Teacher that changed my life
A teacher alone has the ability to change a student’s life. Agree or disagree.

The school is not a video game which gives immediate gratification, and we cannot

claim that students fall in love in each subject taught. After all, what a teacher teaches daily

are simple tools like speaking a language, solve a math problem or write an essay that are

unlikely by themselves to radically change the lives of students. We all, in our school career,

remembered a hurtful words of teachers, with comments on our grades records for example or

on the opposite hand a teacher who once believed in us, who knew how to restore our

confidence. So a teacher has the ability to change a student lives with sometimes a happy

end but it can also influenced the student in disastrous consequences.

I never saw a reason to do the work. If my teacher didn’t care enough about me to ask why things weren’t getting done, then why should I do them? There was no real reason besides a grade. The motivation just wasn’t high enough to make me care.
Then, I started taking a class with Mrs. Davis as my teacher. When I didn’t do the work, she asked why. She cared. She wanted to know me more than the other teachers seemed to. She wanted to see more than just another face in a desk every day. She wanted that with all her students. She still does. So, I explained things to her. She listened. She paid attention. She remembered and always asked for a follow up. She still does. For the first time since I started school, one of my teachers really seemed to see something other than another face and another grade. I was important. I’d never felt like a teacher found me important.
So I started doing the work. I started wanting to make the grade. I started caring about what other teachers saw in me when they saw my grade. I wanted to be