When I was seven years old, I was enamored of the Apollo Program and aware that the President was in charge of the country, but not yet politically savvy enough to understand what it meant that he was Nixon. So I wrote a letter to the President asking how to become an astronaut, and inviting him to dinner if he was ever in town.

The White House responded with what I now know to be a standard letter and package of promotional material, and NASA kindly did the same. By the end of it all, I felt pretty important, but also understood I had to get through at least college before they’d strap me to the top of a Saturn V.  I was seven.

Meet Georgia Clark, an English teacher at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter-Riverside High since 1998. Her twitter handle, @Rebecca1939, has been recently deleted, but seems to suggest she’s 80 years old, or perhaps she’s enamored of the year Hitler invaded Poland. She claims to have edited her college newspaper in the Vietnam era.  Suffice to say, she’s somewhere north of seven years old.

Georgia had to delete her Twitter account, and change her phone numbers, because she thought she was sending a private Twitter Direct Message (DM) to Hair Twitler, the imPOTUS himself, which contained both her home and cell numbers in case he wanted to reach her, urgently. Sadly, Georgia’s messages were transmitted for the whole world to see.

What the world saw was racism.

You see, Georgia was completely disgusted by all the Mexicans ruining her school and her country. Her school had been “taken over” by “illegal students from Mexico.” She had “contacted the feds… and the person I spoke with did not want to… even listen to me.” (Small wonder.)  She needed “protection from recrimination should I report it to the authorities… the Mexicans refuse to honor our flag,” she whined.  “Anything you can do to remove the illegals from Fort Worth would be greatly appreciated.”

What happened next mystified her. “I asked for help…what I received was an alarming tweet from someone identifying himself as one of your assistants… followed by a second tweet with the f word…” While that certainly sounds like a Trump assistant, Georgia cannily “deleted” the tweets and reported them to Twitter.  Never mind that you can’t delete someone else’s tweet (you can block or mute the sender) but Twitter-savvy does not seem to belong to Georgia’s skill set.

What is in her skill set is a history of racist remarks to students  in a district that is 63% Hispanic.  Her tweets have included reminding Twitler of his promise to build a wall. She was suspended and reassigned from another high school after referring to the student body as “Little Mexico” and separating her class with non-Hispanic kids on one side referred to as Americans, and the kids on the other side as Mexico. Once a child asked for a bathroom break; she demanded to see his papers.

Texas once had laws that denied funding for undocumented children, and some public school districts attempted to charge them tuition to make up for the lost funds.  But in 1982, the Supreme Court struck all that down in a 5-4 ruling in Plyler v Doe.

Undaunted by settled law, Georgia’s not-so-secret messages ended up insisting to the President of the United States, “I really do need a contact here in Fort Worth who should be investigating and removing the illegals that are in the public school system.”

Georgia Clark, code name: rebecca1939, high school English teacher by day, secret ICE agent evenings and weekends.

I was seven.

What’s her excuse?

Happily, this evening, after an hour of public commentary, the Fort Worth ISD voted 8-0 to strap her to a Saturn V.  Georgia Clark was terminated for cause.