Why? A Message From a Former Student

 I wouldn't normally post this personal message to me, but it touched me deeply.

Lena Dreher-Heflin

Kurt Heaton

17 hrs  · 

I have been going thru boxes of keepsakes and pictures. I found a letter you wrote to my parents when I was in high school. We had done a unit on economics and I finished all of it before anyone else and with a high grade. You praised my hard work and said I was going to accomplish something in my life. I want you to know how much that letter meant to me. No one had ever told me I was intelligent, nor saw me in that way. Thank you for that letter and giving a student a pat on the back that was needed. I have wanted to tell you this for years. You gave me confidence in myself and I appreciate that you took the time to write that letter. I will never forget your kindness. My parents never really valued education and did not care about my grades or accomplishments. I am glad that you did. I became a Pre K to 9th grade teacher and then went on to get my library science. Graduating Suma Cum Laude. You had a part in this and I wanted you to know. Thanks so much for helping me to see I was more than I ever believed. Amazing teachers are the worlds best resource.

5G Denise Dreher Phipps, Judy Kramer Starrett and 3 others

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• Kurt Heaton

  thank you so much. 

  

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