I may decide to cross-post this in my WC journal when those boards come back up on Friday, but I had the urge so I figured I'd dust off my one-post LJ
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Hmmm...I'm sort of liking that I can reply to each person individually right under their comment! Perhaps I like LJ after all! Yeah, after all my bitching about them this year, the book was really touching. The funny part was that most of them only paid attention to the gift opening for about 30 seconds because the make-your-own-sundaes were revealed.
Ok, how dare they take down the WC when we've got stories like this to tell? What are they thinking?
That is really incredibly sweet of your students. And generous--gosh, I think I used to see teachers getting a lot of "apple" sweatshirts or those ABC applique ones and maybe some lotion at the end of the year. Most touching though is what your students wrote.
I am also amused by a) the fact your students call you Ms. P. That's very progressive. My entire childhood in TX there were "Miss A" and "Mrs. C" I have since realized that some of those "Miss A"s cannot have been too far along in their twenties. b) very amused your students can't picture you as principal. I bet you don't seem scary or serious enough (yet! mwahaha!).
I feel very lucky that my students and their families were so generous! I do teach in a very upper-income area of LA now, and some of the gifts I receive border on the ridiculous. This was a big gift--at the end of the year, the room parents for each class usually take money that they collected from each family and put it towards a big present for the teacher. It's really pretty fantastic. This year there was an article in the New Yorker around Christmas time about the extravagance of teacher gifts in this particular area of LA...the author was claiming that extravagant gifts for teachers was actually lowering the professional quotient of teachers to that of a service worker like a waitress because it was essentially a "tip" for good service. I happen to disagree, because I think lots of people give gifts to their doctors for a job well done or "just because," and I don't think that lowers the professionalsm of doctors! Anyway, off my soapbox. I was really just saying that I don't mind getting nice gifts from my students. And
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I am exhausted but really looking forward til tomorrow when I can finally take a breath...somehow I've been staying up really late this week so I'm staying in tonight to try and slow it down a little.
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That is really incredibly sweet of your students. And generous--gosh, I think I used to see teachers getting a lot of "apple" sweatshirts or those ABC applique ones and maybe some lotion at the end of the year. Most touching though is what your students wrote.
I am also amused by a) the fact your students call you Ms. P. That's very progressive. My entire childhood in TX there were "Miss A" and "Mrs. C" I have since realized that some of those "Miss A"s cannot have been too far along in their twenties. b) very amused your students can't picture you as principal. I bet you don't seem scary or serious enough (yet! mwahaha!).
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congrats on finishing the school year!
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