Our school pools contributions and the organizers ask for $150-250 from each parent. The teachers ended up getting $500 each. I think this is good because otherwise the floaters get forgotten.

Anonymous wrote:Our kid is in their first year at a very small independent Montessori preschool with two teachers we love. What is an appropriate generous holiday gift for them? I would like to just give cash or a gift card but can’t decide how much and have never done this before.

When my kids were in preschool, the funds were pooled (all cash to the school was divided among all the teachers evenly - so a teacher in 3s classroom who had fewer kids than the teacher in the 4s classroom didn't receive less $$). We gave a month's tuition at Christmas for the teachers

Anonymous wrote:Our children's preschool collected from all parents and divided among the teachers, who do such important work and get paid so little (I was on the board of directors of the private preschool).

I'm sorry, but $50 us an insult. We always gave one month's tuition.

50 per teacher x 20 kids per class = $1000 per teacher. That’s 1-2 weeks pay. How in the works is this an insult?