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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a bunch of tightwads you are all.

Poor kids shouldn't get presents

[b]Teachers don't deserve a gift over $20[/b]

Got it.  [/quote]

Teachers are not legally allowed to accept a gift over $20. That has nothing to do with what they do or don't deserve.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/bbb.pdf[/quote]

Well I have given every one of my kid's teachers min $50 gift card/gift for winter and end of year and no one ever returns it.   I also give my mailman, trashmen, hair dresser etc... big holiday tips.  Do they have a minimum?  What a stupid policy.  [/quote]

As an educator, I find it highly offensive that you feel you should "tip" me.  I'm not your "help".  I am a professional, and I have several years' experience, so I make close to six figures for 10 months of work.  I deserve that, and I'm compensated for my work.  I am not a service professional, like a hairdresser, who does not make a salary.  I probably have better health insurance than you do.  I don't need your "tip".  [/quote]

Wow, you are a total and complete bitch.  Hope my kid never has you for a teacher so you can roll their eyes at their gifts.  Every year we make candies together, fill a mason jar,  write a thank you note and attach a $25 Starbucks gift card.   I will make sure I don't do that now.  Didn't realize it offended.  Wow, I am just shocked.

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I wouldn't have used the same wording as the teacher PP, but I get her point.  I don't need a holiday gift either.  My daughter, who's 10, will give a gift to her teacher b/c she wants to. But as an adult, I don't involve myself.

I'd rather get a thank you card, and while I love coffee, I can pay for my drinks.  In fact, I do every morning.

Teachers in MCPS receive good salaries.  My husband, also a teacher, makes about $10K more than I do. We're in the low $200,000s.  I hardly see that as being poor.

So gifts should be given by children - not by parents.

I'm in a service profession - but with three degrees.  So I don't really need coffee from Mommy or Daddy.[/quote]

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