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What do you buy for a great teacher who is retiring? (from a former, and now older student)?

My junior high English teacher is retiring, and I want to give her a gift, but I'm not sure what to get. She was a GREAT teacher, and inspired me to pursue a teaching career as a high school English teacher. (I ended up running our hometown newspaper instead, but I hope to teach a journalism class part-time at our school in a few years.) She encouraged my creativity which in turn allows me to do what I do today at the newspaper. She's in her 50s; I'm 25, if that makes a difference....

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I've been teaching for eight years and the best gifts I've received are not the gift cards, or the mugs, or the candy (although I certainly appreciate all of it). The best things I've ever received are letters and notes from my former students. It might be that they write about how my class affected them, or it might just be about what they are currently up to- all of it I enjoy greatly.

    You have to remember, that part of why teachers become teachers is that they love working with young people. It's that relationship you build with each student that makes teaching so meaningful. If I were you, I would simply write a letter to her telling her how much you appreciate all she's done for you. And if you are in touch with some of her other former students, see if they'd be willing to write something too. You might just think that a letter is lame- but let me tell you this. I've gotten gift cards and other little gifts- and I may or may not still have them. But every letter I've ever received from a student - EVERY LETTER- I still have to this day.

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    5 years ago

    Statuatory rape. Gender doesnt count number number. the actual undeniable actuality that one is merely 15 and the different is 25, now to not indicate a former instructor and man or woman who develop into and, as far because the courts will see it, nonetheless is able of authority over the more youthful man or woman, merely makes the total project incorrect. relying on what state the female is from she is everywhere from a million to three years from being "criminal" and "consentual", on condition that a lengthy time period determination interior the U. S. from 16 to 18. in spite of the indisputable fact that merely about each state has a training that if the elder man or woman is in a "position of authority" which the older man or woman will obviously be shown to be in given her status as a former instructor, the age is merely about continually 18. lengthy tale short, if the elder man or woman lays a finger on the more youthful and is stuck, she will appreciate spending the subsequent few years in detention center. And certain, I examine into this that it really is better than "friendship", yet frankly if it develop into purely "friendship" this question might want to in no way of mandatory to be requested.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    an apple =]

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