No gifts.

Anonymous wrote:No gifts. In MCPS, there’s a $20/family/year gift limit. That doesn’t apply to class gifts. Any way, no gifts, just a chat with the teacher about how your kid is doing.

Last year it was $20/gift max per family but $100 annual limit. Did it change recently?

Anonymous wrote:Is a quick thank you email after just saying "thanks for the time; let us know if there's anything else we can do to help" thoughtful or weird and unnecessary?

Thoughtful and unnecessary. They know how to find you.

Nooooonoonoooo just no.

Is a quick thank you email after just saying "thanks for the time; let us know if there's anything else we can do to help" thoughtful or weird and unnecessary?

No gifts. In MCPS, there’s a $20/family/year gift limit. That doesn’t apply to class gifts. Any way, no gifts, just a chat with the teacher about how your kid is doing.

If you want to make it really awkward and inappropriate definitely give the teacher a gift during parent teacher conference.

No. No one does this. Save the small gifts for the holidays or teacher appreciation week or three end of the school year.

We no longer do parent teacher conferences at all. At our school, they are fifteen minute virtual slots. There is no time for questions and the teachers just go over standardized tests (so many) and report card data (four report cards a year -crazy), which they send home in the kid’s bag. After a bad experience in PreK where the teacher kept forgetting the kid’s name and even though an immersion program gave us zero information about kid’s progress in target language (of which we are native speakers), we were like this is a total waste of time and energy. Because kid tests well and is generally well-behaved - we get zero feedback. We are involved in other ways and check in with them informally at drop off. They know where to find us if there’s a problem.

I am a teacher and we are holding parent-teacher conferences next week. I intend to provide my student's parents with information about their progress this year, social issues, share each child's strengths and the academic skills that a child might need some extra help with. I hope that parents will ask questions about their child and share things with me about their child. It isn't meant to be a high pressure or high stakes conversation. It is meant to be a sharing of information - both ways. Don't stress about conference time. Just show up with a smile on your face and get ready to talk about your favorite subject, your child!

Please don’t do this. I had a [foreign] parent hand me a McDonald’s gift card during a conference and it made me uncomfortable. And was really strange.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are. Sick bird OP

OP explained she is not from here. She is just trying to understand how things work in the USA. No need for name calling. It’s a good thing she asked.

Yep, thank you. Good thing I asked It did feel weird to me, but when in Rome do as the Romans do... Thank you everyone for the responses.

Anonymous wrote:You are. Sick bird OP

OP explained she is not from here. She is just trying to understand how things work in the USA. No need for name calling. It’s a good thing she asked.

Please do not give a gift during a parent teacher conference. It could make the teacher uncomfortable. It’s a time to ask how your child is doing in class, if there are any areas of concern and areas that your kid needs to improve on. Teacher will also share your kid’s strengths and how they are doing at school.

A little bribe doesn't hurt.
Teacher could use a new BMW.