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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will start this off by saying that we go to a daycare associated with a university and that most of the parents in the class are either two professor families or are one prof and one working professional families so people are making at least 100K a year.

I am the room parent for my daughter's daycare classroom.  All the kids are 2.  There are two teachers - one is technically assistant and one is lead but they share the duties pretty equally.  I sent an email last night asking for donations for the teacher's holiday gift and a note about the classroom holiday party.  The donations I am getting are a joke! Mostly $40 TOTAL.  That's $20 per teacher.  What??

Last year, in the infant room, we gave each teacher (of which there were 3) $150 each! I had been planning on giving $100 per teacher this year. $20 per teacher just seems insultingly low to me.  I am hoping some parents that haven't donated yet are more generous.

Am I way off base in expecting people to be generous to the two people that watch their kid every single day?![/quote]

We gave hundreds (and many parents did the same) to our teachers until some enlightened progressive decided to pool and then divide all donations equally among all teachers and all support stuff.

As a result, donations have fallen by 80%. Great, truly progessive results![/quote]

I think it's SO MUCH better. It's not about the amount of the gift, it's about the fact that it's a shared gift. A lot of money coming from a privileged few is sickening and creates the potential for unfair treatment.
How pathetic that you don't understand that.[/quote]

Families are allowed to give their own gifts to teachers.  The group gift is merely a convenience but it is not mandatory to contribute to it.  If you prefer not to pitch in to the group gift and you want to show your appreciation some other way, nothing is stopping you.[/quote]

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