I stared at the photo while Kent Buckley talked on and on, building up to a genuine rant about how the American school system had gone soft, and how we all needed to toughen up, and how if we weren’t careful, these kids were going to be a generation of hippies, nerds, and weaklings. This to a group of teachers made up exclusively of hippies, nerds, and weaklings. Yet another reason Kent Buckley was unlikable. He had no idea how to read a room.




