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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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

I’m not in Maryland ding dong

Teachers in the DC area make well above the national average. And importantly, not all public school kids have parents who out-earn teachers. In fact I would bet less than half of all public school families have incomes that exceed what a dual-teacher family would earn. Many teachers are also married to high earners, so even where a parent out earns their child's teacher by 20k or something, their comparative HHIs put the teacher well ahead. Teachers where I live also receive benefits I don't, like assistance with home purchases and transportation stipends.

If you you want to quietly expect the wealthy families at your school to give you cash gifts out of if some grievance about your paycheck, whatever. But the expectation that all families do it, or the belief that families who don't give money are cheap or selfish, is the height if entitlement. You already get paid! Why am I giving you the money I earned as a "thank you." I don't owe you anything extra and there is zero reason that parents who make similar or less than teachers should transfer more money to teachers.

I make less than my kid's teachers. We are in DCPS and teachers are well compensated here compared to other places. Are they well compensated compared to doctors and lawyers? No, but neither am I (I'm a librarian, spouse is in public service similar to teaching). Yes, this area is expensive. Guess what, it's expensive for me, too.

I actually still gave teachers gift cards the first few years because it felt compulsory. But I stopped, because it makes no sense. I write heartfelt thank you notes to teachers. That is gratitude. I also pay my taxes, which I think entitled my kid to public school without an obligation to "tip" teachers.

If this offends you, me don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:Are we doing teacher appreciation week gifts now? I thought we saved gifts until the last week of school?

Don’t you know? Moms have to EARN Mother’s DAY by spending the entire week before doing Teacher Appreciation WEEK. Multiple handwritten cards, gift cards and more, including instructions on each teacher’s favorite color, flower, candy, restaurant, etc. Don’t forget to do all of this emotional labor and recognition of others for a full week, on top of everything else you have to do, so you can earn one day of rest.

Yeesh. Tell your husband to pick up a gift card on the way home from work and put down the cross.

I'm a room parent and I'm not doing any of that. I'm having my daughter make a card from construction paper and paper clipping a Starbucks gift card inside. Our teacher will appreciate both and my emotional labor meter is on NBD.

My mom was a teacher and I think people who think cash or gift cardsa are insulting are HILARIOUS. Cash, gift cards, personalized notes -- all appreciated.

Here's what a teacher doesn't particularly want:
1. Another coffee cup/water bottle
2. Candy
3. Baked goods from a kitchen they've never set foot inside

Even still, they will say thank you and give your kid a hug. But cash or a gift card is perfectly fine.

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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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

I’m not in Maryland ding dong

National teaching salary average is 74k.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

I’m not in Maryland ding dong

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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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

If it such a great gig, why aren’t more people teaching? Why have our student teachers gone from 12-15 per year to 1-2 per year?

Because of programs like iteach which don’t require unpaid student teaching?

Most of them quit after the first year. Some quit before then. Terrible programs.

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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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

If it such a great gig, why aren’t more people teaching? Why have our student teachers gone from 12-15 per year to 1-2 per year?

Because of programs like iteach which don’t require unpaid student teaching?

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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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

If it such a great gig, why aren’t more people teaching? Why have our student teachers gone from 12-15 per year to 1-2 per year?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How much do you make?

21k

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How much do you make?

21k

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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?

Yes

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

-a teacher

+1 teacher as well

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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

OK I'll make sure to give you a gift card instead of cash

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.

How much do you make?