The education in that school was good. We used the same textbook in Georgia that they used in a progressive education school in California. I moved to Durham, North Carolina, in 1977. Andy Griffith went to college at Chapel Hill. Then we moved to east Texas, or as they write it there, East Texas.
Most residents have no southern drawl.
Tyler had been the home of the legendary running NFL back, Earl Campbell. This, too, was the New South. Education in the South About 45 minutes east of Tyler is Longview. Longview is the headquarters of Mel and Norma Gabler. This couple has waged an under-funded war against public school textbooks for over two decades.