Thank you messages
Teachers get told thank you ma’am a thousand times and remember almost none of it. What they remember is being told exactly what they changed. These six try to do that.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
Thank you for making me believe I was capable of it before there was any real evidence for that. I've leaned on that belief a lot of times since, in rooms you'd have no particular reason to know about.
Continue writing with message 1You were the only teacher who noticed I'd gone quiet in class, and you asked me about it afterwards rather than in front of everybody. Thank you for that. It mattered more than you could have known.
Continue writing with message 2I do this for a living now, and it started in your classroom. Thank you. I've said that to a lot of people over the years without ever once managing to say it to you, so I'm saying it now.
Continue writing with message 3Thank you for the extra half hour after school, week after week, when you must have wanted to go home. You never made it feel like a favour being done. It changed the whole of that year for me.
Continue writing with message 4You marked my work honestly when it would have been much kinder to be gentle. I didn't enjoy it at fifteen and I've been grateful for it ever since. Thank you for not going easy on me.
Continue writing with message 5You won't remember this, but you told me once that I was lazy rather than bad at it, and that turned out to be the single most useful thing anybody said to me at school. I've repeated it to other people since as though it were my own idea. Thank you, about fifteen years late.
Give them the evidence they never get. Teachers work without knowing the outcome; the class leaves and the results never come back to them. Tell them what happened next — the degree, the job, the fact that you still use the method — and you are handing over the one thing their work never returns.
Say your batch and year somewhere. A teacher of thirty years has taught several thousand people, and a warm note from a name they cannot place is a small sadness. Class 10-B, 2014, the one who sat at the back is a kindness that costs you four words.
A sealed card with your name and your batch on it beats a forwarded Teachers Day image by a distance.
Write the thank youIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.