schoolteacher

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“My father built a cabin and gardened; we raised chickens and sheep. My mother was a schoolteacher who sewed all my clothes and dolls.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2026

There was Molly Hollis, a middle-aged, Midwestern former schoolteacher whose creation required body padding and a wig; a flamboyant redhead; a nearly invisible elderly woman; and, most uncannily, Reichl’s own mother.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2026

Sanchez, a 57-year-old congressman draws on the rural background of his mentor, former president Pedro Castillo, a schoolteacher jailed after a failed attempt to dissolve Congress in 2022.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

His accountant father never showed any interest, he said, but his schoolteacher mother, Ella, “read it all,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

They said he had married and when the children came, had decided that there was more money in being a school engineer than in being a schoolteacher.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith