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teachers: what are some of your most memorable presents?

by Angela_the GOLO Editor
Published Jul 14, 2008
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Happy Monday to the year-round teachers working to beat the heat, and the traditional teachers doing the same...only outside of the classroom.

Here's a quick question for you, and I'm sure you've got some answers that will have us all laughing.

What presents have you received from your students over the years? Tell us about the quirkiest or the ones that left you in tears.

Nothing is off-limits.

Kelly H. told me that a boy in her 4th grade class bought a very tight, form-fitting dress for the teacher and she actually went in the bathroom, put it on and came back out to show them!

Now that's a good one. What's your story?  

 

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When I was in the 7th grade, my family killed a hog and I took MRS Harris (my english teacher) a hogs ear. I put it in a nice box and even gift wraped it.

I would love to hear what Mrs. harris thought about THAT gift!

needless to say she screamed and I was sent to the office....lol

About 15 years ago, we began seeing the first Hispanic students in our class. One little girl arrived in my second grade and had never been to school. She could not speak English and I did not speak Spanish so she was extremely nervous. Over the next three months I became a very good artist and learned barely enough Spanish to help her understand what was going on in the class. Her family was extremely poor but they made sure she had what she needed for school. That Christmas, she brought me a recycled Christmas card that she had cut the back off and replaced with notebook paper. She wrote a note with phonetic spelling thanking me for teaching her to understand and for loving her. I still display that every Christmas with my cards. I lost track of this child as they moved quite a bit, but I pray that wherever she is she has been given the opportunity to rise to her potential. She was a beautiful child inside and out with the ability to learn quickly.

wifemomteacher, Dang I got goosebumps reading that. I thank God for teachers like you. :-)

I have every note that students have written me, as well as every picture. One of my guys brought me a batch of deer jerky that he and his dad had made-it was delicious! I've had kids bring me venison, and that is always appreciated. Just this morning my son and I went out for breakfast and one of my former students was our waitress-she gave me her discount on our order. I think the very best gift was the afternoon that I was pulling a huge limb across the yard to the burn pile and a carload of my boys slammed on brakes, stopped in my yard, came over and took the limb and finished picking up my yard for me. And the group that came to see me two days after my husband's funeral to ask me to come back to watch passing league will always have a special place in my heart. They made me feel like it was important to them that I be there, and they got me out of the house at a time when I wanted to just curl up and hide. I have been so blessed to get to work with many fine young people!

What grade do you all teach? I teach high school, so I rarely get gifts, but I just LOVE the ones I do receive b/c they're that much more special.

Middle school-9 years High school-starting my 10th year in August Retirement-11 years to go!! Be here before I know it....

I keep every note a student writes me. My most memorable gift though came in 1987. I had a little boy who came from a home with many problems, although his mother tried the best she could. He rarely came to school clean and never had money to buy ice cream like most kids. I would buy an extra one or "decide" I didn't want mine so he wouldn't be left out.

One day he handed me a package. Inside was a trianble made of ice cream sticks. Inside was one of the small mirrors like you'd find in a wallet or make up bag. The triangle had two layers. On the back of it, he had put a piece of cardboard behind the mirror. On it he'd written, "I love you Miss XXXXX." Then he signed it Love, (his name).

He had been saving ice cream sticks from class and made it for me. That child came so far that year socially and academically. I still think of him and wonder what became of him. He'd be 28 or 29 now.

I can't spell tonight. That should be triangle not trianble. Didn't catch the typo in time.

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