Nothing to See Here One of the hallmarks of an autocracy is to go after the teachers. Teachers. Seriously, the people who get crappy pay for trying to put information in your childâs head. I donât know if youâve met your kid, but heâs an idiot. I canât even get him to stop kicking the back of my seat on an airplane. And yet some teacher takes that idiot child of yours and gets him to understand the themes in Huckleberry Finn. If I had to do that job, Iâd search for a quiet spot to commit suicide.