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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Each of my kid’s school’s PTA’s are hosting holiday cookie exchanges for teachers (parents bake for teachers to make up a box/bag of assorted things to take home) and it also seems like every major or minor extracurricular what’s to do a small secret Santa thing at their last meetup before Christmas.

Do do people have time and energy for this? I’m shocked how many families participate in the baking.

It’s not that I don’t appreciate the teachers, I do, but this seems like so much work so close to Christmas, and my kids don’t need more $5-10 fidgets from all their secret Santa activities.

It all just feels like ONE MORE THING at a busy time of year. Yes I know I can decline (I do decline the baking but my kids don’t want yo be left out of secret Santa) but I’m surprised how many people are so into this.[/quote]

Don't.  Reality is the teachers don't want home baked goods as they don't know how they were made/clean kitchen/hands.   And, same with secret Santa.

Get the teachers a $15-20 gift card from target or Amazon and be done with it.  They don't want any more junk than you want and then they can choose what they want or spend it on the classroom.

You are much better off doing things with that money like buying extra school supplies, wipes and other stuff than all that non-sense.  It makes the PTA feel good about doing something for the teachers while putting no effort into it.  It takes little effort on their part to ask for donations and set them out on a table.[/quote]

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