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[quote=Anonymous]I rarely do much for Teacher Appreciation month because I always hate employee appreciation activities. My experience is that management does lame employee appreciation activities in order to try and make up for low pay, bad culture, and poor systems and services. So you wind up at some bagel breakfast on a Thursday, making small talk and having to feign enthusiasm and gratitude for something you aren't very excited about, when you'd really rather be back at your office finishing up a project.

So I do low key things that don't require awkward conversation or gratitude. I'll have my kids make a car and send in a gift card. We make the gift cards no more than $20 because my DH works in government and he wouldn't be allowed to accept more than that, so we figure teachers are in the same boat. We also try to buy things from the teacher's Amazon wish list throughout the year and ask what they need for the classroom at parent teacher conferences and back to school nights and try to get it for them.

I think the flowers, snacks, treats and gifts are appreciated by some but others don't care. It's not my style and I refuse to be coerced into it.[/quote]

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