Read the thank-you note from a student that gave a West Mesquite High School teacher goosebumps
A few days ago a friend forwarded the missive you see here, a note sent from a student to a West Mesquite High School teacher named Jennifer Davis. He was passing it along, said this friend, because he thought it was “pretty cool,” a touching thank-you that became its own little gift at this most wonderful time of the year.Davis has given us permission to share it with the OK of her Algebra I student, 16-year-old Shayla Godbey. Says Davis, what made this missive most unexpected was its author: “Like she says,” Davis offers, “she’s not my most talkative of students.”
Davis, who grew up in Mesquite and attended North Mesquite High School, has been teaching locally for four years; before that she spent a year in Korea teaching English. She says she’s never received a