He is one the very few to see with clarity just how important whiskey-sodden substitute high school teachers are to this country.
The Bostonian Drunkard has never been a teacher, in the professional sense.
The Bostonian Drunkard has a degree (B.A.) in English literature, not a teaching degree, which is something more.
However, the Bostonian Drunkard has "substitute-taught" on various occasions, making a near-career of it.
Under the state laws covering education in most states, anyone with a four-year college degree, any subject, can "substitute-teach," usually at some
per-diem pay (no benefits), but unless that person returns to college and gets the degree in "education," he can't ever be hired as a permanent teacher.
As we all know, the Bostonian Drunkard no longer teaches, substitute or permanent.
Which could be for one of various reasons given in rumors; surely one of those is true.
There's always some fudging among primitives, but the Bostonian Drunkard, being better educated than most primitives, does it more artfully. His "biography" in wikipedia makes it sound as if he worked as an attorney in an office in San Francisco--makes it sound as--but doesn't outrightly claim he worked as an attorney.
It's written in such a way to give that impression, without lying.
The Bostonian Drunkard worked as a "runner" in an attorney's office in San Francisco, the attorney being a good friend of the paternal ancestor of the Bostonian Drunkard, who himself is an authentic attorney.
