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Show 30, Jeffries, Islamorada [Section 2] Early on Mr. Clayton had run into the old guard. He'd had to cover a class and he couldn't make much progress with the Jessaymn West story; he had to agree with the class that that part of Friendly Persuasion was a bore. "Well we heard about that. And who are you to criticize?" The old teachers had asked. "Your unworkmanlike attitude. Would you care to go up against the textbook selection committee?" "Are they something like the cardinals of the church?' Helots. Hierarchic. The strikebreakers. Surviving the mass firing of Florida's teachers. Wagging a finger about 1963, when 7,000 were cut out. The lost legions. We're certainly better off without them. And now, when the shop stewards and their Monroe County 'Tigers', militant for a fifty-dollar raise run into these pensionaries, they are advised "My first contract was for $700. Obey your higher-ups.' Dory is warned that one of the fired teachers will be around to call. Rather pathetic. With the pictures of his worried-looking children. He means to sell an encyclopedia. Going on like that baby guru: 'Here's how you can get the knowledge. . .' As was so often the case, the softball teams were run by the churches, and Dory had been warned that if he wanted to play for the Kirk of the Keys, he was in |