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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 341739" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>It seems to me that it could be done but handled differently so no one is left out. My high school has a tradition of senior letters. During the last semester of their senior year, parents, family members, friends, and teachers are encouraged to write letters to the seniors which are collected and put into a folder. Each senior gets a folder on one of the last few days of school during a senior picnic. It is very touching to watch the seniors eagerly tear open their letters.</p><p></p><p>Of course, there are always a few students with very few letters. Even their parents don't bother to write. Our senior sponsor keeps track of how may letters are in each students' folders and sends out a list a few days before the senior picnic asking teachers who taught the students who had less than five letters to write a letter for those students. The sponsor told me that she is touched at the response from the teachers to make sure those kids feel included.</p><p></p><p>One neat story about the letters . . . I wrote one for a student in my Algebra 2 class a few years ago. I could tell that she was a difficult child even though she was never a problem in my class. I just wrote a few lines telling her how much I enjoyed having her in my class and telling her that I knew that she could be successful in life since she had all the tools and just needed to apply them.</p><p></p><p>I saw the girl recently working as a sales clerk in a Michael's craft store. She brought up the letter (I had forgotten that I had even written her one until she brought it up) and told me how much it meant to her. She said that she was going to college part time and working part time. I was so proud of her and actually a little teary-eyed that she still thought about a letter that took me just a few minutes to write.</p><p></p><p>I like the idea of opening the candy grams to family, too. Unfortunately, though, that probably will still leave some children without one. I agree with muttmeister that it is a shame that no good intention goes unpunished.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 341739, member: 1967"] It seems to me that it could be done but handled differently so no one is left out. My high school has a tradition of senior letters. During the last semester of their senior year, parents, family members, friends, and teachers are encouraged to write letters to the seniors which are collected and put into a folder. Each senior gets a folder on one of the last few days of school during a senior picnic. It is very touching to watch the seniors eagerly tear open their letters. Of course, there are always a few students with very few letters. Even their parents don't bother to write. Our senior sponsor keeps track of how may letters are in each students' folders and sends out a list a few days before the senior picnic asking teachers who taught the students who had less than five letters to write a letter for those students. The sponsor told me that she is touched at the response from the teachers to make sure those kids feel included. One neat story about the letters . . . I wrote one for a student in my Algebra 2 class a few years ago. I could tell that she was a difficult child even though she was never a problem in my class. I just wrote a few lines telling her how much I enjoyed having her in my class and telling her that I knew that she could be successful in life since she had all the tools and just needed to apply them. I saw the girl recently working as a sales clerk in a Michael's craft store. She brought up the letter (I had forgotten that I had even written her one until she brought it up) and told me how much it meant to her. She said that she was going to college part time and working part time. I was so proud of her and actually a little teary-eyed that she still thought about a letter that took me just a few minutes to write. I like the idea of opening the candy grams to family, too. Unfortunately, though, that probably will still leave some children without one. I agree with muttmeister that it is a shame that no good intention goes unpunished. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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