnis suggested that the best ''tales'' may have been left out of our Chaucer primer, and mentioned a few, like the Miller's Tale.  So it was that  we  found ourselves, on our own time,   reading Tales  in Olde Englysh,and larfing arses off, positively scandalized.  Mrs. Meginnis met our ''achievement'' with a wry, twinkly eye, and no more was said about it.   The Canterbury Tales were a sweeping view of 14th-century English mores and morals , and I learned to love those stories.  Still do. Most of the semester was devoted to Shakespeare, and here too Mrs. Meginnis was masterful.  Much of her lecture was devoted to the telling of fascinating anecdotes about life in Shakespeare's England..  She felt it was impossible to appreciate any period literature without a good grounding in the the society which produced it, and so it was that Shakespeare came alive for us.  I loved it all (but not the sonnets- ick), and her too. Today I find myself listening to Old Time Radio on XM radio.  The Whistler, The Shadow, Lux Radio Theater - shows from the 30's-40's are featured daily, and reflect the accepted social values of that time in our history. Anybody wanting to experience the social order that ''The Greatest Generation'' lived by,  need only listed to these shows.  There would then be no questioning why many of us cannot understand why these teachers are allowed to keep their jobs, let alone their necks.