A Bright Spot

I'm a teacher, and last year I had a rough time in one of my classes because of a group of very cliquey and difficult students. By the end of the year, I felt really defeated and frustrated that the class had been so derailed by the meanness and conniving. Yesterday, I happened to run into one student from that class in the grocery store. She greeted me with a big smile and said that even though she didn't talk much in class, she really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Even though I knew there were still a lot of problems in that class I hadn't solved very well, it made my day to know that at least this one student had gotten something out of it!