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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a secondary teacher. I’ve gotten letters thanking me for teaching them the subject, for helping them achieve more than they thought they could, for running a tight ship that allowed learning to occur in a calm environment, and other specifics that made me feel good. But the best one that I ever received was a letter from a student who told me they always knew they would be treated with respect when they were in my class or with me. I cried. [/quote]

Beautiful. I'm a retired secondary history teacher and can think back on many wonderful letters and messages I have received from students.  But one of the best was in reponse to a large project I would assign my 11th grade US History students each year.  When studying immigration, I would give them a multi-part project where they had to research their heritage and write a paper on the history of their ethnic group's immigration to the US.  Then they would research their own family's journey and write about it.  I had kids who traced their families back several generations, and I had kids who were immigrants themselves.  It was a very personal and meaningful assignment.  One year I had a girl who was adopted from a country that was a completely different ethnicity/culture from her adoptive family.  She struggled to decide whether she should write about her biological ethnicity, or that of her adoptive family.  In the end she chose her adoptive family and when her father came for parent-teacher conferences, he cried and said it was a major turning point in her life and their family that she chose to identify with their culture and ethnicity.  He said it was the best assignment he had seen any teacher give to their students.  I was really touched by his raw honesty.[/quote]

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