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schoolteachers don't always get the summers off, for some teach during that period as well
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Connecticut women, like the 25-year-old schoolteacher Kezia Peck, traveled great distances to attend Wide Awake rallies, hollering slogans and waving handkerchiefs.
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Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, passed her final days in anguish, enduring severe diarrhea and nausea and terrible sores in her mouth that kept her from eating, drinking, and, eventually, speaking.
—Arthur Allen | Kff Health News, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, a schoolteacher turned politician who led Tanzania as its second post-independence president and helped dismantle the doctrinaire socialism of his predecessor, Julius K. Nyerere, died on Thursday in Dar es Salaam, the country’s former capital.
—Alan Cowell, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
She’s forced to take care of the undisciplined Dawa and winds up getting close with his schoolteacher, Ram Sir (Karma Shakya).
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
The schoolteacher whose roots were split between Brooklyn and Barbados broke the glass ceiling and remained in office for seven terms, representing the 12th congressional district of New York until 1983.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
Both are daughters of schoolteacher moms and banker-farmer dads.
—Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
The online catalog is a resource for anybody from concerned parents to schoolteachers to law enforcement to look up the ever-changing lexicon of extremist symbols and phrases.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
That year, following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the series’ creator Charles M. Schulz received a letter from schoolteacher Harriet Glickman expressing concern about the lack of diversity in the Peanuts comic strip.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2024
Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, passed her final days in anguish, enduring severe diarrhea and nausea and terrible sores in her mouth that kept her from eating, drinking, and, eventually, speaking.
—Arthur Allen | Kff Health News, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, a schoolteacher turned politician who led Tanzania as its second post-independence president and helped dismantle the doctrinaire socialism of his predecessor, Julius K. Nyerere, died on Thursday in Dar es Salaam, the country’s former capital.
—Alan Cowell, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
She’s forced to take care of the undisciplined Dawa and winds up getting close with his schoolteacher, Ram Sir (Karma Shakya).
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
The schoolteacher whose roots were split between Brooklyn and Barbados broke the glass ceiling and remained in office for seven terms, representing the 12th congressional district of New York until 1983.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
Both are daughters of schoolteacher moms and banker-farmer dads.
—Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
The online catalog is a resource for anybody from concerned parents to schoolteachers to law enforcement to look up the ever-changing lexicon of extremist symbols and phrases.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
That year, following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the series’ creator Charles M. Schulz received a letter from schoolteacher Harriet Glickman expressing concern about the lack of diversity in the Peanuts comic strip.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2024
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schoolteacher
noun
school·teach·er
-ˌtē-chər 
: a person who teaches school
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