How much do you donate to class room parent for kindergarten teacher appreciation?

[Anonymous]

What is average or what is considered too low? This is for flowers and lunch and breakfast.

DH says $5 since it’s per child and 25 kids are in the room. There’s one teacher and one assistant.

[Anonymous]

They only did this at my kid’s preschool and the “standard” amount was usually $20 per teacher (with a lot of word salad saying that gifts are voluntary and people should give what they’re comfortable with, blah blah.) In elementary everyone handled their gifts individually.

[Anonymous]

$5 is plenty

[Anonymous]

$5 jeez. I was a room mom and that would be out of the norm. Most do $25-$50.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school. If you’re at a school where you’re confident every student contributes/is able to contribute—$5 per kid is fine for a class of 25 ($125 is enough for a breakfast, lunch, flowers for the teacher and assistant). If you’re in a school where most kids probably can’t/don’t contribute, I’d give more ($20-25?). Maybe the room parent can give you an idea of how much is needed to get to the goal $. Our room parent would send another email after $ had been collected if they still needed more and then we’d give a little more.

I’d give more than $5 if really needed but if not necessary, I’d rather keep it at $5 because these things really add up w requests for $ for teacher at Xmas, teacher appreciation, end of school year, especially when you have multiple kids and the kids have multiple teachers.

[Anonymous]

$20 max per policy, so I either give $20 or $25.

[Anonymous]

I do $10. I’m a teacher too and that’s plenty.

[Anonymous]

$25 for the group gift and then $75 per teacher in a gift card in a card.

[Anonymous]

I usually just do $20 for stuff like that.

I figure that is enough and if it is more than needed, it covers for another family who forgets or can’t afford.

UMC suburban public though…if an expensive private school or something I have no clue what is the norm

[Anonymous]

I’ve collected money for this before. Most people do $20-30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$20 max per policy, so I either give $20 or $25.

Same.

I can chip in more than a pay for a Starbucks.

[Anonymous]

They always have a room parent tell us how much.

[Anonymous]

Our school switched to cheddar up and does a genera collection split amongst all room parents to purchase as they wish. So much easier!!!

[Anonymous]

Wow. This hasn’t gone up much. Thirty years ago, we did $15-20 private school, smaller K class size, NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
They only did this at my kid’s preschool and the “standard” amount was usually $20 per teacher (with a lot of word salad saying that gifts are voluntary and people should give what they’re comfortable with, blah blah.) In elementary everyone handled their gifts individually.

+1 This. 5$ is pretty cheap unless you're in a high poverty school.