John Surratt Jr. as a teacher

[wsanto]

Did Surratt have any qualifications to be a teacher-or a principal? Also, I find it curious that a person connected in the way he was with the Lincoln assassination would be hired as staff at a school anyway.

It seems to me that the only qualification for teaching back then was a willingness to teach and some level of education greater that your students.

Having escaped the gallows himself you would think he might be a little more merciful than the average teacher...I guess not.