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SOme schools require teacher appreciation gift money to not only be collected for the teacher but specials teachers, too. Some also require the room parent to collect for birthday gifts. You realize that changing it means attending the pta meetings, suggesting the change, getting it approved. This isn’t a snap your fingers type of thing and very likely wouldn’t be approved at our school since we implemented the required specials teachers funds. Going backward the specials teachers don’t get gifts. There were complaints that it wasn’t fair to them. [/quote]

Are these schools public schools?  It seems very wrong for public schools to require the parents to fund so many gifts for the teachers.  I'm shocked that it's even legal for gifts to be required in such a manner.   [/quote]

The schools don’t require that gifts are funded. Some schools require that if gifts are given, they are shared with the specials teachers and the room teachers. For example, my child is in a language immersion classroom. There are three total teachers. The money we gathered for a holiday gift was split evenly between the three teachers. Some schools require that the money be split between the three teachers plus the librarian, music, art, PE and whatever other specials there are. I would have been fine if the money was split between the five first grade teachers, 3 language immersion and 2 general education first grade.

At my sons Preschool, they pooled all the gift money and distributed it equally across all the rooms after noticing that the rooms with the younger kids tended to have lower donations then the rooms with older kids. His school  took ages 3 months until 5. This makes sense because the younger rooms are more expensive then the upper rooms so parents were more cash strapped and the teacher to student ratio was higher. The solution was one large pool for all the teachers.

Essentially, schools have different rules so that gift money is shared in an equitable fashion. [/quote]

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