[Erik P Conard]

You may be somewhere there is little mobility. I never saw much
involvement in the Jaycees, service or fraternal clubs, with any of
the teachers in my forty plus years around the ed biz.
Teachers are a mobile lot, too, and that does not enhance the
laying down of roots as it does in other professions.
Ask almost anybody in almost any town about involvement in the
civic side...for teachers. Many feel they wear a hair shirt. But it
may indeed be true, there in Tennessee, that you have a very active cadre.
College teachers are even less involved....