Yes. I do. I've shown some potential. This is why I am going to be an English teacher.
I dropped out of high school.
I was accepted into the honors program at a community college after I had matured some and found a love for reading. My first honors teacher was the head of the program. The class was a required honors literature course.
I could go on and on with this story, but she found herself impressed with me, how much and what I read, and particularly how I wrote. I took another course with her. Because the teacher would work with the student on a semester long honors project, teachers were expected to spend some extra time with honors students. She went beyond that. She taught me everything she knew about writing. By the end of my time there, she had nominated me for class representative--to give a speech at commencement--and she requested to frame one of my essays in her office. I keep in touch with her and she's invited me over to her house a few times.
Since then, I've received verification. She wasn't just obsessed with me. I'm now at a major university. My last semester, I took two English courses with a "hard professor." He made multiple statements about not giving perfect grades. He just wanted to see improvement. Nearly all of my papers were perfect grades and he told me he gave me the first 16/15 he's ever given. I begged for guidance from him, because I desperately want to write, to be published like him. My papers were free from pen marks outside of banal comments. When we talked, he apologized and said, "I haven't paid as much attention to your work because you are so far ahead of the rest of the class." Most teachers I've written for have praised me. I have a 4.0 with about a year left on my bachelor's.
I say this all--not to gloat--to give a little background. I got F's in English in High School. I got a B- in composition 1 at my community college when I first went. I took years off after that. When I came back, I had passion and teachers noticed me. I'm going to continue to write and teach people how to write, how to find passion in their writing. When I write essays in school, I work in stuff I'm passionate about, that I find interesting. I never get punished for it. Writing is a release and you can do almost anything with it if you do it the right way.