schoolteacher

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He graduated from Alabama State College in 1960 with a bachelor’s in music and worked briefly as a schoolteacher before beginning his professional music career.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 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

Gil Kerley was born in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the still-segregated South, the only child of a schoolteacher and a college econ professor.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

The second part honors David Rhys Jones, a schoolteacher at Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi in Cardigan, Wales, who taught the study's lead author.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

Miss Collins, the schoolteacher, gave it to me on the last day of school for getting the best marks in geography.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney