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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - ok so if I stick to $20 max on gift card, could we give chocolates too?

I think I did $25 or $30 last year without an issue but I don’t want to risk it. Seems embarrassing if it was turned down or if teacher got in trouble. I’ll just gift again later. [/quote]

Do the chocolates have a cash value of more than $0? If so, then that would violate the gift policy.[/quote]

She could have the gift card be Christmas and the chocolates be for winter solstice. You can give it five times a year.[/quote]

I guess if you give them at different times that works. Kind of defeats the purpose of ethics rules and tarnishes the reputation of teachers, but you do you.[/quote]

Given that the amount hasn't increased since 2012, if I were one to try to technically follow the ethics rules, I'd give $50 over 3 days. But I always just print out a $50 gift card and have my kid bring it in, so there is no record over email that the teacher got more than $20 in a single card. [/quote]

Given that “gifts” aren’t supposed to be part of a teacher’s compensation, the concept of a COLA doesn’t apply.

I don’t know what’s worse: you refusing to treat your kids’ teachers as professionals, or your kids’ teachers flagrantly ignoring their ethics rules.[/quote]

Oh yeah, how terrible to give A teacher who is spending hundreds of her own dollars in a supplies a $50 gift card to Amazon to thank her. Just terrible. [/quote]

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