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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You sound like a nightmare of a parent. Public school, huh? Otherwise, I'd send you packing. That poor child of yours.
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Very unfair, it's okay for a parent to NOT like a teacher, and NOT provide an OPTIONAL gift.   Not all teachers are wonderful, some are barely competent, and some are assholes.  Your public school comment was very rude.

To the OP, don't worry about the total..  
To be honest with you I doubt it matters how you sign the card.  The teacher has been dealing with these parents all YEAR long having to collect permission slips and other things from parents, she has a good handle on what kind of class you have.

[b]Personally I give each teacher a $50 gift card at the end of every year, sometimes $25 at Christmas and $25 at the end of the year.[/b]  It's against the policy of our schools to collect for class gifts.  I just think of our favorite restaurant and we tip our minimum wage waiter more than that over the course of a  month.  My kids get together gift bags with a homemade card and small items like chocolate and a little gift for the teacher so [b]even if there was a class contribution I still think I would have my kids personally give our gift from our family[/b].  [/quote]

That's great that you are so generous and prefer to give personally. But how does it look when the teacher gets a $50 gift card from "Susie" and then a $50 gift card from "The class"? That's the point here. Would you be OK if class gift did not include Susie's name? After reading all these, I'm thinking the teacher would be thrilled to get the $100 period. And she would probably figure out that Susie was so generous personally that the class gift is probably from like 5 people.

But then the crux of the whole situation, as people point out again and again is the people who don't bother to participate in any way. Why do they get to freeload? I think it's just one of those things and not worth stressing about. Collect what you can, use the tricks that you can (like having two people call, or insinuating there will be a card to sign when you get the contribution). But it's just not worth the stress. A nice gift to the teacher is what counts here, whatever it is! Good luck all and Happy Holidays.  [/quote]

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