Give Your Teacher This Note!: (Parents Say the Funniest Things)

By Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham

This book is a collection of endearing, lively, and comical

letters, notes, and comments from students parents. These were

gathered over a period of 30 years, by the author. The purpose of

the book is to show that parents, teachers, and administrators share

a close and familial relationship. The book further demonstrates

the pride and devotion parents and educators have for the schools

they support.

Because parents are involved in an enormous array

of activities related to their children, they frequently write very

comical letters, notes, and comments explaining the childs

absences, their own opinions on issues, important improvements

for schools, and education in general.

The publication seeks to bring a smile on the faces of all

who read these letters, notes, and comments.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 21, 2006
• ISBN: 9781420872873

Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham

Dr. Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham was born in Memphis, Tennessee where she was one of eleven children.  In 1963, she graduated from Mitchell High School.  On being a Debutante for the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, in Memphis, she states, “…the love and attention received from this fraternity helped me to focus on my future, and make positive contributions to society.” The numerous anthologies she compiled with the students and teachers at Booker T. Washington High School, in Atlanta, Georgia, received citywide recognition.  Some of these anthologies are archived at the Atlanta History Center.  In 1992, when Senator Zell Miller was the governor of Georgia, Dr. Cheatham became one of the recipients of the Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Dr. Cheatham taught French, Humanities, and English in Atlanta, and was also an Instructional Coordinator for the Center for the Humanities Magnet Program for 12 years.  She is now an Assistant Principal at Atlanta’s Ralph J. Bunche Middle School (A NASA Explorer School).  In 1967, she graduated from Morris Brown College, in Atlanta, with a Bachelors degree in French; received a Masters degree in French from Saint Louis University; earned a second Masters degree in Liberal Education (Humanities) from Saint John’s College (Santa Fe, New Mexico); completed a Specialist degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Georgia State University; earned her Doctorate degree in Educational Leadership at Walden University, in Minneapolis; studied Greek and Latin lyric at Harvard University; and was a MacArthur Fellows Award recipient. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. For over 30 years, Dr. Cheatham kept a file of the most lively, endearing, and comical letters, notes, and comments she received from her students’ parents.  She brings her favorite ones to this publication.

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© 2006 Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham, Ph.D.. All rights reserved.

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without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 7/18/2006

ISBN: 1-4208-7287-7 (e)

ISBN: 1-4208-7286-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4208-7287-3 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005906456

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Illustrations by Gwendolyn Jevita

Cheatham, Ph.D. and Martin Mensah

Contents

Acknowledgments

Give Your Teacher This Note!

With love and affection, I dedicate this publication to my dear mother, Rosanna Manus Cheatham and her twin sister, Georganna Manus Brison (Auntie Ann). These beautiful and courageous women taught me that obstacles are only temporary challenges.

Some people were born to dance; others were born to sing;

I was born to teach.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my family for their love and encouragement. I thank my friends for awakening in me the desire to publish this collection. I also thank my students’ parents for their support throughout the years. Teachers and administrators need parents as we attempt to motivate our students to become life-long learners and good citizens.

Give Your Teacher This Note!

Dear teacher,

My daughter says you are very smart. I told her that you, probably, went to college.

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Dear teacher,

I visited my child’s class. There were 25 students, but only 20 desks were there. Will the students take turns standing, or what?

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Dear teacher,

A mounted police officer caught up with me and gave me a speeding ticket. Do I have to pay it?

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Dear teacher,

Why do teachers always give homework on Fridays? This messes up the whole weekend.

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Dear teacher,

I do not know why my child gets such bad grades. His IQ is a perfect 20-20!

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Dear teacher,

I will bring my son’s project to school later today. His father has not finished it yet.

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I am almost finished with my son’s project.

Dear teacher,

I have been married to my husband