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Thank you.  I'm a former teacher and former PTA board member and current mom.  I wish we could just do away with the whole thing.  As a teacher, all I wanted was a nice note copied to my principal.  I didn't want any gift cards, or fattening lunches, or a yogurt truck, or anything else.  Just a nice note.  As a mom, this week is just too much.  I ignore it.  I wish PTA people would stop doing this.  To be honest, it feels like out and out bribery - a couple of SAHMs, almost always white and upper middle class, lavishing a bunch of gifts on teachers and then expecting us to give them and their children special treatment.  [/quote]

I am an Asian American mom who used to give generous cash gifts ($100 each) to all teachers that taught my kids. Once the $limit came into place, I gave during teacher appreciation, thanksgiving,  Jan-Feb period and end of school year.  There was no need for teachers to give my kids special treatment. They were already excelling in academics, ECs and leadership. Also, my kids were well behaved, followed the rules etc.  Yes, we too are UMC and I am a SAHM. We had the financial bandwidth to give cash gifts to everyone. To the truly exceptional teachers, we wrote the notes and copied the principal. [/quote]

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