Sun Valley seniors carry thank-yous to the teachers who taught them

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At Sun Valley High School in Aston, Pennsylvania, 15 senior cheerleaders decided to thank the adults who had looked after them. They went from room to room with gifts and thank-you messages. The stops included teachers and the head custodian, the person who keeps the building clean and running. Seniors are students in their last year of high school. They used that year to go back down the hall and say, out loud and with a gift, that the work those adults do had mattered to them. The story is one school and one day of visits, not every classroom in the state.

1. Who at your school does work that students might forget to thank?
2. Why might a thank-you in person feel different from a note left behind?
3. What could your class give a teacher that does not cost much?

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