Anonymous wrote:We give $50 to the kid's main teacher and $25 from each kid for the special teachers. At our school, the art, PE and music teacher are really good and very enthusiastic about their subjects. They teach all the grades which I think would be challenging. My kids love the special classes more than their main classes.

I don't why but room parents only do the parties. They don't organize collections for the teachers.

I also called the school last year to ask if there was a limit and whether what we were planning was OK. I was told that there wasn't a limit as long as it was within reason (thousands of dollars...which wouldn't happening from us anyway). We work at non-profits and don't sell anything to MOCO. The teachers we are giving gifts to don't influence purchase decisions anyway so it doesn't fall into their ethics/conflict of interest policy.

I could see there being an issue in high school where grades count if parents were giving large sums but seriously what on earth could an elementary school teacher actually be bribed to do? Extra graham cracker snack?