Thank God for our “backward” ways here in WV. As you say, the teachers are pretty conservative. We even managed to get a Tea Party guy on the Board of Ed. They are pretty much the same way along the Ohio River on the Ohio side. Probably because so many WV folks move over there. My DIL is a kindergarten teacher and the school where she teaches is gung ho patriotic and conservative. The kids even put on a great appreciation show for the fathers who are vets last fall. There were many “cloudy” eyes that day.
Sigh. America. It is still out there somewhere. Sometimes, just not here.