proving them wrong!
this week we talk to two people whose lives would have been very different if they had listened to what their teacher said about them!
twenty-eight-year-old Elaine Stafford is a very successful journalist. In elementary school Elaine loved English and always got excellent grades on her compositions. Everything changed when she was in the seventh grade and her English teacher retired. From the ages of 13 to 16,her new English teacher told her that her compositions shouldn't be so imaginative.
"Just before my 16th birthday, I realized that if i started writing boring compositions, I might get better grades. So, that's what i did ... and i started getting excellent grades and comments like: 'this is much better!'