It has been my honor and pleasure to teach your students this year. We have shared some really great memories this year.
This poem I sent home earlier this week expresses some of my feelings of appreciation for allowing me to be your students’ teacher this year:
I give you back your student, the same child you confidently entrusted to my care last fall. I give them back inches taller, months wiser, more responsible, and more mature then they was then.
Although they would have attained their growth in spite of me, it has been my pleasure and privilege to watch their personality unfold day by day and marvel at this splendid miracle of development.
I give them back reluctantly, for having spent one year together in the narrow confines of a crowded classroom, we have grown close, have become a part of each other, and we shall always retain a little of each other.
Ten years from now if we met on the street, they and I, a light will shine to our eyes, a smile to our lips, and we shall feel the bond of understanding once more, this bond we feel today.
We have lived, loved, laughed, played, studied, learned, and enriched our lives together this year. I wish it could go on indefinitely, but give them back I must. Take care of them, for they are precious.
Remember that I shall always be interested in them and their destiny, wherever they goes, whatever they do, whoever they become. Their joys and sorrows, I’ll be happy to share.
I shall always be their friend.
Love,
Mrs. Yates
That was great! Thank you so much for all that you have done. You have been an AMAZING teacher and been such a great example. You have gone way above and beyond the top and have made such a big impact on Lexi's life. You have made leaps and bounds in her confidence and self esteem and her desire to work hard and want to learn new things and to always try her best. I can't believe the change I've seen in her this year, you have done such a wonderful job. Thank you for all that you have done, for being and doing more than you had to. A great teacher really makes a big difference in a childs life. Thank you so much. We will miss you dearly as we move on, but good luck to you and all of your endeavors. Thank you for sharing yourself with us this year, we truly have enjoyed it. Hopefully we'll share another journey in a few years:) Thank you!!!
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