Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 28, 2015

Hah. I just remembered an incident that happened to me in Jr.High. I was in seventh grade and had to take OHIO history. One of the assignments was a report on an Ohio historical site. Well, my father is a history buff and suggested I write a report on Fort Laurens during the American Revolutionary war… built to defend against the British garrison in Detroit. It was attacked many times and there were American army casualties. It is a recognized historical site… My dad took me to the library and helped me find out the history of Ft. Laurens. then I had to take notes and compose it several times until he was satisfied with the accuracy… spelling, grammar etc. I handed it in and received an F because the teacher said it never happened and I had made it up… I was upset and even told the teacher that I had looked it up in the public library. He told me not to lie to him again…

Boy was my dad Pissed off. My dad is a DDS… He is no dummy and at the time of the incident he was a member of the Local School Board. He took the paper with the teacher’s marks and notes, that this never happened and said to me…"Son don’t worry about this I’ll handle it…that was the last I heard of the incident. Until two years later when he mentioned that this particular teacher’s contract was not renewed and an addendum was added to his file that he didn’t know his subject and caution should be used if he were to be hired at another school district… this paper was written in 1964-65. A long time ago.