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Special teacher-student relationship spans across generations.
Byline: Mary C. Curtis
CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Carletta Freeman is the best teacher you ever had. She is the teacher you want for your children.
That's what families at Beverly Woods Elementary School believe, especially the Stowes _ mother, children and children's children. They believe each family member should experience Freeman's teaching touch.
This family and this teacher are connected by a bond that a changing Charlotte could not break _ a bond that kept Freeman in Room 118 for three extra years so she could teach another Stowe.
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Sitting with Freeman in her second-grade classroom, you get the feeling she didn't mind the delayed retirement. But that day comes on Tuesday, the last day of school. Freeman, 55, will have more time with her family, especially her ailing mother.
At Beverly Woods, through all the children she has guided in second and third grades over 34 years, Freeman will leave a legacy.
Through the Stowes, she will leave something more.
Everything about the story of Carletta Freeman and the Stowes has the not-quite-real quality of a fairy tale the teacher might use to settle restless children after lunch.
Who would believe a teacher finding a happy home at her first assignment, and then teaching six members of a family across two generations?
Who could imagine the smiles and tears that greet her long goodbye?
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Brenda Stowe has lived in her home around the corner from Beverly Woods in southeast Charlotte since Freeman's start as a teacher.
Stowe was a…
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