Past Student E-mail

This is a post regarding an email I just received today.  I often wonder if I push students too much (yes they complain and say nobody else makes them do this much work -Except Mr. Swett).  Student will tell me that they sign up for classes that they don't have to do as much work in.  So therefore my classes have lower number and because I am an elective it puts my job in jeopardy.

I feel this email reinforces I am doing the right thing.  But how to get more students to realize it?  Any advice?

Hello Mrs. Grassel,

I’m not sure if you remember me from several years ago…but I took accounting my Senior year. I just wanted to share with you something really cool. I’m a 2 degree (junior) at the Air Force Academy right now, and I just started my majors classes this semester. I am a business management major, and one of our first required courses is financial management. Out of a class of about 20+ students, I’m the only one who has had any prior accounting classes. The coolest part…even after almost 4 years I still remember almost everything you taught…Our college course looks like it’s going to be exactly what we did in high school, just with a “college text”. Thank you so much for teaching passionately and well! 

Hope everything at school and home is going great,

Ben Fischl 

Makes me proud to be a teacher! :)