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.”
Hattip to The Dallas News
