To email the teacher

Yes! I’m a secondary school teacher and have a folder where I keep emails from parents and students. I cherish these. I’ve also had a couple sent to the Head and it’s a nice acknowledgment.

Can you imagine if every parent sent an email? His/Her inbox would be full!

And how wonderful would that be? I'm sure every teacher would be so happy to know that all the parents thought they were doing a great job. Even if it means a full email inbox!

I'm a cub leader, we get the (very) occasional gift at Christmas - this year it was one small box of chocolates from one child, out of a group of 30 kids. But we also got a card written by one of the children who is moving on, thanking us, as saying how much they've loved their time at cubs. That card means the world to us.

I write an email at the end of the school year to teachers who have been particularly supportive of my DD thanking them. I cc in the headteacher too. She's struggled at secondary and a few teachers have been above and beyond over the years to support her so I always like to acknowledge it. It's her final year and her head of year has been exceptional so was planning to have a bunch of flowers delivered too after GCSEs

Absolutely. When my DD finished at tech college to go to Uni I wrote a similar email to the course director thanking them for all the support, care, and unending patience they had shown her (AUDHD, 2x drop out of 6th form so she was challenging). On the ‘celebration’ day, every one of the teachers who’d worked with her came pup to me to thank me for the email, as the director had clearly shared it. It had apparently made their day to be acknowledged.

They are amazing - wish I could have said or done more.

Oh you old grump

An in box of positivity. How fabulous would that be at the end of term. Bring it on.

I can’t see any teacher thinking this! An email, preferably copied to the Headteacher, is always well received. Especially at the end of a long term.

Please do it.

Whenever we get anything like that we share it with our boss and it is included in our records.

Do it. I loved the ones I've had, they are few and far between.

Be specific if you can, not just a generic "theyre great", and copy in their line manager if you know who it is. I once got pulled aside by a deputy head at briefing. I wondered why and he showed me an email he'd had about me, detailing exactly how wonderful the parent thought I was for going above and beyond for both of their children. They gave really specific details and the deputy head said he hadnt known how much support I was giving them and thanked me. I smiled at all my classes for the rest of the day. And the next day my head of department told me the deputy head had showed him the email too. Honestly the best Christmas gift any parent from school has ever given me.

And yes, the deputy head forwarded it to me and I have it printed out in my top drawer and when I know im about to have a horrific Y11 parents evening with certain parents trying to blame me for anything and everything (sadly there are always a couple) then it look at it and remeber that there will be others that really appreciate the time and effort I put into their child and that they really notice the extra effort and its worth it.

My DD is a secondary teacher and she has shared appreciative notes and emails from parents - and 6th form leavers - with me ( just the text, no identifiers ) . She was very touched indeed that someone would take the time to do that.

What sort of ‘bribery’ does the unpleasant and cynical poster who suggested that have in mind ?

Definitely do it! I still have some print outs of similar emails from 20+ years ago!

Sorry, but you are wrong here, school staff receive so many negative emails from parents that most people delight in forwarding on a nice one to their colleagues (I work in a school).

Honestly, why the cynicism? Everybody, no matter what their profession/role in life is appreciative of a note telling them that they are doing a good job. I work in a school myself and this sort of note is appreciated more than you can know. So many parents send nasty, snide,demanding emails and it’s lovely to get a nice one. I work in a big shared office and when we get a nice email from a parent, we read them out as they mean so much! They are never received with cynicism.

Do it, make sure you put thank you in the subject line and cc the head teacher

do it, because it's lovely - & then take this down before the joyless "sucking up" accusers become an unstoppable skeleton army of negativity & rob you of your will to live 🤣🤣

Jesus. How do you work that one out?

How mean-spirited.

Ignore @Princesspollyyy.

And what a lovely full inbox it would be to work their way through!

Emails like this are genuinely appreciated and not at all seen as sucking up.

Please send
I'm a teacher and I've had a couple of those kind of emails in the last ten years
Makes up for all the rubbish ones I get ....ie why isn't Bob in the top set with his friends or why didn't Mary get a speaking part in the Christmas service ...

I think this is a lovely idea. It’s always nice to hear about the positive impact of your efforts, makes an incredibly difficult and usually thankless job worthwhile! Definitely include the headteacher.

As a teacher I would be really touched at this. Please do it.

OP, I think it’s a lovely idea - teaching is hard work, and who doesn’t want to know that their efforts are appreciated by parents? Go for it!

Retired teacher here - do it, you’ll make their day!

🙄😆😆 As if they don’t have enough to do! There’d be an awful lot of eye rolling going on if they received a suck up attempt a matter of months before GCSEs and will be judging massively. Sorry OP but it’s got elements of bribery imo.