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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don’t do any more than a kind note. I feel awkward when I receive money. I usually ease the guilt by using the gift card on classroom supplies, but I’d rather just receive a note.

I’m a professional and it just feels… odd. I don’t give other professionals in my life gift cards.

Thank you for the thoughtfulness, but it isn’t necessary.

-high school teacher [/quote]

NP. Totally disagree here. I'm a financial professional and my clients occasionally give me gifts, including gift cards. When it happens, I am surprised and happy. I make seven figures but man I still was touched and appreciative when a client for whom I'd gone above and beyond during her divorce gifted me with a note and a $50 Starbucks gift card - and gave $25 coffee cards to each of my staff. Everyone was thrilled. I don't typically go to Starbucks - all those years of reading personal finance books advising me not to succumb to the latte factor stuck - but I sure did enjoy hitting up the drive through with my gift card and every time I did, I thought of my client with affection.

I have never met a teacher who didn't appreciate a gift card. It's just a nice way to say thank you.[/quote]

Well, you've "met" multiple now. I'm another one begging the gift cards to please stop. It's not appropriate, it's very possibly against regulations if it's more than a trivial ($25) amount, and it's uncomfortable if I'm ever going to be responsible for grading or recommending or evaluating your child in any way.

A cute little trinket worth <$2? (Pen, sticker, bottle of coke) Fine. A note of appreciation? PERFECT. But anything with monetary value attached to it is uncomfortable. If you're going to do it, please please please keep it under $25. I don't want to have to report it to admin and make it a thing.[/quote]

Thank you!

I love notes and small tokens, but gift cards are unsettling. It feels extremely wrong to accept money for a recommendation.

I have received them in the past. If I can’t graciously give it back, I end up taking the time to find out what my department needs. Then I use the money to purchase that, which also takes time.

But I’d really rather just have the nice note. That actually appears to be the consensus on this thread.

Parents: most people do nothing. It’s rare that I receive even a verbal “thank you” for the recommendation letters. Trust me when I say the note itself already stands out. [/quote]

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