That's one of the bad things about dying young. He taught elementary school and drove a bus before moving on to head several schools in Virginia, Georgia and Alabama. Just to add another dose of reality, he was fired only once. He tried to integrate an independent school in 1989. The admission of a black student was more than Suffolk, Virginia could handle and the racist school board fired him.
Racism is still real.
It is also still real stupid. This is my mom. That's me with the bad hair at my graduation from Princeton in 1995. Scout is in the chair and Samantha is looking on from below. Eating is frequently a spectator sport in the Barrett households.