Realization about my math teachers

Yesterday, after thinking about Derrick's first day in middle school (which wasn't bad -- his second day, however...), I started thinking about my own middle and high school days. During this, I came to a realization that was interesting now, but unnoticed at the time.

From sixth grade, through 12th grade, I had six different math teachers and five of them were Hispanic men. The one exception was my 10th grade geometry teacher, who was a white woman.

I also had at least one male Hispanic math professor in college, who happened to be the head of the department at UNM (or became head a few years later).
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