American Women's Club of Hamburg Currents Magazine January 2014 | Page 10

FEATURE same teacher throughout elementary school – so the first four years. I am really glad that she was mine. The second example is a teacher I never actually had as a teacher but who taught physics and math at my school. Though I enjoyed math, physics was never really my thing :-). But what impressed me about him was his devotion to mentoring the group of students that each year would choose him as their “tutor” - a teacher that would help students with any issues in 12th and 13th grades. Usually, these teachers would also have lunch with their groups or maybe invite them to their homes for coffee and cake. But once the students graduated, the relationship would end. This teacher, however, took a continuing interest in “his kids” - inviting them to spend a weekend with him and his wife at their summer cottage n