Dallas News – by Robert Wilonsky
A few days ago a friend forwarded the missive you see here, a note sent from a student to a West Mesquite High School teacher named Jennifer Davis. He was passing it along, said this friend, because he thought it was “pretty cool,” a touching thank-you that became its own little gift at this most wonderful time of the year.
Davis has given us permission to share it with the OK of her Algebra I student, 16-year-old Shayla Godbey. Says Davis, what made this missive most unexpected was its author: “Like she says,” Davis offers, “she’s not my most talkative of students.”
Davis, who grew up in Mesquite and attended North Mesquite High School, has been teaching locally for four years; before that she spent a year in Korea teaching English. She says she’s never received a letter like this one. Most teachers don’t.
“It’s always so wonderful when you get something like this, because you never have that kind of interaction with your students,” says Davis, who received the letter Thursday. “And she hit all the things I want a student to notice. You could tell it was … genuine. It gave me goosebumps.”
This is what being a teacher used to be all about. Teaching the kids of tomorrow and being rewarded in the heart for it, as you feel that you know you’ve actually done what few people in the world could do and that is you’ve made a difference in a child’s life.
Now they just sue the shit out of you for sexual harassment because you just tapped them on the shoulder saying, “Good job!”.
Log onto 12 year old blasts Canada’s banks.These folks are on the hook for $203 trillion.Maybe they don’t appreciate war or medicare or social security as well as when their forefathers supported the Ponzi schemes and owned houseboats on the Mississipi while bragging how great war is.Most of you are dead and you had a good life (who survived the war)but what was won?Look at our debt.Is financially enslaving your progeny a victory?Seems to me you were as big a fool as any.I really hate those Iranian people now because they want to hurt me like Bin Laden did from those caves in Afghanistan.Why do we spend trillions in defense of people who can arbitrarily murder us from anywhere on a whim?The only people who can do that are our own government.Same folks who knocked the three towers down on9/11.No big statement.No grand theory.Wanna’ war terrorist fighter person?It must be an embarrassment to provide security for the government while taking steroids and proclaiming freedom.I can protect my own property and have no need for defense from my neighbor or a fictitious terrorist but homeland security has made me wonder who the terrorists are.which is another way of saying that I know damn well who they are.And what they are.