Scott Dangerfield was an early fan favorite to win this year’s "American Idol."
At the Milwaukee auditions, Jennifer Lopez told him “You might be the best I have seen so far,” after his soulful rendition of Amos Lee’s “Dreamin.” Randy Jackson gave him a “100-million-percent yes.”
After that, Dangerfield was on his way to Hollywood. Or at least it seemed so.
When Hollywood Week kicked off in Los Angeles on February 10, Dangerfield was braving 15 degree weather over 2,000 miles away. He didn’t miss his flight, he wasn’t sick, he was doing what he felt was more important.
“I love where I’m at right now. The high school I teach is great. I have 96 awesome students, hopefully they feel the same way about me,” Dangerfield told FOX411.
The 22 year-old University of Wisconsin senior is in his last semester of student teaching—an experience he decided was more important than the lights, fame, and opportunities of Idol. When the show’s producers told him the dates of the next round of competition, he realized it fell right in the middle of his final semester of classes and his student teaching experience at a local high school.
“Honestly at the time it didn’t even really feel like a choice to me,” Dangerfield says. “I’ve made an obligation to my so-operating teacher, my students, and the university, and I can’t go back on that. So I just called them up and told them I can’t continue.”
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