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By that third week, I was singing everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Hunt plans to go into music education, thanks to Maclin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That brings tears to my eyes when he told me that at the beginning of the school year,&#8221; Maclin said of Hunt.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dedication to academic excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Maclin, who began singing in church as a child, decided to dedicate his life to teaching when he was in high school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For almost 20 years, he has taken his choirs around the country to showcase their talents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are kids that come in, they&#8217;re dealing with things. They&#8217;re troubled. I&#8217;ve had kids come in homeless and my smile, me caring for them, I know that I&#8217;ve made a change in them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maclin insists his students&#8217; talents need to include academic excellence in addition to their singing abilities. In his class, you&#8217;ll find the school&#8217;s top three academic achievers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A funny saying he has is, he&#8217;s not going to take around a bunch of singing dummies around the country,&#8221; Aguilar said, laughingly.<\/p>\n<p>He also reminds his students they are representing not only themselves, but a community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a lot of pressure because we&#8217;re a choir of predominantly African Americans or like minority students. So we already have a vision in other people&#8217;s minds of what we are,&#8221; said Natalya Crosby, who was her class valedictorian. &#8220;It was just like, &#8216;OK, let&#8217;s go in whenever we sing, whenever we perform and let&#8217;s show them that we&#8217;re more than whatever they could think that we are.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His students say they&#8217;re grateful for Maclin&#8217;s unwavering support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for believing in a kid who probably sometimes didn&#8217;t believe himself,&#8221; Aguilar said. &#8220;You mean the world to me. 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