Anonymous wrote:I felt like I was the only one who didn't get the teachers a gift. I felt like an ass yesterday.

Card with a $25 or $10 Starbucks GC, that says, "thanks a latte"

I just wrote something for my teacher

I give her mum flowers because it's the begining of Spring, some flowers are already sprouting from the ground. And I ask her when is her birthday!
And I give her a big bonus $100 check or cash or more. I appreciate all teachers, kids are hardwork

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I don’t expect gifts but always appreciate them!

Why did dig up and respond to a 12 year old post?

As a teacher, I don’t expect gifts but always appreciate them!

Anonymous wrote:We didnt. I specifically asked if there was a valentines celebration in class or for the class last week so we could prepare as necessary and was told they didnt do anything in this age group - 18 mo -2's....So we made valentines for the neighborhood kids and passed those out and went to school this morning empty handed. As soon as we got there I saw a mom giving one of the teachers a valentine present. Oops. I hate it when I ask all the right questions and STILL get it wrong!lol

That's hard, I'm sure! I had a parent ask and we said we weren't doing anything, really, (except the children made valentines for their parents) and in the last few years other parents hadn't done valentines so I thought it was safe to say they didn't do valentines for each other. THEN one parent did bring something in for all the children, but that parent hadn't asked! And others didn't ask and didn't bring.... we don't have a huge tradition of doing anything on Valentine's day, but some parents like to do these things, others don't, so it really isn't a big deal if some do and some don't give valentines. But it's hard to issue blanket statements unless we make a 'rule' and we seem to always have rules so we hate to invent even more 'rules', lol!

Anonymous wrote:We didnt. I specifically asked if there was a valentines celebration in class or for the class last week so we could prepare as necessary and was told they didnt do anything in this age group - 18 mo -2's....So we made valentines for the neighborhood kids and passed those out and went to school this morning empty handed. As soon as we got there I saw a mom giving one of the teachers a valentine present. Oops. I hate it when I ask all the right questions and STILL get it wrong!lol

That's hard, I'm sure! I had a parent ask and we said we weren't doing anything, really, (except the children made valentines for their parents) and in the last few years other parents hadn't done valentines so I thought it was safe to say they didn't do valentines for each other. THEN one parent did bring something in for all the children, but that parent hadn't asked! And others didn't ask and didn't bring.... we don't have a huge tradition of doing anything on Valentine's day, but some parents like to do these things, others don't, so it really isn't a big deal if some do and some don't give valentines. But it's hard to issue blanket statements unless we make a 'rule' and we seem to always have rules so we hate to invent even more 'rules', lol!

We did not do anything for the teachers in DD's preschool daycare. Just brought in valentines for the classmates.

My kid's class did a valentine's celebration and we all signed up to bring in stuff. I brought in extra cupcakes for the teachers, and for the cards for the kids, put in some extra candy which I figured the teachers would take. It is really hard to know what to do!!

I am a prek teacher. I got a valentine with a chocolate heart from a child, a small box of chocolates and a hallmark card from another child and a little bag with a little ceramic heart dish from another child. So thats only about 15% of my kids that gave me gifts. I was really touched, I will say. We work so hard for the kids that it is nice to be appreciated and thought of.