Forever a Mustang: Ms. Buford, You Will Be Missed

Shelly Kuang
September 2, 2010
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Over yonder where the horizons smile sunny rays over MTHS lays one of the daintiest classrooms ever seen. Decorated with students’ heart-felt memoirs, inspirational quotes and uncontainable love, the room harnesses the powers of knowledge and cultivates it into a language that teems with energy.

This classroom is none than Ms. Buford’s Floating Block/English class. However, it does leave one with a solemn aftertaste upon hearing that Ms. Buford will be leaving the school. On the 2^nd of September, Ms. Buford travels across the country to Hunstville, Alabama to be with her family, her children and grandchildren as well as her husband, who had recently been relocated to Hunstville because of his job. After she settles down, she plans on “going back to the classroom”.

Although a teaching profession was not her original career goal (she wanted to become a doctor), she later became an English teacher out of the love she had for English and memories of herself playing “school” as a child.

Ms. Buford will certainly be missed, as an important staff member, as a teacher, and as “one of the teachers I can talk to [because] she’s someone I can trust”,  laments Cassie Teal, one of Ms. Buford’s former students.

Although Ms. Buford will be nearly a country away, her triumphs and teachings will forever remain a part of MTHS. She wants all of us to “never give up, follow your goals” and to tightly pocket but freely use her 3Es: Effort, Endurance and Excellence. But she too, will be taking with her, “the love I have from all the kids, the lessons I’ve learned from them about cultural diversity and the deep relations I’ve formed with the excellent staff here at Monterey Trail”.

Thank you for everything you’re done, Ms. Buford, for being there for us and truly caring about us. We wish you the best of luck.

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