I was in Grade III Blue in Cugman Elementary school. My teacher was Mrs Barbara Landingin. I was the quiet pupil in the back row. I was bad in Arithmetic as I found memorising those time tables boring. Mrs Landingin must have seen something in me and she showed me shapes, circles and triangles, time, travel, speed and distance. These got me interested and thus began my successes in Academics. It is not until in late High School and early College years that I realised my grade III teacher taught me Geometry, Physics and Algebra though she did not called them that.
To Mrs Landingin thanks heaps.
Regards
Anastacio Ablon
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> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, rhea damasco <rdo_honeywhy@yahoo.com.ph> wrote:
> From: rhea damasco <rdo_honeywhy@yahoo.com.ph>
> Subject: Fw: ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I'VE EVER HEARD!!!
> To: "gens gens" <gens_iloilo@yahoo.com>, "chris 2pi"
> <chris_feb41@yahoo.com.ph>, "joselito sarabia" <bongscm@yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, 5 September, 2008, 1:05 PM
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> Got this from a very, very good friend of mine. I cried after reading
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> As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of
> school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked
> at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that
> was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was
> a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.
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> Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he did
> not play well with the other children, that his clothes were messy and
> that he constantly needed a bath. In addition, Teddy could be
> unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take
> delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and
> then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers.
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> At the school where Mrs. Thompson taught, she was required
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> each child's past records and she put Teddy's off until last. However,
> when she reviewed his file, she was in for a surprise.
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> Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a
> ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners... he is a joy
> to be around.."
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> His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well
> liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a
> terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."
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> His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death has been hard on
> him. He tries to do his best, but his father doesn't show much interest,
> and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken."
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> Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't
> show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he
> sometimes sleeps in class.."
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> now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of
> herself.. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas
> presents, wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright paper, except for
> Teddy's. His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper that
> he got from a grocery bag. Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the
> middle of the other presents. Some of the children started to laugh when
> she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing, and a
> bottle that was one-quarter full of perfume. But she stifled the
> children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was,
> putting it on, and dabbing some of the perfume on her wrist. Teddy
> Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say, "Mrs.
> Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to."
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> After the children left, she cried for at least an hour. On that very
> day, she quit teaching reading,
> writing and arithmetic. Instead, she
> began to teach children. Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to
> Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive. The more
> she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year,
> Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite
> her lie that she would love all the children the same, Teddy became one
> of her "teacher's pets.."
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> A year later, she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her
> that she was the best teacher he ever had in his whole life.
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> Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy.. He then
> wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was
> still the best teacher he ever had in life.
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> Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things
> had been tough at times, he'd stayed in school, had stuck with it, and
> would soon
> graduate from college with the highest of honours. He assured
> Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favourite teacher he had
> ever had in his whole life.
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> Then four more years passed and yet another letter came. This time he
> explained that after he got his bachelor's degree, he decided to go a
> little further. The letter explained that she was still the best and
> favourite teacher he ever had. But now his name was a little longer....
> The letter was signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, MD.
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> The story does not end there. You see, there was yet another letter
> that spring. Teddy said he had met this girl and was going to be
> married. He explained that his father had died a couple of years ago and
> he was wondering if Mrs. Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in
> the place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom. Of
> course, Mrs. Thompson did. And guess what? She wore that bracelet,
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> one with several rhinestones missing. Moreover, she made sure she was
> wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their
> last Christmas together.
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> They hugged each other, and Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson's
> ear, "Thank you Mrs. Thompson for believing in me. Thank you so much for
> making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference."
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> "Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I
> could make a difference. I didn't know how to teach until I met you."
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> (For you that don't know, Teddy Stoddard is the Dr. at Iowa Methodist
> in Des Moines that has the Stoddard Cancer Wing.)
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> Warm someone's heart today. . . pass this along. I love this story so
> very much, I cry every time I read it. Just try to make a difference in
> someone's life
> today? tomorrow? just "do it".
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