Mrs. Pruitt, 12th grade English Lit. Everyone else thought she was too hard, mean, strict, etc. She was the first fair English teacher I had in high school. The rich kids didn't get to skate through her class. She was interesting and if you did the work you would learn and get a good grade. On my first paper of the year, an essay on our summer reading, Wuthering Heights, she wrote in huge red ink, with an exclamation mark, that I was a great writer. That compliment changed my life.