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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a lot of daycares, there is no bonus. The holiday gift exists instead of a bonus.

If you can't afford to give anything, fine. But if you say "We can't afford to give to the class gift. We give on our own instead," what you're really saying is that it's more important that you get credit for giving than that the staff and teachers get equitable gifts.

And if you aren't giving because your budget won't allow you to and yet you think the teachers should get raises, I'm curious about where you think that money would come from.[/quote]

Or you want the teachers to know how much you as an individual family appreciate them, and  you want to personalize your thank you as well. I am giving all my daughter's caregivers the same amount in cash and giving them all their own card. I want them to know how much our family appreciates them and I want to hand it to them in person to tell them so. Doing this in no way means a gift is not "equitable," and I'm never a big fan of "group" gifts anyway. [/quote]

I always gave to the group gift and I am sure the teachers know how much I appreciated them because I found ways to do so (hired them as sitters, remembered their birthdays, wrote letters to the director so there's be evidence in their files, etc.)

Ours was a preschool/daycare. If every parent give their kid's teacher the same amount of money, the teachers in the rooms with higher ratios get more money, and who knows what the floater gets? Does that seem fair to you?  [/quote]

I gave cash to all my kids daycare teachers, including the float.
Per the pp's comment, sorry but I'm not having my gift watered down because other parents are cheap AF. DH and I are poors by DCUM standards but we scrape it together and spend a couple hundred on the teachers, it's just the right thing to do. I'm not subsidizing parents who are cheap, sorry.  [/quote]

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