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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I blame the teachers for this nonsense. Teachers could lay-out what will be done/not done. This is their classroom, not the room parents. They should be running their classrooms, as they wish.[/quote]

Maybe- the room parents job is to communicate with the parents and coordinate parties, supply needs, and organize teacher gift. But I blame fcps. Fcps should not allow room parents too coordinate gifts for teachers. People should only gift on their own if they want to and not be pressured to participate. [/quote]

There is more pressure to participate if everyone gives an individual gift because then the teacher knows who contributed and who did not. I remember as a kid making a gift for my Teacher, my classmates who bought her something got hand written thank you notes but I got nothing. If you don't think that the message was that the purchased gifts mattered and the ones made by kids did not you are crazy.

The group gift allows people who cannot afford to give something or who have a reason for not giving something (maybe they don't like the Teacher, maybe their faith is different and it would be weird for them to give something) to not be singled out. [/quote]

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Group gift is much much better and I appreciate when room moms coordinate one. [/quote]

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