In US, by MS and HS, students/parents stop giving gifts to teachers. We are immigrants and we give gifts to all subject teachers through MS and HS. Until kids graduate.

We normally give generous amounts ($100 - $200) of amazon gift cards to all the teachers during Thanksgiving in a thank you card. We do not give during Christmas or end of year. We find Thanksgiving the best and most logical time to give "Thanks" to the teachers.

My kids have been taught to personally give the gifts to the teachers, instead of putting it in their mail cubby because then it gets stolen. It takes a full week for my kids to give the gifts to the teachers because they want to give it without an audience. Most teachers send a thank-you card because of three reasons - my kids have given it to them personally, the amounts have been significant, and it was handed to them before thanksgiving and no one else is giving them gifts, so there is no confusion about who gave them what.

Anonymous wrote:What would I be thanking the students for? Thank you for being a pain in my @ss? Thank you for interrupting every lesson? Thank you for actually getting a passing grade?

I really hope my kids never have you as a teacher.

Anonymous wrote:What would I be thanking the students for? Thank you for being a pain in my @ss? Thank you for interrupting every lesson? Thank you for actually getting a passing grade?

I really hope my kids never have you as a teacher.

We give gifts to several teachers every year and only 1-2 ever send a thank you note. I think it's nice but totally unnecessary and never something I'd expect. I really don't think my kid cares one way or another.

Anonymous wrote:Please do, it would mean the world to those kids to have a thank you. Either by email or actual mail.

Do the kids care? Aren't parents the ones picking out these gifts? My kids never picked them out and I also didn't care if I got a thank you, especially a written note. Last week of semester is always crazy.

Anonymous wrote:Please do, it would mean the world to those kids to have a thank you. Either by email or actual mail.

What's wrong with in person, at the time?

Billy gives his teacher a plant. Teacher says "Thank you, Billy."

HS teachers don’t get many gifts. I send thank you emails or give thank you cards for holiday gifts, if there are any. If there are any end of year gifts and again, it’s rare in HS, they are usually accompanied by a thank you card. No, I don’t send a thank you for a thank you.

Agree with PPs, and I am not a teacher. Do not give a teacher an EOY (or any) gift with the expectation of a written thank you note. A verbal thank you is plenty. Anything more than that is just giving work to a teacher in exchange for something they didn't ask for.

Anonymous wrote:Please do, it would mean the world to those kids to have a thank you. Either by email or actual mail.

lol

Anonymous wrote:What would I be thanking the students for? Thank you for being a pain in my @ss? Thank you for interrupting every lesson? Thank you for actually getting a passing grade?

+1000

I spent many hours into the nights all year carefully reading and writing thoughtful feedback on countless practice timed essays in preparation for the AP exam (even for the kids who didn't try, saw the class as a joke, were super disrespectful to me all year, or had mothers who attacked and slandered me for trying to push their lazy kid hard enough that s/he would actually pass the exam).

I say thank you in person. I will not be spending more time writing emails to say thank you again.

My AP scores are the strongest in my department again. I did enough for your kid.

What would I be thanking the students for? Thank you for being a pain in my @ss? Thank you for interrupting every lesson? Thank you for actually getting a passing grade?

Is telling them in person not enough? When they give a gift on the last day of school?

Or do you want the teachers to spend the first day of summer vacation writing thank-you notes?

I think if you want a Thank You, you should aim to give the gift before the last week of school.

Anonymous wrote:Please do, it would mean the world to those kids to have a thank you. Either by email or actual mail.

I try to but it doesn’t always happen in the chaos of the end of the year.

Please do, it would mean the world to those kids to have a thank you. Either by email or actual mail.