"He just went above and
beyond... He's such a good teacher and a great man," Josh Anderson says of
his daughter Rylee's teacher Chris Waba.
Despite the fact, that we
are all living a tough period of social-distancing because of the current
pandemic, there are a lot of heart-warming stories that will brighten up your
day.
This story happened in
South Dakota last week when a sixth-grade math teacher showed how much he cares
about his students’ success by going the extra mile to explain a lesson
in-person amid covid-19, yet, the study session between the two wasn’t the most
ordinary.
Dakota State's head
football coach, Josh Anderson, shared a
touching photo of his 6th-grade daughter Rylee Anderson on Twitter
getting help from her math teacher, Chris Waba. The Madison Middle
School teacher says he didn’t think twice about going to his student’s house
after he received several emails from the 12-year-old, asking for help to
explain the latest algebra lesson on graphing.
The student father said in
his post on Friday that the teacher "came over & worked through the
problem with her on our front porch."
As you can see in the
snapshot taken by Anderson, the 12 year old is holding up a notebook, while her
teacher drew math equations on a whiteboard outside.
In interview with PEOPLE Magazine,
Waba, who lives across the street from Rylee reported that “You do what you can
to help those kids through,” “You can tell when kids are struggling and the last
thing you want someone to do when it’s something new like this — and it’s new
for all of us — is to become frustrated and then give up.”
“I really felt that we were almost
at that point where Rylee was just about ready to say, ‘You know what, I’m done
with this,’ and I didn’t want her to give up,” he adds. “She wasn’t very far
away and the opportunity was there and it just worked out.”
Prior to Rylee reaching out, her
father Josh Anderson says the math assignment had been challenging her. “She’s
a really good student and didn’t like the fact she couldn’t get it figured out
on her own,” Josh recalls of his daughter. “She was in tears and so mad and
frustrated because she couldn’t figure it out.”
It’s true that not all
heroes wear capes …
A.F.RA
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