Mr. Laws loved all of his students even though he was teaching in a class where the students, like me, struggled with math. He was able to work with any student even if they had trouble learning. He was willing to teach anyone as long as the student showed effort; he even worked really hard with the kids who weren’t so good in math. He didn’t care who you were or if you had a learning disability or if you sometimes misbehaved. He thought of every student equally and he worked really hard to make everyone have success in his class. I generally got good grades in his class, but that was because he helped me and always encouraged me. He would build my confidence and keep telling me that I could do the work even when I wasn’t so sure that I could do it. I look back now and I think to myself that I was lucky to have a teacher who would allow me and other people to just focus on doing our best. Mr. Laws would give us a lot of tries to get the answers right and to pass the tests that he gave. He always made me feel smart and he always told me that I would achieve my goals if I just worked hard enough. He was right.