<p>Are parents supposed to provide something more than a formal thank you to teachers that write letters of recommendation for students?</p>
<p>No</p>
<p>Our parent group hosted an appreciation brunch once or twice a year.
It seems like it was held during a no school day, when teachers had to be at school for inservice training.</p>
<p>Thanks! I’m still waiting for two of them to write recommendations. I just wasn’t sure if there was some sort of unwritten rule on monetary thank yous. </p>
<p>Sigh. Deadline is today. I’ve avoided stepping in to the situation, but the kids will be out of luck if the teachers don’t follow through with their promise to write a recommendation. What to do? </p>
<p>I wasn’t aware that parents were supposed to provide anything to the teachers writing the kids’ letters of recommendation. Where I went to school, the kids did the thanking.</p>
<p>Not familiar with internships in high school, I’m thinking of college applications.
Same advice could apply though.
When did they put in their request for recommendations?
At Ds school they had to be in before Thanksgiving.
Teachers generally have a limit of how many they will do, although some teachers are not very good at saying no.
They should have also given them a CV at the same time to make it easier,
Students should be dealing with the thank you’s, although I gave amazon gift cards to teachers that went above & beyond, but that was all four yrs, not connected with college applications & it isn’t generally expected, although that may vary with school.</p>
<p>This is a shorter time frame altogether- applications opened about a month ago, both kids asked the teachers before that and gave them the paperwork three weeks ago. They’ve been reassured that they will write them, I’m just probably worrying too much. </p>
<p>I can see that one of the teachers has only written one while the other has written two total. So we aren’t talking huge numbers here… </p>
<p>I just hate that the kids have spent so much time on this, attending the required pre-application workshop and crafting and recrafting their cover letters, only to be held up. If the teachers don’t come through, then it’s all for nothing. </p>
<p>I gave Starbucks gift cards as Thank You’ s after they were all sent in. </p>
<p>@missbwith2boys, schools generally give a little leeway to recommenders, but you can’t count on that being the case for your program. If the deadline is today, I say contact the teacher and remind him/her of the deadline. DS had one recommender who was always late with the letters. It was extremely frustrating but her letter was important for DS due to the major he is pursuing.</p>
<p>I made my kids do the thanking. They wrote notes to the teachers who did their recommendations. </p>
<p>I think its great you take an interest in child’s recommendation efforts, but as a former educator, I’d expect that the student be solely responsible for the “thank you” efforts. Great behavior to adopt early in their academic and professional career.</p>