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I taught 10 years. Never ever did it occur to me during that time that parents didn't appreciate my efforts because I didn't receive a gift. Never.
OP the best gifts are hand written notes - at least it was for me. I still have every note written to me in a special box that I keep in my office.
Btw, I give $50 to a general Target gift card fund that is distributed to all employees at the school including the staff (cafeteria worker, janitors, etc.). This is in addition to the $50 that each family is asked to contribute to at the beginning of the year for each classroom by home room parents.
As I said in my post that is directly above yours, I was NOT referring to actual gifts but instead was referring to acknowledgment, written or verbal. Gifts are an unexpected and appreciated BONUS.
Since we do Christmas gifts and teacher appreciation week we don't do end of year. I try to spend around $15 per teacher/TA. One thing to check on is to see if they have a list of favorites. The teacher's at our school all have a little blurb on their teacher websites (which can be found on the school website) that have a list of their favorites. It helps parents get something that would be useful to them.
Awww, that's really nice. Do they have a list of suggested gift amounts, like they have printed on restaurant receipts?
Here, I'd say a gift card in the $20-25 range is pretty standard for elementary.
Wow. My daughter always bought a nice $5 box of Hershey's Pot of Gold chocolates for each teacher (they were always team taught) once or twice a year. She was often the only one in her class who brought the teachers a present. There is no such rubbish as an institutional 'teacher appreciation week' or room mothers collecting money for buying gifts for the teacher in our district, and before this thread I never heard of such a thing.
Wow. My daughter always bought a nice $5 box of Hershey's Pot of Gold chocolates for each teacher (they were always team taught) once or twice a year. She was often the only one in her class who brought the teachers a present. There is no such rubbish as an institutional 'teacher appreciation week' or room mothers collecting money for buying gifts for the teacher in our district, and before this thread I never heard of such a thing.
Maybe I shouldn't have said it was standard, but rather not unusual.
I don't know why giving a gift would be seen as "rubbish" or a negative thing to do. We sent my high schooler in with $10 Panera cards for each teacher earlier this month. I know they don't get much.
Awww, that's really nice. Do they have a list of suggested gift amounts, like they have printed on restaurant receipts?
If parents want to get their kid's teacher something they like, then its helpful. Nothing wrong with it. Only something wrong with it is you are overly sensitive and feel like its a demand, not a helpful resource.
We gave both the 4K teacher and assistant $100 gift cards to Ruth Chris at the end of the school year. I realize that's excessive as far as teacher's gifts normally go, but those women were saints with my son, who we've never had in day care and unfortunately turned out to not be well adjusted/behaved around lots of other kids.
Don't feel bad.
Our kid never had daycare and he was the only boy in the class who didn't wind up with an "action plan" for bad behavior or notes sent home for fighting, etc.
I think it helped that he was the oldest kid and has helped take care of his little sister.
We gave both the 4K teacher and assistant $100 gift cards to Ruth Chris at the end of the school year. I realize that's excessive as far as teacher's gifts normally go, but those women were saints with my son, who we've never had in day care and unfortunately turned out to not be well adjusted/behaved around lots of other kids.
It's very generous but not excessive
I've seen some gifts in private school that were excessive
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