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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Write a really nice card. The more specific, the better. I keep these in my desk as mood boosters on the toughest days. [/quote]

This! I love getting cards! Honestly, that means more to me than a gift certificate.

I also read them on rough days. Old cards have actually kept me from quitting. I had a really rough week last year, hitting rock bottom. It was a stack of old cards that helped me clearly see reasons I should stay. [b]Teachers don’t get a ton of kind words.[/b]

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So the handwritten notes at the beginning of the school year, the holidays, and Teacher Appreciation Week that I write along with a gift card are not enough for you? Good to freaking know.[/quote]
I once wrote a wonderfully handwritten sentiment to one of my children’s teachers. I heard through the grapevine from a busybody PTA mom of a friend of my child’s that the teacher was creeped out by the note and went off about it in the teachers lounge in front of the PTA mom. I was so embarrassed I’ve never written a note like that again. [/quote]

Sounds fishy. In 20 years of teaching, I’ve never seen a PTA mom or any parent in a teacher’s lounge other than setting up/serving/cleaning up all-staff events like a teacher appreciation brunch. But maybe you indeed wrote a really weird note? [/quote]
She was there for the last-day luncheon put on by the PTA ;) My note only thanked her for being a wonderful first teacher and introduction to school, and helping my child acclimate to school so easily (it was kindergarten, which made it more awkward; I had to see her for years at school pickups!) and how my child was already sad and tearful about leaving her class. Nothing weird. [/quote]

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