Teacher Appreciation Week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi All,

How does your school handle donations or gift cards to teachers for teacher appreciation week? Are all donations split equally among all the staff members (over 100) at a school? Or do classroom teachers get more? How do you handle the specialists and aides? Thanks.

At our school we don’t make arrogant assumptions that we are getting something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi All,

How does your school handle donations or gift cards to teachers for teacher appreciation week? Are all donations split equally among all the staff members (over 100) at a school? Or do classroom teachers get more? How do you handle the specialists and aides? Thanks.

At our school we don’t make arrogant assumptions that we are getting something.

Thanks for sharing but that has nothing to do with the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to have to agree that the custodian should get good gift cards. They literally clean up sh*t.

There is a separate time of year to appreciate them. They (like teachers) will often get food, presents, gift cards, etc.

Exactly. Including them in “teacher” appreciation is just odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to have to agree that the custodian should get good gift cards. They literally clean up sh*t.

There is a separate time of year to appreciate them. They (like teachers) will often get food, presents, gift cards, etc.

Pretty sure they just get notes of appreciation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to have to agree that the custodian should get good gift cards. They literally clean up sh*t.

There is a separate time of year to appreciate them. They (like teachers) will often get food, presents, gift cards, etc.

Pretty sure they just get notes of appreciation.

DP, at my ES, teachers donate money to split gift cards 3 ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to have to agree that the custodian should get good gift cards. They literally clean up sh*t.

There is a separate time of year to appreciate them. They (like teachers) will often get food, presents, gift cards, etc.

Exactly. Including them in “teacher” appreciation is just odd.

You're odd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi All,

How does your school handle donations or gift cards to teachers for teacher appreciation week? Are all donations split equally among all the staff members (over 100) at a school? Or do classroom teachers get more? How do you handle the specialists and aides? Thanks.

At our school we don’t make arrogant assumptions that we are getting something.

Thanks for sharing but that has nothing to do with the question.

I think they are saying teachers aren't as entitled as you all. Just a thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we call ours teacher and staff appreciation week and split across all workers. I’m glad it’s done that way because it would be so annoying to have to send money multiple times for every appreciation holiday a school has - custodial, cafeteria, reading day, administrative, nurse, bus driver…the list goes on. I like the one and done concept where everyone is included. Our classroom teachers also get gift collections for birthday, holiday and end of year thank yous.

Most people do not actually contribute to the admin, nurse, bus drivers, or even the cafeteria staff. Teacher appreciation doesn’t have to and shouldn’t include all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Split evenly across staff. The janitor cleaning up vomit and urine deserves just as much as the teachers and principal.

You do not celebrate principals during teacher appreciation week. Omg!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that the majority of the gift cards should go to the teachers and not be split evenly across the board to all staff members. I think it is a nice gesture to try to give something to everyone to show our appreciation, however it should be based on some kind of tiered system where classroom teachers get the most, then specials, etc.

Why do you value the work of one educator over another? What about DEI?

Well for one, not all of the staff are “educators,” dummy. A nurse is not an educator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Split evenly across staff. The janitor cleaning up vomit and urine deserves just as much as the teachers and principal.

You do not celebrate principals during teacher appreciation week. Omg!!!

We give everyone DC comes into contact with on a regular basis a gift for teacher appreciation week. Including the principals and janitors.

[Anonymous]

So teachers are trying to score more gift cards and being too greedy to share with other members of the school staff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So teachers are trying to score more gift cards and being too greedy to share with other members of the school staff?

No, parents don’t want to send money in to the PTO for them to squander on the freaking admin or the nurse for “teacher” appreciation. Unfortunately the PTO isn’t getting the message. Maybe they will when they come up short of their goal to give every staff member (over 100 mins you) $100 each. This coming directly on the heels of the Read A Thon. Totally tone deaf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So teachers are trying to score more gift cards and being too greedy to share with other members of the school staff?

No, parents don’t want to send money in to the PTO for them to squander on the freaking admin or the nurse for “teacher” appreciation. Unfortunately the PTO isn’t getting the message. Maybe they will when they come up short of their goal to give every staff member (over 100 mins you) $100 each. This coming directly on the heels of the Read A Thon. Totally tone deaf.

That’s ridiculous! They need to do 1 huge staff appreciation a year or several staggered throughout the year for different staff types. I wouldn’t send anything via PTO, just give the teachers something directly.

[Anonymous]

Our PTA wants each parent to donate $100 for the year to cover teacher b-day gifts, holiday parties, and appreciation gifts. The chartered bus trips are another $60 for each trip. The Sprout packages are typically $100 for school supplies. Nothing is cheap.