I didn’t have that happen, I had worse. My middle school science teacher hand drew his own sort of evolution comic book which taught, you know, evolution. He was kind of pushed out of teaching. It made an impact on me though…
Texas though, not Kansas. Texas is considered by some to be in the south, but not by all. It’s definitely not the “old South” but it’s still the “Bible belt” and probably more backwards than half of the actual south.