After trying to summarize the heartwarming tale of a little lad finally being helped by his teacher Mrs. Thompson when he was declining in school (about 4th grade), I erased my post by mistake. I wanted to mention many others chimed in with their tales of heroism about teachers and likely other adults (or even kids) who inspired them.
One woman shared that from long ago, Mike Warren died as a volunteer firefighter in an explosion. He was her high school teacher of a class of snobby kids. Well, those were the days and hopefully more students can take it easy on the teachers and vice versa.