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[quote=Anonymous][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]

There is your answer: she was a first year teacher. Everything is weird when you are a first year teacher. My guess is that she came in and made a remark to veteran teachers that she was surprised by your note. Then the busybody PTA mom sauced up the story when she served it to you and you gobbled the whole tale down. Worse, you let it color your interactions with subsequent teachers. Really, PP, really. [/quote]

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