Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Students want female teachers to be warm and nurturing. When they aren't, they get marked down across the board for being 'bitches." What's a bitch? A woman who acts like a confident guy. Women are also not allowed to be dry or funny. You can imagine how my Asperger's can go over.

What I hear from a lot of teachers is . . . :

We have doctors, lawyers, judges, CEOs, teachers, surgeons, everybody from all walks of life,

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

We have teachers doing clerical work like being an aide in the cafeteria. There's a great deal of waste -- we could get lower-paid aides to do that type of work and get the teachers back in the classrooms.