[Theodore R.]

Lake Providence is one of the poorest towns in LA. It is rare for teachers in the Deep South to walk off their jobs. Jobs are few and far between in East Carroll Parish.

[Theodore R.]

Administrators are hesitant to suspend students who use profanity. Why? Each time a student is sent home, the school loses money for each day the student is absent. LA, like many states, funds schools on the basis of "the monthly report," which is the number of students attending a school every 20 class days. It could also be that with the coarsening of the culture administrators no longer consider "profanity" to be a "serious" matter.