[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 6984-6985]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF GAYLE RHOADES, SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL 
                          TEACHER OF THE YEAR

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                           HON. HENRY CUELLAR

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 19, 2005

  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize the countless 
contributions of Gayle Rhoades, San Marcos High School Teacher of the 
Year.
  Gayle Rhoades has a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State 
University. She has been teaching Academic Biology and Pre-AP Biology 
at San Marcos High School for the past four years. She combines tough 
discipline and dedication to helping individual students into an 
effective teaching strategy.
  Ms. Rhoades has recently proved herself in one of her school's 
toughest assignments, as a teacher in the PASS program. PASS is a 
program for second and third year freshman repeaters. Many of the 
students in the program have persistent attendance and discipline 
problems, and are resistant to authority

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and advice. Ms. Rhoades has dealt with these students with firmness and 
patience, and her efforts have paid off. Many of her students credit 
her with putting them on a path to graduation and success in the face 
of considerable odds.
  Ms. Gayle Rhoades has been a tremendous role model and source of 
support for her students, and an excellent resource for her school 
system and community. She has taken up challenging assignments without 
complaint, and changed numerous lives for the better. She represents 
the best of our public education system, and I am proud to have the 
opportunity to recognize her here.

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