Even though I’m a little girl, Taylor Swift She was a poet with a true passion for the written word… so say two of her elementary school teachers.
The educators – Barbara Kolvek It is Brown Heather – recently gave interviews to CBS Philadelphia about the pop star’s love of poetry from a young age.
Kolvek, a retired music teacher, said Taylor often scribbled poems in her first- through fourth-grade class at Wyndcroft School in Pottstown, PA.
Interestingly, Kolvek says he gave Taylor her first singing solo – a song called “Fast Talk Freddie,” while also claiming the two kept in touch for a while. Over the years, Taylor has gifted Kolvek with an autographed t-shirt, a stuffed snowman and other mementos.
“I feel like maybe I gave her a little encouragement or incentive to do what she was doing,” Kolvek said.
Meanwhile, Brown told CBS that she was Taylor’s third-grade teacher and saw a “special quality” in the 14-time Grammy winner.
Brown said Taylor’s greatest strength as a child was attracting her fellow students to everything she did at Wyndcroft.
The teacher explained that she gets super excited every time she sees Taylor on stage knowing, “I was her teacher.”
To this day, Brown still sends Taylor a Christmas card every year, but admits that “she probably doesn’t get the messages anymore.”
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With the release last week of Taylor’s wildly popular album “The Tortured Poets Department” — her 11th album — Brown couldn’t be more thrilled for her former student. She added that everything Taylor touches “turns to gold.”
Truer words were never spoken.