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[quote=Anonymous]I’m the teacher who said write them a note or email the principal about what your child loves about their class that year. I teach high school and my kids are old enough to do this on their own. I just want to come back and say that yesterday was our last A Day (today is the real last day and it’s a B Day) and I got several notes and cards from my kids. I can not express what these mean to teachers.

You know how in parenting you’re just doing what your heart and gut tells you, hoping it’s the right thing, and that even when you mess up your kids know you love them and we’re doing your best for them? Teaching is like that too. And we might not know for a long time, if ever, if anything we did made a difference for the kids or was the right thing. When the kids take the time to say “I love you and appreciate you. Thank you for being a teacher I will never forget,” or “You taught me how to make meaningful connections with people,” or “You taught me to THINK,” (all comments I have gotten from kids in notes this year) THOSE are the things we live for and remember. To know that something we did impacted a kid is why we do this job at all. We pour so much love into them and then have to accept they will leave us and our time with them is done. But we get to keep them just this wag forever in their notes.  I will say it over and over again: please just write the note. [/quote]

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