Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do not ignore the $20 rule.
I have been ignoring this rule for the past 10 years. MCPS has lots of silly rules and this is one of them. We are at a lower-income school and we are not wealthy by DCUM standards (if we were, my kids would be in private).
But teaching in MCPS is hard. MCPS doesn’t seem to support teachers the way it should.
So, when my kids have had a good teacher, I do a $50 gift card at the end of the year with a nice note and sometimes a nice note emailed to the principal to go into that teacher’s file.
MCPS can suck it. $20 is ridiculous. When was that rule even implemented? With inflation and how much things cost now, I have even upped how much I give elementary aged kids gifts for birthdays. Used to do $20 or $25 and have upped that up to $30. Why wouldn’t I do the same for teachers?
Anonymous wrote:We give a bottle of nice wine.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do not ignore the $20 rule.
I have been ignoring this rule for the past 10 years. MCPS has lots of silly rules and this is one of them. We are at a lower-income school and we are not wealthy by DCUM standards (if we were, my kids would be in private).
But teaching in MCPS is hard. MCPS doesn’t seem to support teachers the way it should.
So, when my kids have had a good teacher, I do a $50 gift card at the end of the year with a nice note and sometimes a nice note emailed to the principal to go into that teacher’s file.
MCPS can suck it. $20 is ridiculous. When was that rule even implemented? With inflation and how much things cost now, I have even upped how much I give elementary aged kids gifts for birthdays. Used to do $20 or $25 and have upped that up to $30. Why wouldn’t I do the same for teachers?
Anonymous wrote:We give a bottle of nice wine.
Anonymous wrote:Do not ignore the $20 rule.
Anonymous wrote:We give a bottle of nice wine.
Anonymous wrote:I'm really thankful for my son's teacher this year. It's his first year in MCPS - he transitioned from private into public. If there are any teachers, please suggest a great gift a teacher would really appreciate. He will be writing her a heartfelt letter of appreciation to go along with the gift. For holiday gift, he gave a gift card and small plant so something different for end of year gift would be ideal.