Are you at all in touch with any of your old teachers?

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DS finished A-levels in 2019 (so a while ago now) and is still in email contact with 3/4 of his teachers that supported him from year 7-13.

At first it was emails about how university was going, now it's brief email update about his current career etc.

I’m friends on FB with one of my teachers. I’m 40 now so school was a long time ago. This particular teacher made a huge impression on me and he still follows what I’m up to, which is lovely.

I'm FB friends with my secondary school maths teacher. She was awesome, so I was very pleased to make contact with her. I left school in 1996.

At the time, I had stayed in touch with my English teacher. I remember when I passed my driving test and got my first car, one of my first trips was to go and see her at her house. We met on occasion at a cafe for a catch up, and we would write frequently. Sadly we lost touch when her mum was very ill and she went back to Poland - I don't know if she ended up staying out there perhaps. That was around 2008/9 because we moved house and I remembered thinking if she did come back to the UK, she didn't have my new address (unless she was still getting the post).

FB friends with my old form tutor. I left school nearly 30 years ago! He was fresh out of uni when he got us, think he had a soft spot for us as his first form.

My mum is friends with my first ever teacher from primary from the early 80s.

I'm 52 and I'm FB friends with my old J4 teacher (would be Y6 now). He was, and still is, an extraordinary man and the best teacher I ever had, and it's been lovely to reconnect with him. He's on our old school's FB group and has anecdotes and memories of practically every old pupil on there, spanning decades. I talked about him so much when DS was in junior school that when I mentioned that we'd bumped into each other on FB, DS went 'What....the Mr Roberts?' as if I'd said I'd sat next to David Bowie on the bus.

Yes but only because I went back and taught at both my former Sixth Form and Secondary School.
I have a few of my former Sixth form students on my FB they are all adults now and homeowners and parents well into their 30s and it's lovely to see what they have achieved.

I'm surprised staff are directly emailing a students personal email address without CCing in a parent. I'm sure guidance changed whilst I worked at the Sixth Form where it had originally been deemed ok if the student had left and was 18+ to have them on your SM and then it became an absolute no-no.

Yes, late 40s and still in touch with one of my A level teachers ... but he happens to be my dad! He is still in contact with a number of colleagues many of whom taught me so plenty of people know what I'm up to. It's nice as, through them and him, I find out about various others in my year group.

A school friend of mine is now best mates with our A level English teacher. Another friend's parents have been on holiday with our secondary head teacher which is just eeewwwww.

My DS emailed the teachers school email from his personal (after he had left the school)

I’m a teacher and had a particularly great small sixth form class who I’d taught since year 8. In our school we can’t have contact with students until they have been left for 3 years, although I’ve have news of a couple of them via their parents. They have now been left 3 years so at Christmas I’m meeting up with them for hot chocolate and muffins, promised to them in the dark covid days!!

Nope. I wouldn't want to be friends with any of them.

As I'm in my late 60s I expect they're pretty much all of their last legs or deceased.
I kept in touch with a couple the first couple of years post 6th form but that was it. They were all over 40, even then.

Same here. Most of mine probably think I'm in either prison or a mental hospital

I wrote to my old primary school teacher who I adored about 15 years ago. He was so pleased to get a letter from me, and wrote back. I’m so glad I took the time to tell him how much he meant to me as he died not long after.

DH teaches a subject in a primary school. He had an email from a student saying that he had just secured an apprenticeship in this area and that DHs lessons are what led him in that direction. It was so lovely to hear.

I bumped in to a teacher about a decade ago in my late forties, we were both delighted to see each other. I hadn’t actively stayed in touch with any of them. I’m 58 now so assume many would have died. Two of them especially were a great positive influence on me.

The other way around. I am in touch with 3 old pupils on FB in their 30s now, I was delighted to hear from them. All three were jolly nice students. All got in touch long after school days.

I'm a retired teacher, and going out for lunch with an old student next week. Several of my students keep in touch via FB, once they went to uni, letting me know how they are doing. I'm always happy to hear from them once they are over 18 and off roll.

The student I'm lunching with next week is almost 30 now.

DS isn't friends with them but just emails asking how the school has changed now and what he's been up to.

I keep in contact with my old GCSE media teacher. Left school in 2007!