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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trust me, most teachers find the excessive gift giving awkward too—but how do you say that without sounding rude? “Thank you but please don’t do this again.” Teaching is our job. We aren’t volunteers.[/quote] How do you say it? At the beginning of the school year say to the room parent “Mary, thanks for everything, please do not solicit any money for gifts for me this year. With the federal RIF/uneployment/price of gas/mercury in retrograde I want to be sensitive to the students households” Very easy to say. Very unusual to say.[/quote] What you shared is perfect. The room parent should get it. The parents too. [/quote] There is no teacher I know who doesn’t have email addresses for their whole class and couldn’t send out such a message. The fact that so few do is because they like the extra money and the ability to “blame” the class parent and not look like they’re requiring a bribe.[/quote]
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