Campaign Gratitude: A Tribute to Our Nation’s Educators
Dear family, friends, colleagues, former classmates, former colleagues, and other people that read my blog:
Today, I am starting a letter writing campaign. Every week for the next 10 weeks, I am going to spend 20 minutes writing a letter to a teacher or professor that has made a difference in my life. I want them to know that somewhere along the way, they DID make a difference. Especially at a time when we spend more money on our prison system than our education system, and at a time where we spend more time and money fixing mistakes of older generations than investing in educating and developing our younger generations.
I would like to thank all the educators in our country for the sacrifices they have made for their students over the years.
Thank you:
- For sometimes teaching kids that couldn’t care less about going to school
- For spending your own money buying supplies for your classroom because of the budget cuts
- For staying late at school for parent-teacher conferences
- For grading the endless papers and tests
- For preparing lesson plans
- For expecting more from us
- For challenging us
- For failing us when we deserved it
- For lending your classroom at lunch so that we could have our meetings or a quite space to study
- For setting the curve at a B-
- For being our friends
- For teaching us to be open minded
- For teaching us how to be critical thinkers
- For inspiring us
- And in spite of everything, to still care about us
Thank you for your time 
Please comment on this post if you plan on joining me in writing to your teachers, professors, and past educators. And please help spread this idea!
-Grace
