These students were no doubt just as bright (and dim) as kids from Connecticut and California, but many were starting in a logic hole because they came from deeply religious families and would need to be brought along slowly. (No, Zebidiah, according to carbon dating and, well, everything, the world is a bit older than six thousand years.) If he got his dander up over a little snake handling or Ten Commandments or the worship of AK-47s or a phrase like climate zealot, he would no doubt make trouble for this associate dean.
Yes, right on!
