This "assignment" was given about one month into the school year. I had been working with a student whose schedule had been switched around several times. She was very unhappy about it and was taking it out on me. She had made several comments about how much she hated my class and that she just wanted to switch back to her old class. At the end of class on this particular day I received a letter from her, not just thanking me for my kindness and patience, but also apologizing for her attitude...
Who
is someone who deserves a thank you? You deserve and apology and a
thank you. I want to say sorry for being rude. It's not that I don't
want to be in your class, I just have more friends in the other class.
Now I get that school isn't about friends. I want to say thank you for
being nice to me when I haven't even been nice to you.
The maturity that this student showed was really surprising. She easily could have let our relationship continue in a negative way but she chose instead to take responsibility for her behavior and realize how it was affecting someone else. We have had a really positive relationship since then.
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