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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who planned this? Every damn year, the week leading up to Mother’s Day is Teacher A-Freaking-ppreciation Week. I appreciate teachers and do more than my part to celebrate them multiple times a year—gift cards and buying from Amazon wish lists multiple times a year, contributing to numerous PTA lunches and coffee carts, volunteering as a chaperone and helping with class parties, on and on. I do gift cards, notes, and a SignUpGenius contribution for the Teacher Appreciation Week stuff.

But why must we run mother’s ragged during this specific time? It’s like squeeze all the juice out of the lemon before celebrating moms on one DAY after they’ve spent a week doing things for teachers. It’s a lot, on top of a full-time job and all the other things we do as moms.[/quote]

You know you don't have to do all (or any) of it, right?[/quote]

And then we’ll be treated to more “Teachers are soooooo unapprecccciiiiattteeddd” threads here on DCUM.[/quote]

Teacher here, and ouch.

You don’t have to do a thing to show appreciation. I don’t need coffee, mugs, cards, etc. You know what I would like? An ounce of respect. That’s all. I’m a professional, so treat me like one. From you, that might look like passing on the next opportunity to disrespect teachers. [/quote]

Yes! I can't for the life of me understand the mentality of some people around here. It's like they go through the motions of "appreciation" with ridiculous food gifts, etc, and then turn around and gossip meanly about their kids' teachers just because they've done their gratitude thing and it doesn't carry over to actually important things like RESPECT. Exactly like what they do for Mother's Day: do something for their MILs or mothers that day, then spend the entire rest of the year complaining about them :-)

Sigh. We humans are such flawed creatures.

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