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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh I should add as well. Some of the best teaching I do as a parent is when we travel. Language, geography, history are all supported by raising kids who are aware of being in a wider world. I don’t ask teachers to thank me for that when I return either. [/quote]

Why would they thank us for parenting? Everything you listed is what we [i]should[/i] do as parents. Teachers dont need to thank us for parenting by teaching our kids when we travel any more than they need to thank us for toilet-training our children, supplying toothbrushes to our children, or clothing our children. It is our JOB as parents.[/quote]

Agreed— and providing work to a child who has been absent is their JOB as teachers. No special thanks needed.[/quote]

[b]Well, there’s absences and there’s absences. Sick? Definitely my job to provide work. Vacation? No, not really… but I’ll do it anyway. 
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And there’s “providing work” and there’s teaching. If you want me to say, “check online! It’s there,” then I provided work. If you want me to stay after to teach the lesson to your child because he was on vacation, then that’s additional teaching.

So you can withhold your thanks in a “I’m going to stick it to that teacher” kind of way. That’s fine. Meanwhile, my daughter was sick earlier this week. I sent an email to her teacher, she responded with support, and I thanked her for it. It took me about 3 seconds.

We are different people. [/quote]

If the vacation is excused, yes, your job. I don’t see how that impact your quality of life so much that you keep fixating on it. It’s very easy to get an excused absence if that’s really going to make you much happier. [/quote]
How do you get the vacation excused?[/quote]

A PP a few pages back said she would get a doctor's excuse for mental health or something like that.[/quote]
So lie or get someone to lie for you? And teachers are then obligated to help catch your kid up (but not be thanked for it).[/quote]

None of the examples given were lies. Mental health is excused in fcps, college visits are excused, and kids are under the care of their pediatricians. Saying “my kid has flu” is a lie.

Again its never been needed because I don’t have this kind of power hungry teacher in my kids orbit (elementary school so maybe that’s why) but I wouldn’t let their problems become my problems.[/quote]

DP. Love that simply suggesting a thank you for additional work is considered “power hungry”![/quote]

“Power hungry” was the people saying its not their job/they won’t provide makeup work so students shouldn’t travel or they should
be penalized (but teachers can).

Though, trying to be the hall monitor of what teachers deserve thanks for— as though some random internet stranger knows more about a kids teachers performance than the students parent does— has a certain red flag quality.[/quote]

Except that’s not what most of the teachers on this thread have been saying, including me. We’ve said we are happy to provide work regardless of reason (sickness, vacation).

If you trace this back, one poster (me) said that it would be nice to hear a quick “thank you” if you asked me for extra assistance in the form of individualized units or extra after-school help. (A real example? A request for an entire unit to be packaged up with daily targets and check-ins that align with the family’s vacation plans.) I never said I needed a “thank you” for anything within the context of my job, like throwing worksheets your kid’s way.

I was mocked and insulted by multiple posters for that suggestion. I learned that it’s my job to bend over backwards, and that if I don’t do it gleefully and gratefully that the family will lie about their destination to force me to do it.

So there we are. I’m the villain. [/quote]

Times have changed.
I taught Title I many years ago.  I still have some of the thank you notes--actually somewhat illiterate--from moms.  Gratitude expressed goes a long way.[/quote]

So the full week of teacher appreciation every year, requests for brand specific items for your classroom, holiday gifts and end of year gifts are insufficient thanks? Isn’t this getting a hit much in demands?[/quote]

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