Mr Knight from grade 6. My first ever male teacher and had just changed schools from the "good" school to the "poor" school.

It was the first time I was told I was smart. I never knew before, the other teachers had their favourites, being from one of the two single parent families in the school meant I could never be favored. I never knew that 99% in a maths test was brilliant, I was always made to feel like it was not good enough that I was never good enough.

Mr Knight changed that. I finally saw what I could do. He encouraged me, he taught me to play cheese in the lunch break. We would have races in the maths test. He would do the test at the same time as us and we tried to see which one of us could finish before him.

Oh and he had an awesome beard.

Rumour has it that the principal left her husband for him