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

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

His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a truck driver with no connections in the music industry.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

The church service lasts twice as long now because the Reverend has to say it once in English, and then the schoolteacher Tata Anatole repeats it all in Kikongo.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver