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I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Frank McCourt
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Frank McCourt: life dates 1930 to 2009. Wikidata Q208869, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208869 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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