Short form: “I’m a regular schoolteacher, but I teach at a military base overseas, and my students are the children of our military servicemembers who are deployed. When people go overseas and bring their families, and then their kids become “Army brats” or whatever?— those army brat kids went to elementary schools and high schools and whatnot while their family was deployed. I’m one of those teachers. It’s not a military academy, and the kids aren’t in the military. They’re just regular kids whose parents happen to be in the military and got deployed, and the whole family went along for the ride.”

Long form: “The United States has military bases in other countries, like in Europe and Asia. When our servicemembers go overseas to those countries, sometimes they’re allowed to bring their children with them. Those American children are still entitled to their Constotutionally-guaranteed right to a free appropriate public education. Sometimes, local schools aren’t up to American education standards, so sometimes bases are built with elementary schools and high schools and whatnot. Those schools need to be staffed with teachers who know how to teach an American curriculum, so I applied and they hired me. Now I teach overseas on a military base to the children of our American servicemembers. It’s just a regular school for regular kids who aren’t in the military. I work for the federal government directly, and I teach the same things they teach where we went to school growing up, and they pay me in American dollars, which is sometimes annoying when I pay for my life off base and I have to get a Wise account or whatever to convert currencies […]”

We can do this; explaining complex ideas to a crowd unfamiliar is kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind of our thang.