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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are more likely to be treated as professionals when others view them as professionals --- these special favors, special caretaking, doesn't help with their image. It's excessive.[/quote]

Tell it to the PTA You act like this is teacher driven. I agree with a PP. All I want is for parents to send their kids to school prepared and stop making excuses for them. I don't need gifts or food or anything else.[/quote]

If teachers told the PTA that these things are counterproductive to teachers being viewed/treated as professionals, so please limit them to supply requests, I doubt the PTA would just continue doing this.  Also, the PTA isn't going to proactively stop doing multiple days of teacher appreciation week activities because they don't want to appear as if they don't appreciate teachers.  Teachers could, however, request that activities be restricted to one day during that week.  Do you really want a flower one day, one chocolate another day...While those seem like no big deal, it's a pain.  I guarantee, parents would give one nicer gift if there was only one day.  Any of this would have to come from teachers.  The PTA will never stop this because parents say something.  A lot of PTA folks volunteer because they think it will get their kids preferential treatment.  [/quote]

I wouldn't want to be the teacher who tells the PTA to stop.  PTA parents who really drive these activities are often at doing it to feel like they are making a difference in their community.  If you tell them that their contributions are unwanted, they get their feelings hurt and can get resentful.  [/quote]

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