The best teacher of an underprivileged topic in my school retired and we never had a suitable replacement since she left

I live in a relatively affluent school in a not so affluent area so the underprivileged kids are mostly in the bottom layers of the social hierarchy in our school, and our current social hierarchy kinda follows these rankings: <br><br>-AP/honors students with a background in the subject <br><br>-AP/honors students without a background but want to learn<br><br>-Regular students with a strong background in the subject<br><br>-Regular students who are OK with the subject<br><br>-Underprivileged students <br><br>So imagine how lost and out of place the underprivileged students were in our school. <br><br>To give you a bit of background, the best teacher of an underprivileged topic in our school taught AP and regular world history. It was supposed to be a hard class, but the teacher saw the underprivileged students as being vulnerable and took really good care of them. I remember her being very willing to help the underprivileged kids catch up on schoolwork as they had a lot of responsibilities in their lives and couldn't keep up with the work. She was really dedicated to her job and her kids, always offered extra help to those who needed it, allowed her underprivileged kids to eat lunch in the classroom, and even made sure to include activities and teaching methods that were different from the norm so everyone in her class could learn. I took her AP class and noticed that she was always talking to her underprivileged kids about how to deal with their situations, and how to improve their situation. Her door was always open to us and she was always willing to listen to anyone's problems and help out. <br><br>The best part was that she never saw any of her kids as being any less than her, and she always treated us as equals. She never offered us pity, but she offered us love and care as a teacher. She never acted like a superior being and always tried to see where her students were coming from, and she saw the world from everyone's point of view. She never offered us pity; she offered us love and respect, and saw everyone as her equal. She never made the underprivileged kids feel any less than us and she was really good at creating a healthy classroom environment. For example, she made sure we always had a good snack to eat for breakfast, offered extra credit for any of her underprivileged kids who didn't have enough money to buy something for snack, and allowed everyone to eat and hang out in the classroom even if we weren't in her class. In a way, she felt like a mom for all the underprivileged kids in our school. She even let some of them come to her classroom to sleep if they didn't have anywhere to go during lunch. <br><br>But the best part about her was that she saw potential in all her students and encouraged us to see it in ourselves. She never made anyone feel any less, and she often reminded her underprivileged students that they were capable of achieving great things. She saw potential in everyone and never saw us as being any less than her. She saw us as equals and she taught us to see the world from multiple perspectives. <br><br>She was really selfless and saw teaching as a way to make a difference in her students' lives. She really cared about us and always tried to see where we were coming from. Even though her class was an AP class, she never tried to force us to take the AP exam and was actually okay with people not taking the AP exam at all. She was pretty chill and made sure that we were happy and healthy more than anything else. She offered a lot of mental health days and encouraged us to not push ourselves too hard. She was also really passionate about teaching and sharing her knowledge, and she was really good at explaining things in a simple way and making them more interesting. For example, she would ask us historical "what if" questions and have us come up with hypothetical scenarios, or have us come up with ideas for a historical theme park. She encouraged us to not just memorize dates and facts, but to think about how historical events affected people in the past and what their experiences were like, and to be empathetic towards them. She encouraged us to question everything and not just blindly follow the norms, and to fight for what we believe in. She saw her students as her future and really wanted to groom us to be our best selves. She was really good at making us feel like we were her future and the future of the world, and she encouraged us to be our best and make a positive difference. <br><br>She eventually retired due to health reasons and our school hasn't been able to find anyone like her. Now there's just a huge void in our school where she's missing. <br><br>I just wanted to post this and get it off my chest. Does anyone else have similar experiences about a similar teacher in their school?