Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on how active the parents are in class. Plenty of donations from plenty of families? One is fine. Not nearly enough and you can afford two? Two.

Yes. When we were in a small private pre-school, I always brought 2. However, our current school is larger and fortunately the instructions now say one contribution per family instead of per child.

For teacher holiday contributions, I contribute the requested amount (once), but I give a separate gift card to the teachers from our family.

-Dad of twins

Fortunately? Wth- a small contribution that benefits your KIDS??

You should be contributing 2x the amount.

Fortunately refers to the fact that they provided details/instructions.

In this school, each student is given a list of supplies to purchase for the school. All supplies are shared between all classrooms so contributions by family are fine. After over 20 years, the director is familiar with the numbers and knows that supplies per family are sufficient even with multiple families having more than one child. Other families with two children in different classes also only make one set of donations. Each class is given a different supply list and the instructions specifically said "per family" and when I asked to confirm, the school director confirmed donations were per family.

I said for holiday donations for the teachers, we donated the requested amount, but I also give a separate additional gift to the teachers from our family that totals more than double the contribution. In my case, we have twins, so the same money is going to the teachers, just some is going in the group/room gift and some is going in a separate gift card.

I think its what you can afford and what you are willing to give. At our last party we had a range of extremely generous, just one thing like a 10 pack of plates to nothing or signed up and forgot to send it. As room mom, I ended up paying for a good chunk of the party as our school said we could not collect cash donations. Luckily we could afford to supplement the party but it kinda sucked that only a few parents really contributed. I think you should treat them as two separate kids. If they were in two different classes, you'd send in for each.

presuming this is public school & not preschool (which i think is different), i would say absolutely 1 contribution per family is fine. If they are struggling to get enough donations and you can do more though, then yes please do so. But i think that's a good rule of thumb for everyone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on how active the parents are in class. Plenty of donations from plenty of families? One is fine. Not nearly enough and you can afford two? Two.

Yes. When we were in a small private pre-school, I always brought 2. However, our current school is larger and fortunately the instructions now say one contribution per family instead of per child.

For teacher holiday contributions, I contribute the requested amount (once), but I give a separate gift card to the teachers from our family.

-Dad of twins

Fortunately? Wth- a small contribution that benefits your KIDS??

You should be contributing 2x the amount.

Because this should be common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:To those only giving one contribution when you have more than one kids. That is absurd. Would you want only one of your children to be a in a class drawing for something? You can't pick and choose when you have 2 kids.
Two kids in the class means 2 contributions to whatever it is. Sorry, but if the class has 20 students and things are divided by 20, yeah, you have 2/20s of the responsibility if you have 2 kids in that class.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

It's not hard for them to understand, they're just too cheap and lazy to contribute the fair amount.

Why are you guys getting so mad? Zero people have said they are unwilling to buy multiples of things.

Anonymous wrote:2 things. You have 2 kids in the class. Years ago, there was a Mom with triplets in my daughter’s PS class. She felt that she should only have to make a single contribution for the teacher’s holiday gift, which is absurd. I have 3 kids in 3 different grades. I buy 3 teacher gifts, send in conritbutions to 3 classrooms, etc. You don’t get to count your multiples as one when it’s convenient for you. Would you be OK with the teacher asking your kids to work together on an art project and split the work product? One shard report card? Of course not. They are 2 indivuals, who happen to be in the same classsroom.

Geeze, who peed in your cornflakes, lady?

Our coop preschool treats parents with two children as 1.5 parents for all obligations. Since we have mixed-age classrooms (2-5), there are quite a few of these families.

Anonymous wrote:I would think donations for gifts are per family.

Class party? Yes, one item per child. They both take part.

Why would class donations be one per family?
I would think the cost is divided by # of students in that class.

i appreciate some people asking to make sure they are doing the right thing, but why is this even a question?
How is it not clear that 2 or more kids mean 2 or more contributions/sign ups etc.
The ONLY exception is if it clearly states "one per family" or something like that OR if it is a gift your family is giving to a teacher or something.
Would you expect to only pay for 1 entrance fee if you go somewhere since you have twins? No. Stop being cheap.

I would think donations for gifts are per family.

Class party? Yes, one item per child. They both take part.

Anonymous wrote:To those only giving one contribution when you have more than one kids. That is absurd. Would you want only one of your children to be a in a class drawing for something? You can't pick and choose when you have 2 kids.
Two kids in the class means 2 contributions to whatever it is. Sorry, but if the class has 20 students and things are divided by 20, yeah, you have 2/20s of the responsibility if you have 2 kids in that class.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

It's not hard for them to understand, they're just too cheap and lazy to contribute the fair amount.

To those only giving one contribution when you have more than one kids. That is absurd. Would you want only one of your children to be a in a class drawing for something? You can't pick and choose when you have 2 kids.
Two kids in the class means 2 contributions to whatever it is. Sorry, but if the class has 20 students and things are divided by 20, yeah, you have 2/20s of the responsibility if you have 2 kids in that class.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

The reality is you have 2 kids and if they were in different grades you would be expected to sign up for both grades or classes.

Anonymous wrote:It depends on how active the parents are in class. Plenty of donations from plenty of families? One is fine. Not nearly enough and you can afford two? Two.

Yes. When we were in a small private pre-school, I always brought 2. However, our current school is larger and fortunately the instructions now say one contribution per family instead of per child.

For teacher holiday contributions, I contribute the requested amount (once), but I give a separate gift card to the teachers from our family.

-Dad of twins