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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you have to give the teacher a gift out of that pot of money? Aren't most people individually giving teachers a gift/tip for Christmas?[/quote]

We did one year at the day care/preschool and then it moved to the room mom collecting and giving a group gift. The concern was that kids whose parents gave more money would get special treatment and there were parents who could not afford to give a gift, our daycare had scholarships.

Ever since we have been at DS's ES we have contributed to a class gift fund. There is an email that goes out asking for contributions and we send money to the room mom, usually via a pay pal account. The email includes the words "Please give if you are comfortable and can, we understand that not everyone is able to contribute." and "You are more then welcome to give your own present if you would prefer." I think most parents donate to the group gift and some have their kids write a special card. We had 52 kids across the two class rooms and gave each teacher $500 in gift cards. That works out to $28 per teacher. I know that our family gave more then that, but we have one child. He had classmates who have three other siblings at the same school, I suspect that they give less.

And I am totally cool with that. We have one kid and are able to donate what we donate.

I like that it is a class gift and not an individual gift because it has to be hard to be the kid who doesn't give a gift because you can't afford to or don't know to or to give the home made gift when other kids give something store bought. I am sure the teachers prefer the gift card to whatever ridiculousness we might have bought them. [/quote]

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