One day last fall Teacher Elsie May Peters walked into her junior high school classroom in Knoxville, Tenn., smelled an odd aroma and snapped: "What jackass turned on that gas?"
Last week, after a 4½-day open hearing in which she was defended by Lawyer Ray Jenkins (Army-McCarthy hearings) Teacher Peters was cleared of any misconduct (and of the subsidiary charge of accepting trading stamps for good grades), told to use only language that was "characteristic of [her] profession."
Unexamined and unsolved was the central question: What jackass turned on that gas?
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