This is a true story about Coach King and Vice Principal Irene Suarez
Intro
Academics were very important to my family and therefore a lot of time and money invested. One of those methods was through an education at Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth, Texas. Not being Catholic, the whole being miserable and low-down bothered me so much instead of bowing my head I’d close my eyes and look up.
If they wanna look at the dirt, so be it, I wanna be heard.
All photos taken by me from yearbooks in my possession. At the end there is another note. The only reason I’m finally all-out comfortable writing this is I’m in the Journalism business and this is a noteworthy story no matter if it was 25 years ago. I remember it clearly.
Meet Coach Jack King
Coach King “taught” a handful of computer courses, and looking back, yeah he taught C++ from a book. He mostly just ran our stuff through the compiler for errors. Once we figured out he wasn’t as good as we were getting, and his attitude was pretty condescending and shitty, well, he did it to himself. Really, what follows will totally click.
During C++ class, a small sub-group figured out how to enable and use the built-in basic text…
