Getting Recommedation from Retired Teacher

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I am in the process of completing the Common Application and have come to the part where I am instructed to invite teachers to complete the Teacher Evaluation form. My problem is this:</p>

<p>(1) The teacher I would like to ask retired from our high school last year. Am I correct to assume that the only way he could do the Teacher Evaluation form is to complete the paper version of it and mail it in?</p>

<p>(2) If he mails a paper version of the Teacher Evaluation form to the college, won't the School Forms section of my application appear as though I didn't ask that teacher since I couldn't invite him electronically. And, since the college I am applying to requires at least one Teacher Evaluation, won't my Common App show up as being incomplete, since the retired teachers "Invite" wouldn't appear on it?</p>

<p>Any help or advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated!!!</p>

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<p>Does the retired teacher have an email address? If so, you can invite the teacher electronically. At least, you could last year.</p>

<p>My S asked a teacher he had sophomore and junior years to provide a letter of recommendation. The teacher retired after S’s junior year. S was able to invite the teacher using his non-HS email address. Actually, he ended up using a non-HS email address for his other teacher recommendation, because the school district’s email server was blocking non-district email correspondence.</p>