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

Kufwema, kuzikisa, kugam-bula, smoothly the words rolled forward and I realized this slick trick schoolteacher could be saying anything under the sun.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver