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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Then raise money to buy school/classroom supplies. That has its own ethical dilemmas (e.g., think of poor vs. rich schools), but [b]it doesn’t create an ethical problem for the teacher themselves[/b].[/quote]

That doesn’t make sense if we believe that teachers are handing out unearned good grades to kids from generous families. If a family gives $200 in supplies to the classroom, wouldn’t you also suspect their child gets favoritism? After all, that’s $200 less out of the teachers’ own pocket. And we here on DCUM believe that teachers are too dumb to know how to grade without showing favoritism to kids who gave any type of holiday gift. 
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