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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have given gifts for all teacher's birthdays, holidays, and teacher appreciation week including teachers outside the classroom.  And in addition we contributed to gifts for the class twice this year and volunteered several times.  I will give something at the end of the year, but it won't be substantial.  I personally just don't like the constant request for gifts all through the year and when you have to get gifts for more than one teacher at a time it does add up.[/quote]

I want to teach here! 
I teach HS and here is a list of all of the xmas gifts I have received in the last 12 years: 
1. a $20 Starbucks gift card, 2011 (awesome!)
2. A bag of Lindt Chocolate truffles, 2008 (awesome!)
3. "Suck my dick" written in purple marker on my classroom door, 2002 (super awesome!)
4. Xmas cards with very sweet notes from students, various years (best gift - well, except for the Starbucks gift card)

So really people, anything you want to give at anytime is greatly appreciated. I promise. I don't expect anything. I feel bad for the poster above; that does suck that you are solicited for gifts throughout the year. That isn't what it is about, but teachers, like any other profession (or SAHM!) like to be acknowledged for a job well done (if you think it was a job well done). 
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You are hysterical! I bet you are a great teacher too:) thanks for the ideas, not the op, but I will get ours a Starbucks card. [/quote]

I loved that post too-especially the "super awesome" part.

I can stand at one of those gift card racks for 30 minutes second guessing myself and then I decide to see if another store has better cards. This year we got "wish lists" from the room-mothers. Made.life.much.easier. If I am going to spend money on a giftcard I would rather just know it's a store/restaurant the teacher likes. I used to do Starbucks cards (which I love), but I've read enough DCUM threads to know some people hate getting them?!

You know it's always the best teachers who don't expect anything, but are so grateful for anything. It's the crappy ones who scoff at gifts or decide families must have enough money to spend more. I actually overheard a preschool teacher crying because her class only gave her modest gifts at the end of the year. I know for a fact each parent in that class was asked to give 40-50 a person for the winter holiday Visa card. I also know said teacher drives a fancy car and lives in a swanky neighborhood. Apparently some cards, plants, etc just did not meet her expectations. Oh and she wasn't a great teacher at all.[/quote]

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