Thanks a million (or three)

To paraphrase Cindy, I would like to “show her the data” regarding her substantial influence on the field of special education. What follows is a very conservative estimate of her impact…

• *She has worked as a professor at Millersville for over 20 years.


• *For the majority of those years, she taught 8 courses (20 x 8= 160 courses)


• *Most of those courses had around 25 students in them (160 x 25= 4000 pre-service teachers taught)


• *Each of those pre-service teachers would eventually have a classroom of their own serving approximately 25 children per year. (4000 x 25 = 100,000 students served per year)


• * An average public school teacher works for 30 years in the classroom. (100,000 x 30 years= 3 million students positively impacted by Cindy! )

I was tempted to tell Cindy thanks a million for all that she does, but then realized that that would be a significant underestimate of her accomplishments.