In this reading , I learned that we must first know the

story of a person, or their background. Even thou we

can’t avoid to judge a person in a first meeting. No
matter what are their status in life. We must teach
ourselves to be jus grateful in any aspects of our life. In a
matter of time, all of us would become a teacher. Not
now but soon. A teacher doesn’t always symbolize
schools but it tackles many profound meanings in
one’s life. If we pursue it we will all be in schools
teaching the subjects we once hated, giving
assignments to our students and putting a red mark
on their outputs or quizzes. After that we will learn how
to love and hate our students in every aspect of them “.
One example here is that he failed teddy giving him F’s
and X’s mark because in some ways, with his unpleasant
behavior. And without Mrs. Thompson knowing teddy’s
background, not until when Mrs. Thompson read the
background of their students
Three letters from Teddy Stoddard was a story all
about a student, keeping in touch with his
grade 5 teacher. On the other hand, Mrs. Thompson
description in the story was an insensitive
educator until she found out that one of her student
needs attention. She focused on teddy’s issue
and deficits until Teddy learn how to cope stress
because of the patience, persuasion and
encouragement given by Mrs. Thompson to him. Talking
about the part of the story where I am most touched is
when Teddy gave his gifts to Mrs.
Thompson. The bracelet with incomplete rhinestones
and a half full bottle of perfume was the
turning point of the story. It was the part where
Mrs. Thompson realized that she was being
insensitive to what Teddy really needs. I believe that it
is in our system to like intelligent and
witty kids in classroom and to dislike those who are
out casted. But putting ourselves as
educators in future, we should not be entitled to dislike
the outcasts and the black sheep inside
the classroom, for we all should look equally into our
students whether they are smart or not.
Although Teddy doesn’t know whether his teacher
dislikes him or not, he sees Mrs. Thompson
as his mom and looks highly upon her. For him, his
teacher is like his mother even though the
teacher isn’t making any efforts to help him. My
emotions got high on the part Mrs. Thompson
open Christmas party gifts. It is clearly shown that
the teacher felt guilty about Teddy so she
wept and did her best to help him. In the future, Teddy
succeeded in his chosen career and he
was also lucky because he find love, what more could I
ask for when this happened to me? The
inspiration for this is Teddy’s teacher. We don’t know
what they are going
through, what kind of problems do they have when
they go home or outside school, we don’t
know their story. All we need to do is to be sensitive to
every child needs.