Teacher Appreciation…Or Harassment. Whichever.
A few weeks ago was Teacher Appreciation week. This is the holiday in which we say thank you to our educators with tens and twenties. I hope you observed the event accordingly.
A student I had last year handed me a sweet little note last week. I thought I would share.
Dear Ms. Jones,
On behalf of teacher appreciation week and you being a pretty bad good teacher, I thought I would give you a very appreciative letter from myself. You’re welcome.
So here are some legit reasons for why I love you, sort of:
-You aren’t a mean teacher (Note from Jen: Not mean? This hurts my feelings.)
-You like me from than Kelsey (from Jen: another student, one of her BFFs)
-You taught me how to speak. Now I OWN when I give speeches.
-You’re sarcastic (you taught me well in that area) (Note from Jen: I totally DO NOT teach sarcasm. I’m so sure. But if that job ever comes open, I seriously want it.)
-Because God sort of loves you, so I have to, I guess.
-You’re an author (woo!)
-You’re fashionable…ha, ha, ha (Note from Jen: WHAT does that mean? Are you saying sweats are not appropriate professional attire?)
-You watch Gossip Girl (NFJ: I think she meant Masterpiece Theatre)
-You put up with me. (Amen to that, sister.)
-Let me skip seminar/study hall to hang with you. (NFJ: I have no idea what she’s talking about. That also sounds unprofessional, therefore I would have nothing to do with that.)
-You have not one but two Facebooks. (NFJ: One for each personality.)
-Kept my awesome artwork. (She creates psychotic, deranged artwork of bipolar characters. So why WOULDN’T I hang that on my wall?)
-Cause your class was super hard easy.
-You make fun of people like Kelsey.
That just shows only 1/1,000,000,000 of my love for you. I hope you feel honored by me doing this because it took about 3 hours and 12 minutes and 13 seconds to do. (From Jen: Just a thought, but you could’ve made me 3 batches of brownies in that same amount of time.) If you ever change schools, I will cry and then go cut my wrists. Yeah, that’s right I would, Ms. Jones. I just wanted to let you know. (She’s KIDDING. She is so not a cutter. Even though she draws them and makes me hang their pictures on my walls.)
Love,
Hammy A. (Your favorite student. Tennis Player. Honor Student. Superstar. Future President. Disciple of Christ.) (NFJ: And cutter-wannabe)
So there are perks to being a teacher! You could get awesome letters like that. And clearly I need to work on my being mean. I think I’ve slipped a little.
Well, it’s Tuesday night as I write this, and I need to do my thumb and index finger warmups for American Idol. Go David Cook!
Have a great Wednesday.
Jen, Non-Mean Teacher
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Love it. LOL.
Haha, that was funny and perfect. I loved the “Because God sort of loves you, so I have to, I guess” hehe. &&& ahh, Gossip Girl, that’s my super secret guilty pleasure.
Hehe, how sweet and funny!
PS: Yay for the new American Idol!! I’m pretty sure those 12 million votes that made the difference were from you;) Now, I can finally let go of the fact that Daughtry was robbed.
Jen
Please pray for me. I am going on teaching job interviews right now. Thank you.
i am SO glad that David Cook won American Idol…he is SO good!! this blog was hilarious! I wish there were teachers at our school who would act this nice to us(even if they were pretending) lol (although some of us dont deserve it…)lol. good thinking on voting 12 million times! lol jk i know only half of those were from you…or were they? (DUH-DUH-DUH!!!!!) lol
Why can’t I have super awesome teahcers who hang MY deranged art work on the walls?! Or teahcers who aren’t so old that they think a facebook is a nifty photo album?!
all my teachers do is give me lunch detention for chewing non-existent gum and provide premature arthritis.( Me and my BFFs figured out why our teacher is out to give us arthritis. You see, a looooong time ago, about 2001, he invested in some arthritis medication stock to pay off his fees accumulated over the years from stealing camels and spending that money to build a pirate themed theme park in Toledo.
Ms. Jones,
Thank you for be so open to our class and letting me bring food in for my speech today. It really inspires me to see you continue to write amazing Christian books which are sold all over the US; especially since you are also a teacher and I am sure at a very young age accomplishing SO much. Keep standing for what you believe in, and have an impeccable summer!
ps. Good luck in Orlando, I am rooting for you to win the award!
Ms. Jones-
Hmm, let me just say I had NO idea why we need to put the period on the initial, but it is totally cool. I would totally put the little deal on my “C” just for you. Anyway, I am so (times ten billion) glad I had you as a Oral Comm teacher. Yeah, well, you know how I tend to overboard (both speeches, friends, food, etc. Oh, and life. Let’s not forget life). So mine’s probably really long and you have to pay extra for the space. I really don’t know. Websites aren’t my specialty. You absolutely rock, and excrutiatingly funny, it makes me want to throw up and become bulimic. But that’s out of this league. Thanks for being all-totally cool and serious about actually making us learn. I know I did.
I despise students who say “I luv you, Ms.—” because my mom was/is totally a teacher and I KNOW I love her more-I seem to have a little of jealousy mental issues…But I do love you, I can totally see you as like, 40 and still rockin’. I’ll keep checking this blog, even though my cousin told me I have OCD about wanting to know who the “blog enterer’s” true life form, I’ll try to keep it low. Don’t worry. I am totally normal. I know everyone agrees and loves me.
Fantastic and very rare love from one truly fab student,
-D
Brittanie, def. praying for you. Hope you got my message.
I think at least a few million of those votes were mine! Okay, actually it was nearly impossible to get through the lines, so few of those votes were mine, but it’s the trying that counts.
Julia, nonexistent gum is a little talked about problem in this world, and your teachers are only doing you a favor by trying to steer you away from it. Nonexistent gum–you don’t know what your messing with.
And Courtney B., I have NO idea what you are talking about. Food? In my classroom? I would never. That is a place for learning.
Okay, actually you might be one of my all-time faves because you have managed to make food relevant to nearly all your speeches. Please fail and come back next year.
Um, Don Bee. You might be OCD, but I think that would make a really cool t-shirt. But you’re neurotic even more. And please don’t puke. Puking is so gross. And it accomplishes nothing except giving you another reason to brush your teeth. Which you may already do 10 times a day being ocd and all. I dunno. : )
haha! thanks for putting my note on there!