Grateful kids? They're teachers' favorite gifts
Sunday, December 26th 2010, 4:00 AM
ANY KID lucky enough to have money can shop in a store for a Christmas gift for a favorite teacher.
The kids at Public School 119 in Brooklyn went shopping in their hearts and came up with a gift any teacher was sure to cherish above all others.
The gift was appreciation, which is often accorded to firefighters and cops but too seldom to teachers. It was expressed to each student's favorite teacher in the form of a letter with the best spelling, grammar and penmanship the writer could summon.
Fourth-grader Kendall Hunte decided to write his letter to Iris Ofsie, the teacher he had in first grade, before he transferred from Public School 272. That was a third of his life ago, and initially he had some difficulty describing the enormous impact she had on him.
"It came out kind of tough at first," the 9-year-old told me.
He kept at it, just as Ofsie and any other
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