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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed May 30, 2018, 06:17 PM May 2018

Woman honors 6th-grade teacher's wish to attend her Harvard graduation, as written on 1997 report ca

Gilmer told ABC News that she kept that report card from Ms. Toensing -- her beloved educator from her years at O.C. Johnson Elementary School in Yuma, Arizona.
In April, Gilmer announced on Facebook that she'd be graduating with a doctorate in public health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In it, she tagged the teachers who inspired her.

Gilmer said that Harvard soon reached out to Toensing and invited her to the graduation, all expenses paid.

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Woman honors 6th-grade teacher's wish to attend her Harvard graduation, as written on 1997 report ca (Original Post) ashling May 2018 OP

Good for her. My best teachers were 4th and 6th grade. Public school. dameatball May 2018 #1

Mine was my sixth grade teacher. Sophia4 May 2018 #2

dameatball

(7,395 posts)

1. Good for her. My best teachers were 4th and 6th grade. Public school.

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Wed May 30, 2018, 06:18 PM

May 2018

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)

2. Mine was my sixth grade teacher.

Reply to dameatball (Reply #1)

Wed May 30, 2018, 07:06 PM

May 2018

But I was the age most children are in fourth and/or fifth grade because I read earlier due to being extremely nearsighted.

My sixth grade teacher had a model of the Parthenon. I was so excited about it and about democracy that I promised myself I would visit the real Parthenon one day.

I did. 1965. It was as wonderful as I expected. I have no idea what it is like now.

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