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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Starbucks gift cards- can't go wrong![/quote]

Yes you can--I have probably $150 of them in my wallet.  I hate coffee and I'm not waiting in that line for a muffin.  I give them away, which is fine, but not really a gift to me.[/quote]

+1, never go there.[/quote]
We should get teachers nothing then. Ungrateful.[/quote]

You are being difficult. It has been said over and over again gift cards to Amazon or Target. Universally appreciated. Why are so many people trying to be creative? Isn't it nice to just get the most simple and useful gift for the teachers?

I do think the Starbucks pp is a ungrateful. A Starbucks gift card had to be one of the most regifteable presents ever. If you give your kids' teacher that, than you don't have to use your own money. Unless you throw them away, you did get a gift. [/quote]

I'm the Starbucks PP--OP asked, I answered, and yes, you CAN "go wrong" with a Starbucks gift card. I appreciate anything my students give me.  I work at several schools, including a Title I.  I've found the most thoughtful gifts come from those families.  I once got a pack of gum.  I know the kid was probably begging the parent for a gift to give his teacher, and she had that in her purse so that's what I got.  I've also gotten small statues or trinkets that obviously were sitting in their home.  I would never throw those away.

If you are genuinely asking for a "best" gift fir teachers, I was simply answering that Starbucks cards are not it, based on MY experience.  I am grateful to the students who give them to me, but they are not any more useful to me than the coffee mugs everyone here apparently hates.  The reason Target and Amazon have come up frequently is you can buy anything there, so the gift is fairly universal.  That's not true for Starbucks.[/quote]

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