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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are new to private school (public school converts), and both our kids will be starting at a new school in Sept.

For our kids previous teachers I would usually bring a small gift to meet the teacher and then do holiday and end of year gifts (usually a gift card along with something small and a note of thanks). Im not a Pinterest mom and am not saying that these gifts were anything beautiful, but I like being able to appreciate our teachers.

Is this similar in private school? Any suggestions?

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Which grade?  This varies by grade and by school - but grade would help here.

We gave gifts to all teachers at the holidays and at end of year for k-8 and dc's wrote notes to teachers.  In HS did nothing - we were told it wasn't allowed at the school. It's also hard to get a HS kid to write notes (and especially at their school, where teachers tended to be at arms length and less likely to build relationships). They did write TY emails in situations where a teacher wrote a recommendation (these aren't just college - recommendations were needed a few other times too).

Note - if you are coming from a public where most of the time is spent in homeroom, giving gifts to teachers in private for younger grades can sometimes add up to many teachers depending on how the school works. The students often have many specials teachers that they see several times a week (science, music, art, spanish, pe) and sometimes they have co-teachers in homeroom and a math/reading specialist to augment the homeroom teacher(s) for those subject times.  Of course, middle school will have all these subject teachers as well...as will high school.[/quote]

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