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‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’ | SENTENCE MINING 06



  1. Maybe by osmosis, maybe by prayer, maybe by a miracle I would one day learn to read.
  2. So I graduated from college, and when I graduated there was a teacher shortage and I was offered a job. 
  3. It was the most illogical thing you can imagine - I got out of the lion's cage and then I got back in to taunt the lion again. 
  4. Why did I go into teaching? 
  5. Looking back it was crazy that I would do that. But I'd been through high school and college without getting caught - so being a teacher seemed a good place to hide. 
  6. I remember how fearful I was.
  7. I couldn't even take the roll - I had to ask the students to pronounce their names so I could hear their names. 
  8. And I always had two or three students who I identified early - the ones who could read and write best in the classroom - to help me. 
  9. One of my biggest fears was faculty meetings. 
  10. We had them once a week and if the teachers were brainstorming the principal would call on somebody to get those ideas on to the board.
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