Remain hopeful about the future
By Daralyn Schoenewald
Sunday, February 1, 2009
ReporterNews.com, TX
…At Madison, the shrill sound of a bell announcing the coming and going of a new period of class punctuates his day.
Students pop in and out of his office, some with questions, others just to say hi. He said his closet is packed with children in the minutes before class starts for the day.
Metters has founded a chess club at the school as another way to reach at-risk students.
The chess club, Metters said, has been extraordinarily successful.
“Chess is big on campus,” he said, gesturing toward a filing cabinet piled with several game boxes. “I tell my students it’s a game of life … that you’ve got to think three steps ahead.”
A proud moment in Metters’ life is when previous students, now at Abilene High or Cooper High, come to visit him and thank him for the difference he helped make in their lives.
“I’m humbled,” he said. “You don’t know who you have touched until those people come back into your life.”
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Kudos to Mr. Metters.