When I asked my assembled family members at our Thanksgiving dinner table what they were thankful for, my son led off with an enthusiastic and heartfelt explanation of why he was thankful that he had Ms. Ryan for his 6th grade math class. He told us that she was a great math teacher, that although she gave a lot of homework, it was good homework, that she pushed him to do well and that she makes math fun.
What more could you want: a child who still loves going to school, and who leads off his list of things he is thankful for with a dedication to his math teacher. I am thankful for Ms. Ryan for keeping him interested and for challenging him and for making learning something that he describes as fun.Go Ms. Ryan: you rock!
-Jane Bedell
Mother of Derek Garrison-Bedell