How Do I Thank the Teachers Who Wrote My Recommendations?

Sally_Rubenstone
Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:06:28 +0000

another teacher at the school, got a bottle of Scotch which I (legally) purchased in Edinburgh a couple months prior (my essay had a lot to do with Scotland).

I think that’s very cute although I know that some folks would question a gift of alcohol from a student to a teacher. But, many years ago, when my husband and both taught the same students at an American school in England, we used to get very different gifts at Christmas and at the end of the year. The kids would typically give me stuff like Avon perfumes and soaps (a number of them seemed to have Avon-saleswoman moms) but, when stuck for a gift for a guy, they’d give my husband bottles of wine and brandy. I always thought that he he got the better end of that deal.