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==Educational career==
==Educational career==
On August 15, 1970, Thompson received his doctorate in professional education from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg. His dissertation, "A Study of Acts of Disruptive Behaviour Affecting the Utilization of Public School Principal's Time" is the culmination of a seven-year study, which involved contacting 1,450 principals to gain input on school behavioral issues. The work cas cited in ''Principal Magazine'' of the National Association of Secondary and ''The Southern Journal of Education''. By that time he received his terminal degree, Thompson was already working as the Tensas Parish superintendent. His educational career had begun in the middle 1950s at Coushatta in Red River Parish. Later assignments were at Winnsboro High School in Franklin Parish, Mangham High School in Richland Parish, and Ferriday High School in Concordia Parish, just south of Tensas. He was until February 1970 the principal at Ferriday High School, during which time the last wave of school desegregation was completed, sixteen years after ''[[Brown v. Topeka Board of Education]]''.<ref>Hathorn, "Education in Tensas Parish," pp. 35-36.</ref>
On August 15, 1970, Thompson received his doctorate in professional education from the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg. His dissertation, "A Study of Acts of Disruptive Behaviour Affecting the Utilization of Public School Principal's Time" is the culmination of a seven-year study, which involved contacting 1,450 principals to gain input on school behavioral issues. The work was cited in ''Principal Magazine'' of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and ''The Southern Journal of Education''. By that time he received his terminal degree, Thompson was already working as the Tensas Parish superintendent. His educational career had begun in the middle 1950s at Coushatta in Red River Parish. Later assignments were at Winnsboro High School in Franklin Parish, Mangham High School in Richland Parish, and Ferriday High School in Concordia Parish, just south of Tensas. He was until February 1970 the principal at Ferriday High School, during which time the last wave of school desegregation was completed, sixteen years after ''[[Brown v. Topeka Board of Education]]''.<ref>Hathorn, "Education in Tensas Parish," pp. 35-36.</ref>
===Tensas Parish superintendent===
===Tensas Parish superintendent===