“ But I remember that my journalism teacher, Mr. Jagust, made me feel like I had a gift. I can’t recall exactly what he said, I just remember it made me want to keep going. He just wanted me to write. To this day, I appreciate him so much for that. “
There are so many English teachers whose fingerprints are still all over my brain stem, but the one that sticks out the most was a particularly strict and difficult English teacher in my junior year of high school who rarely complimented anyone’s work. I had written an essay about the senior quad where all the different cliché groups of kids hung out, but I wrote it in the style of Animal Farm. We had peer grading where the first pass was one of your classmates. A boy named Adam read my essay, wrote some terrible comments, and gave it a poor grade, but Mr. Turner crossed it out, gave me an A+ and then wrote below it “Adam misses much.”
I love this article, Mia! I think so many of us can reflect on a teacher who really ruined a subject for us or the many teachers who ramped us up to a level of performance that we didn’t know we could achieve. Thank you for sharing!
I could not live this more:
“ But I remember that my journalism teacher, Mr. Jagust, made me feel like I had a gift. I can’t recall exactly what he said, I just remember it made me want to keep going. He just wanted me to write. To this day, I appreciate him so much for that. “
There are so many English teachers whose fingerprints are still all over my brain stem, but the one that sticks out the most was a particularly strict and difficult English teacher in my junior year of high school who rarely complimented anyone’s work. I had written an essay about the senior quad where all the different cliché groups of kids hung out, but I wrote it in the style of Animal Farm. We had peer grading where the first pass was one of your classmates. A boy named Adam read my essay, wrote some terrible comments, and gave it a poor grade, but Mr. Turner crossed it out, gave me an A+ and then wrote below it “Adam misses much.”
I love this article, Mia! I think so many of us can reflect on a teacher who really ruined a subject for us or the many teachers who ramped us up to a level of performance that we didn’t know we could achieve. Thank you for sharing!
I love all of this so much! I'm so here to put some footprints on the ceiling.