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 A concerned parent of a Texas school student sheds light on borderline systematic abuse by a so-called "educator"

As a serviceman, reading a concerned Texan parent's posting on WebMD about teachers not allowing students to drink water in class, I was rather appalled.

Even when training the world's toughest warriors, drill instructors ensure that their recruits are continuously hydrated. We are talking about training that pushes young men and women physically and mentally to levels they have never imagined attainable. Training is hard, yet it is conducted under professional supervision. Part of that professionalism is allowing recruits to keep taking in water and electrolytes to cope with the grueling climate of the South Carolina sun aboard Parris Island.

If any civilian teacher believes that he or she has the right to withhold water from children (again, let me emphasize the word children, just so it is understood, since apparently having a college education, a post-graduate degree, teaching credentials and often a tenure, do not provide some teachers enough common sense to comprehend the difference between a prisoner of war and an American school child), I respectfully invite him or her to visit Parris Island and participate in the training Marines enthusiastically provide. (On second thought, criminals posing as teachers may not be the best audience to recruit training.) These young recruits have signed up to possibly give their lives in defense of a country where a teacher purposely denies water from students. Being a trainer and an educator myself, I am disgusted that a body of educational authority would allow such an excuse for a mentor to step in front of a class.

Age, a wall full of diplomas and certificates, and a title or position alone do not make a teacher credible or trustworthy. In the spirit of that belief, I have more respect for any of those 18 year olds, fresh out of high school, who will step on a foreign sole in the land of sand, sun, struggle and war, blood and suffering, only to make sure that "educator" can go home and spend a peaceful and safe evening with his or her family. In the meantime, our men and women in uniform in harm's way sincerely hope that the teacher's family has plenty of fresh drinking water on the dinner table.