Many thanks owed to ‘one of the best’

Submitted, letter to the editor
Published: June 2, 2008

Glenn Anderson was my sixth-grade math teacher. I have never been good at math, and I was having more difficulty than usual that year in pre-algebra. Mr. Anderson often helped me understand concepts that I wasn’t quite getting. I don’t just mean a few minutes after class. I mean that he would open up his classroom a full hour earlier than others in the morning to help students study, or do their homework or come to him with questions.
I left the school the next year and, thanks to Mr. Anderson’s help, passed my seventh-grade math class with flying colors.
I, and many others, owe many thanks to Mr. Anderson for helping us along and supporting us, even when it seemed like we absolutely couldn’t get the next concept. He once said to my father, “It seems like she isn’t getting it, she isn’t getting it, she isn’t getting it and then she gets it.”
Thank you for seeing me through all the she-isn’t-getting-its.
He was one of the best teachers I have ever had or seen, and I know he will be missed by many.
Jane Jongeward
Waynesboro