The MEATs'
by Jay Dubya 
The teachers on the high school faculty felt a great deal of anxiety and stress
from always having to be perfect role models and knowing that at any time a
parent or a student or a student conspiracy could fabricate some outlandish lie
and get an instructor suspended. The men teachers had our own fraternity, which
met (usually at bars) several times a year both in our town and out of our
community. The MEATs was our unprofessional organization, and the acronym stood
for "Men's Epicurean Association of Teachers." The MEATs was a convenient safety
valve where the male faculty members could let off steam and it was a terrific
escape mechanism from the rigors of teaching.
The MEATs had nothing to do with the local teachers' association, the New Jersey
Educational Association or the NEA. The loosely configured "teachers'
fraternity" was an appropriate emotional outlet because it afforded the men
teachers a chance to have male bonding, to commiserate and also to get away from
the mental anguish associated with educational pressure. Our beer and venison
bashes unveiled our hidden carnivorous natures and gave us a way of basically
thinking and behaving like primitive Neanderthal Men. Some of the guys on the
high school faculty were accomplished hunters so boar, deer and bear meat were
often on the dinner menu.
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