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No clue. I attended a mega-high school with several thousand students, and I did not have a close relationship with any of my teachers other than the orchestra director, because I was quite talented (I know that sounds awfully conceited, but it's true). To the rest I was just a number. Weirdly, I did not pursue a music career. I was too burned out at eighteen to even consider performance or education as a vocation.
From elementary through high school, I was repeatedly told to become a lawyer. I had a tendency to argue and nitpick about classroom/school policies. My 6th grade shop teacher suggested drafting because I was good at it. Ended up in engineering where I argue and nitpick over drawings and specifications.
The one time I met with the guidance counselor, he just acted shocked when I said I wanted to be a high school English teacher instead of something in the sciences. I was in AP biology, but only because it was a requirement to take science and I wanted to test out of it in college. Ha.
The only other teacher who ever said anything about my future was my 8th grade English teacher. On the last day of school, when people were filing by hugging her, shy and morose me tried to sneak out behind her back. She grabbed my arm, pulled me over quick and whispered, "Keep writing" in my ear, then nodded at me and let me go.
Never finished college. The idea to be a teacher petered out before it even started. And it took me a while (15 years post high school), but I am now a writer and couldn't be happier. I've tried to find her a few times over the years but never had much luck.
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