How to thank teachers

[kmg1]

The 'teachers' thread has left me feeling really fed up.

My boys attend a fantastic (state) school, and the staff there are ALL absolutely BRILLIANT. I want to thank them and encourage them and make them realise they are appreciated by me. I try to do this - obviously we sent Christmas prezzies and cards with notes in ...

Clearly teachers get some satisfaction from seeing the progress the children make, but I hate to think that my boys' teachers might think that we regard them in the way some posters on here regard their teachers.

So ... on Thursday ds1 came home with a little leaflet about the forthcoming term's work (Year 2). And it was fantastic - brief, but extremely informative, and very well put together. Both dh and I commented how helpful it is. ... Also on the first day of term he had written a book review for her (unrequested), and she read it, and wrote 3 or 4 really inspiring sentences for him about it, and about books/reading in general - on the first day of term - I'm sure she had plenty of other things to do with her time ... I don't see ds1's teacher at all during the week unless I seek her out specially. Should I seek her out specially to thank her and comment, or is that too creepy? I could put a note in his reading book, but that seems even more formal and uncomfortable.

So you teachers out there - do you get thanked/encouraged enough/at all by parents. What do you think?

I agree 100% And as we all know, kids can be very cruel. Some of these families are very chaotic, often with drink and drugs problems. It can be very difficult to get the parents to see that these is a problem.

And their teeth! Awful! I have a cousin who is a nurse in a day surgery ward and she tells me that they have many, many children who have all their teeth out at the age of 3! She says that some of the parents are so loopy and doped up that the children often have more sense than the parents.

And she says that the things she has seen in the Gynae clinic re cleanliness are imposible to imagine.

Much as I admire you lot (teachers) I think I have to admire nurses at least as much! I just wouldn't be able to do that...no way.

Nor me! I agree that they must all be at least part saint (even the iffy ones) She said that you have to change soiled , smelly dressings and smile, so as not to upset the patients. I'd be throwing up myself, I'm afraid.

dinosaur - agree too; couldn't do it either and think they should be paid the earth to do some of the things they do. Two of my aunts were nurses, both now not for varying reasons. One of them was sister in the neo natal ward and she worked so very hard in such difficult circumstances, and she was great at her job. She worked there until se lost her own baby at 6 months - she found it too hard after that; she is now a stay at home mum with her ds (concieved after that). Mu uncle was also a nurse but gave it up when he got married and had children - for a better paid job but still in medical.

Bozza/dinosaur - I think the sixth former was very extreme and certainly not common. He had apparantly been taken aside, with and without his parents, many times whilst at secondary school. It wasn't just BO, not other toilet smells - without being too grphic he didn't appear to clean himself after going to the toilet There was no medical condition either as far as school knew. Why his parents didn't try and do something about it I have no idea. It really was truely awful to be in the room with him, and even afterwards when he'd gone.

Not sure if our school does personal hygiene or not - maybe in biology (as hmb does) or in life skills.tutor time - not a tutor here so don't know.

I once worked in an office and one of the senior staff had a dreadful BO problem. The staff would open all the windows whenever they could, and when he was made redundant they burned his chair, it stank so bad! Some people just don't seem to get it that they stink. And this guy was intelegent, well educated and well paid.

hmb - with this lad I am not sure why he didn't do anything about it. It was so obvious. Let's face it other kids are not the most discrete people are they. His class mates wouldn't sit next to him. I had to almost force them to do group work with him, and he had been spoken to so many times too. Why???

Very odd, hulababy.

It amazes me too! The man I was typing about stank. the rest of the staff would go in any spray his room with airfreshener as soon as he was out of it. And yet he never seemed to realise. At another place I worked a young trainee had to be told to wash because she stank. If that happened to me I would die of embarassment. She just seemed pissed off that we had asked her to do something for her self. I was amazed at her lack of understanding. And she wasn't stupid, just living by different standards.

And you would think that they would feel uncomfortable. I had feeling sweaty, and love to have a shower, and enjoy feeling clean. You'd think that everyone would.

A shame that I've missed out on this all day (work work work!). I've had and still have students like the ones you've mentioned here. The really dirty finger nails, uncut hair, uniform that doesn't fit, or has lost all its colour, or smells musty. It really is sad.

My brother got told he had to shower before getting a flight once by the check-in staff! He had some perfectly valid reason for being smelly, but as his little sister I have to say that it was because he stinks.