This novel vividly portrays the change in family patterns, values, and relationships in a society where miscegenation has now been accepted with a more tolerant viewpoint. It takes three teachers from the staid, sterile setting of the schoolroom into the outside world where lesson plans, rules, and regulations do not apply. They can no longer play the role of matriarch. A new life style is enforced upon them when the steadying structure of the educational fortress is removed. The Innocent Schoolteacher makes no moralistic statement about the sanctity of family life nor any comment about the state of schools and educators in America. It pinpoints the perils of the changing times we live in and notes the mores of the modern male and female as they move about the jungle of life. Rod Waleman catches the spirit of the nonconformist and crystallizes the action into a spellbinding saga that may well make readers ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?"