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Potato -potahto. Point is, it’s generally expected that a room parent organies class gifts at least for Xmas, teacher appreciation week and usually the end of year. You all you think it’s a choice and you don’t have to - it’s generally understood that is a part of the job. Don’t know about you, but if I take a job I do it to the best of my ability. You all are cheap and and unappreciative. We’re talking about $5 or so per family per gift. If it’s so offensive to you that teachers are given gifts a few times a year, don’t contribute. We will continue to spotting you so that she feels appreciated. [/quote]

[b]What other professional needs gifts multiple times per year to feel appreciated?[/b]  I just don't get it.  My mom taught for 30 years.  She got some X-mas gifts and maybe some flowers for teacher's appreciation week.  It really was enough.  Where is this whole idea coming from that teachers need multiple cash presents in each year to feel appreciated?  If kids make cards for their teachers and write why they love their teachers, is the teacher really not going to feel appreciated without money?

PP, I still think you're a bossy busybody who decided what teachers ought to have, and then want to bully everyone else into financing what you view as an appropriate gift or a party.  You really need to chill out.  Gifts are gifts.  They're not a tax or a fee.  And kids can enjoy simple, non-bourgeois parties.    [/quote]

Don't you get bonuses at your job? Holiday party, company picnic, staff appreciation lunches? It would be ideal if the school system paid for these, but since that is not the case, I don't have an issue with chipping in to make these types of things happen.

Also, do you give gifts/bonuses to your cleaning people, hairdresser, trash collectors, etc? Why not show appreciation to teachers?[/quote]

My husband and I have never gotten bonuses.  We don't have cleaning people, our trash collectors are county paid, etc.  You can show reasonable appreciation but the demand is greedy.  I donate a lot to the classroom.  [/quote]

You see it as a demand. I see it as a way to appreciate people who positively affect my family’s life:  tutor, leader of book club, teacher, dentist if we go that month, close neighbors, all get something.  What’s the “a lot” you’re donating to the classroom?  Supplies for the kids - like napkins for parties - or gifts for a teacher to thank her?

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And it’s fine if you see it that way, but when you dictate and demand how other families spend their money, it’s a problem. When room moms try to shame parents into contributing, it’s a problem. When room moms overspend their budget, it’s a problem. When room moms choose to add money from their own pocket then complain about it as though they were forced, it’s a stupid problem. [/quote]

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