Thank you Mrs. Davis

Mrs. Davis, As Jack pointed out, rather than focus on the negative I would like to focus more on the positivity you encouraged through your teaching. I know I speak for most of us when I say that you were quite the teacher not just in what school material you taught but in the life lessons you taught. You embody the famous quote by Mark Twain that says “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. You always enjoyed every minute you spent in the classroom and it’s because you never went into the classroom to work. You would walk in every day to mold each and every student you had, and to take your time in making sure each student had what they needed to succeed and because of that, I will be forever grateful. One of my favorite memories was the time you randomly called my house to ask me what I thought about the exams you gave us. You asked me if the questions were challenging enough to make us think beyond but not hard enough that they were still fair and in line with what you were teaching us. That being said no memory comes close to the Frankenstein parody movie you allowed me to make with some of my classmates. That Oscar-winning masterpiece, as you liked to call it, took a full weekend and countless hours between Matt Spasic, Alex Hill, Pablo Portes, Carlos Vaca, and I to truly portray everything from the novel with our own little twist. Let me tell you that all that work was worth it because seeing how you would show it to every class since then is something I can never get over. You were our biggest fan and I will always be appreciative of that. There will never be enough words to truly describe how much you did for me and how each time we interacted I was always challenged to think and become a better person. Thank you Mrs. Davis for how you inspired each and every one of us in some form. We all truly love you and never question that. – Sebastian Sabbagh, Riviera Class of 2016