Weird recommendation situation?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi everyone. I'm in sort of a strange situation.</p>

<p>I've been somewhat close to one of my math teachers for a while now (since 9th grade). I was that student that would just hang out in her room after school and talk, and she's always written recommendations for me for various things.</p>

<p>I was planning to ask her to write my college recommendation until I found out that she retired!! She was always a rather secretive type - no one except the head administrators and a few other math teachers knew that she was leaving.</p>

<p>I could technically still ask her for a rec as she still visits from time to time, but would it be inappropriate, considering she's not technically a teacher anymore? Or would that not matter?</p>

<p>EDIT: Also, she did NOT teach me in the 11th grade, but she did teach me for 9th and 10th grade (and I doubled-up on my math classes in my soph year, so that was an all-year thing).</p>

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<p>The fact that she’s retired is immaterial. I have written letters for former students after I moved from one school to another. And a million years ago when I was applying to college, one of my recommendations came from my Latin teacher, who had retired after the end of my junior year.</p>

<p>The fact that she didn’t teach you after the tenth grade is more relevant than the fact of her retirement, but I think you can still submit a letter from her to any college or university that doesn’t require that the letter come from someone who taught you in eleventh or twelfth grade.</p>