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[quote=Anonymous]OP, just don't.  I support the PTA in a number of ways, but I do not support these types of events.

We do appreciate our teachers.  At the start of the year, I give each of our homeroom teachers a Target gift card to get any additional supplies they need for the class or individual students.  I am not a teacher, but we have several dozen friends who are teachers and every single one of them, spends money out of their own pocket for their class or individual students in their classes who do not have the same resources as other kids.  When we hear of teachers needing additional school supplies, I periodically purchase what they need and ship it to the school (for example, recently I heard that teachers in our grade were out of tissues and disinfecting wipes, so I ordered a case of each from Amazon and shipped it to the teachers at the school).   At the holidays and the end of year, we give Visa gift cards to the teachers as appreciation gifts for them.

I would rather spend 15 minutes getting them a Visa gift card that they can really appreciate, than send a couple of hours baking something for them that half of them will not eat and will either donate or trash.  So, reduce the anxiety on yourself.  Don't bake, just give them a gift card in whatever amount you can afford.  Honestly, even a $10 gift card is more likely to be appreciated than baked goods.[/quote]

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