Reader comments
Beloved 'rare crayon' teacher packing up her Crayolas

Impressed Parent | 12:18 p.m. June 5, 2008

I love this article. My children have benenfitted from Mrs. Allen's skills. She teaches with passion and love. And, best of all, she is one of several extraorindary teachers at Bonneville Elementry School. My oldest started there over 20 years ago, and my youngest left just two years ago. Mrs. Allen and her colleagues have touched lives and strengthened the life-long learning skills of thousands of children! Bless their hearts!

Ellen in SLC | 1:32 p.m. June 5, 2008

Thanks so much for writing this story about Mrs. Allen. What I love about your column is that you share stories about ordinary people who are making a quiet difference in others' lives. Thanks for making a difference in your own way by sharing this!

Utah-Texas Transplant | 6:05 p.m. June 5, 2008

Thanks for this article. Utah needs more teachers like Mrs. Allen. We wish her the best in her retirement.

Comments continue below

Proud Teacher | 7:06 p.m. June 5, 2008

Hooray for Mrs. Allen! It's nice to see that toward the end of her career, she is full of enthusiasm. Thanks for your column -- we enjoy it and look forward to it each week.

Annie Boxell | 11:57 a.m. June 20, 2008

Sweet, Sweet Mrs. Allen! She did, like she hoped to, touch all her students' lives!

Add your comment

Comments are monitored. Any comments found to be abusive, offensive, off-topic, misrepresentative, more than 200 words or containing URLs will not be posted.

Words Remaining

E-mail address: For internal use only. We may want to contact you to publish your comment (not your e-mail address) in the newspaper or for a separate story idea.