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Anonymous wrote:The parents writing that cash gifts are demeaning are basically not engaged with their kids academic life as well as cheap AF.

How you give is also as important as what you give. And people who never contribute to the school or give tokens of appreciation to teachers should not be commenting about why they don't give. Because no one is interested in knowing their thought process.

If you don't give gifts to teachers anyways, no need to comment here and give your zero cents.

Not giving teachers cash and gift cards = not engaged with kids’ academic life? Are you stupid?

Your reading comprehension is severely lacking. Are you dumb and poor?

Anonymous wrote:Did someone really say giving cash or gift cards is demeaning??? No, their salaries are demeaning and I’m a teacher, so demean away.

Actually, I’ll pass.

Did someone really say giving cash or gift cards is demeaning??? No, their salaries are demeaning and I’m a teacher, so demean away.

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Anonymous wrote:If you don’t want to be bothered by your school’s PTA, come to my school. Not only do we not have a PTA, you won’t even know it’s TAW. But we will be busy making multiple gifts for moms for Mother’s Day. We are bitter people like some DCUMs clearly are.

Can you not see the difference? Kids love their mothers and this is fun for them and you can work learning into it: handwriting, fine motor skills, art. It’s actually for the kids, they enjoy making these and gifting these to their mothers. Pretty sure you don’t want 30 kids crafts for TAW. I don’t want to participate in a weeks worth of hoopla for teachers plus all the cost for said hoopla plus gift cards. It’s ridiculous and has nothing to do with kids showing their appreciation to their teacher. My kids enjoy writing their teacher a nice note about what they’ve enjoyed in class and what they like about their teacher. That’s should be what teacher appreciation is about. Not a bunch a snacks, gift cards, gift baskets, etc.

NP. I'm a mom and not a teacher. I made my kids all write cards to their teachers and a picture (my youngest two are pre-K and 1st). I also thought as they did it that it was helping their handwriting, fine motor skills and helping to recognize/thank others.

I'm not going to give snacks or their favorite things or make a little basket. I guess it's because I don't like things like that myself and it seems like extra work for women.

I will have my kids do things for their teachers though and I will slip in cash in appreciation. I'm not bitter at all about teacher appreciation week, nor about mother's day. I like both actually.

The slipping in cash is demeaning. They aren’t your housekeeper or babysitter.

I think gift cards are more demeaning. Who are you to tell them where to shop? I do NOT think they're my babysitter. I don't think there's a comparison because I don't give gifts to many other persons.

Please stfu

I've never had a teacher refuse a gift of cash or gift card. I guess they can donate it if they desired.

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Anonymous wrote:The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

They are degreed professionals. It isn’t customary to give gift cards or cash to a degreed professionals as a thank you, regardless of what you think about their salary.

What nonsense.

The home care nurse who cared for my mother in her last months was a degrees professional. My father gave her a generous cash gift when my mother passed.

Gifts of cash (or cash value) are for people who go above and beyond and make a connection with our loved ones. Not all teachers deserve money but that doesn’t mean withhold it from those who do.

Nurses are not supposed to accept gifts or cash at all from patients. Most companies/hosptials have policies against this.

And yet she accepted it with gratitude.

Anonymous wrote:I’d love cash. It will help me pay for gas to get to school this week.

-a teacher

Yep, as a teacher, cash is king

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Anonymous wrote:The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

They are degreed professionals. It isn’t customary to give gift cards or cash to a degreed professionals as a thank you, regardless of what you think about their salary.

Np. We're going to have to agree to disagree. I actually think it's degrading to hand them mugs and candles as "gifts". No one wants that regifted trash. Cash and gift cards are more thoughtful in my mind.

Agree. Which is why just a note is best.

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Anonymous wrote:The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

They are degreed professionals. It isn’t customary to give gift cards or cash to a degreed professionals as a thank you, regardless of what you think about their salary.

Np. We're going to have to agree to disagree. I actually think it's degrading to hand them mugs and candles as "gifts". No one wants that regifted trash. Cash and gift cards are more thoughtful in my mind.

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Anonymous wrote:The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

They are degreed professionals. It isn’t customary to give gift cards or cash to a degreed professionals as a thank you, regardless of what you think about their salary.

What nonsense.

The home care nurse who cared for my mother in her last months was a degrees professional. My father gave her a generous cash gift when my mother passed.

Gifts of cash (or cash value) are for people who go above and beyond and make a connection with our loved ones. Not all teachers deserve money but that doesn’t mean withhold it from those who do.

Nurses are not supposed to accept gifts or cash at all from patients. Most companies/hosptials have policies against this.

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Anonymous wrote:The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

They are degreed professionals. It isn’t customary to give gift cards or cash to a degreed professionals as a thank you, regardless of what you think about their salary.

What nonsense.

The home care nurse who cared for my mother in her last months was a degrees professional. My father gave her a generous cash gift when my mother passed.

Gifts of cash (or cash value) are for people who go above and beyond and make a connection with our loved ones. Not all teachers deserve money but that doesn’t mean withhold it from those who do.

Anonymous wrote:The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

They are degreed professionals. It isn’t customary to give gift cards or cash to a degreed professionals as a thank you, regardless of what you think about their salary.

The MCPS cap is $25 I think. I don't see why it's tacky. It's a token of appreciation with the heartfelt card.

We do this for the holidays as well. I'm sure getting a bunch of the small $ amounts adds up to something nice.

I taught at a private school and you’d be amazed how thankless the job is. I was in my 20s making 25K and school tuition was $40K. The demanding mother of a slacker kid (required monthly team meetings, teacher provided notes, and assigned note taker, and 1-2/weekly email updates from me). I often skipped lunch to help him when he actually didn’t want to do the work. Mom got me a $30 candle from HomeGoods (I’m allergic). So many of my other students made me cards and notes but it was a little wild how few parent acknowledgements I received, even just a simple thank you for the year.

I do remember one parent sent me a pretty detailed thank you and copied my division head, which was lovely. I think that’s the best, besides getting thank yous from students - a cc’d email to superiors! As a parent now, I completely understand how busy and crazy the end of year gets. But if you have a few minutes in the evening, shoot an email off to your favorite teacher and copy the principal.

Anonymous wrote:The parents writing that cash gifts are demeaning are basically not engaged with their kids academic life as well as cheap AF.

How you give is also as important as what you give. And people who never contribute to the school or give tokens of appreciation to teachers should not be commenting about why they don't give. Because no one is interested in knowing their thought process.

If you don't give gifts to teachers anyways, no need to comment here and give your zero cents.

Not giving teachers cash and gift cards = not engaged with kids’ academic life? Are you stupid?