What is wrong with my defintion of the function prompt_int?

I have been trying to program a maths quiz that both works and is as efficient as possible. Looking over my code I saw I had a lot of integer inputs and that lead to me having the program to ask the question/exit the system if the criteria isn't met, so to help me I thought that it would be useful to create a new function. Here is my attempt:

def prompt_int(prompt=''):
    while True:
        if status == prompt_int(prompt=''):
            val = input(prompt)
            if val in (1,2):
                return int(val)
                return true
        elif status != prompt_int(prompt=''):
            val = input(prompt)
            if val in (1,2,3):
                return int(val)
                return true
        else:
            print("Not a valid number, please try again")

However, when I try to implement this function around my code it doesn't work properly as it says that status isn't defined however, when I do define status it goes into a recursion loop. How can I fix this problem?

Here is my original code before i try to implement this function:

import sys
import random
def get_bool_input(prompt=''):
    while True:
        val = input(prompt).lower()
        if val == 'yes':
            return True
        elif val == 'no':
            return False
        else:
            sys.exit("Not a valid input (yes/no is expected) please try again")
status = input("Are you a teacher or student? Press 1 if you are a student or 2 if you are a teacher")# Im tring to apply the new function here and other places that require integer inputs
if status == "1":
    score=0
    name=input("What is your name?")
    print ("Alright",name,"welcome to your maths quiz."
            "Remember to round all answer to 5 decimal places.")
    level_of_difficulty = int(input(("What level of difficulty are you working at?\n"
                                 "Press 1 for low, 2 for intermediate "
                                    "or 3 for high\n")))
    if level_of_difficulty not in (1,2,3):
        sys.exit("That is not a valid level of difficulty, please try again")
    if level_of_difficulty == 3:
        ops = ['+', '-', '*', '/']
    else:
        ops = ['+', '-', '*']
    for question_num in range(1, 11):
        if level_of_difficulty == 1:
            number_1 = random.randrange(1, 10)
            number_2 = random.randrange(1, 10)
        else:
            number_1 = random.randrange(1, 20)
            number_2 = random.randrange(1, 20)
        operation = random.choice(ops)
        maths = round(eval(str(number_1) + operation + str(number_2)),5)
        print('\nQuestion number: {}'.format(question_num))
        print ("The question is",number_1,operation,number_2)
        answer = float(input("What is your answer: "))
        if answer == maths:
            print("Correct")
            score = score + 1
        else:
            print ("Incorrect. The actual answer is",maths)
    if score >5:
        print("Well done you scored",score,"out of 10")
    else:
        print("Unfortunately you only scored",score,"out of 10. Better luck next time")
    class_number = input("Before your score is saved ,are you in class 1, 2 or 3? Press the matching number")
    while class_number not in ("1","2","3"):
        print("That is not a valid class, unfortunately your score cannot be saved, please try again")
        class_number = input("Before your score is saved ,are you in class 1, 2 or 3? Press the matching number")
    else:
        filename = (class_number + "txt")
        with open(filename, 'a') as f:
            f.write("\n" + str(name) + " scored " + str(score) +  " on difficulty level " + str(level_of_difficulty))
        with open(filename, 'a') as f:
            f = open(filename, "r")
            lines = [line for line in f if line.strip()]
            f.close()
            lines.sort()
        if get_bool_input("Do you wish to view previous results for your class"):
            for line in lines:
                print (line)
        else:
            sys.exit("Thanks for taking part in the quiz, your teacher should discuss your score with you later")
if status == "2":
    class_number = input("Which classes scores would you like to see? Press 1 for class 1, 2 for class 2 or 3 for class 3")
    if class_number not in (1,2,3):
        sys.exit("That is not a valid class")
    filename = (class_number + "txt")
    with open(filename, 'a') as f:
        f = open(filename, "r")
        lines = [line for line in f if line.strip()]
        f.close()
        lines.sort()
        for line in lines:
            print (line)