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Journal Prompt #20

“A teacher never sees failure in their students; they only see what they have taught them.”  Discuss a teacher who taught you to succeed or fail.  How did that teacher impact your educational life.

This prompt immediately brought to mind my high school Latin teacher, Miss Rita Hunt.  Miss Hunt taught me to succeed in Latin.  She was the teacher’s “ideal”, a standard of  excellence some teachers aspire to but rarely achieve.  (Although, since meeting the teachers associated with the Coalfield Writers Summer Institute, I have expanded my list of “ideal” teachers to include them.)  Miss Hunt inspired me to want to be the best Latin student in her class, and ultimately, I became just that.  After taking Latin I and Latin II my freshman and sophomore years, respectively, Miss Hunt persuaded the school administrators to allow her to create Latin III and Latin IV for me to take my junior and senior years.  I am the only student in the history of Belfry High School to take four years of Latin, and, I owe that honor and distinction to Miss Rita Hunt.