<p>I have a dilemma. I haven't taken any outside courses and I know I'll need a teacher recommendation from someone other than my mom. What should I do?</p>
<p>I was thinking of getting a professor to look over my work and write something about it. Will this look too sketchy?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>My son had recommendations from the local public library head (a home school mother), and from a neighbor with an interesting history in education. That recommender was a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard grad who felt his most important educational experience was to be left alone to do what he wanted to in his one-room schoolhouse in upper New Hampshire.
My daughter used two ballet teachers.
The schools they applied to didn't seem to have a problem with these type of recommendations. While they didn't have anything to say about academic classroom performance, the people who recommended them knew them for many, many years in a variety of settings. I didn't read the recommendations, but they were in positions to provide much detail that would be difficult for most classroom teachers to do.</p>
<p>Thanks danas! You've eased my mind greatly.</p>