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11-02-2017 12:19 PM
Maybe a tray of Christmas cookies or some other treat for the teachers' lounge with a nice note from your child.
11-02-2017 12:24 PM
@alicedee: I like your idea for bakery or store-bought treats. Today no one will eat most homemade treats unless you are gifting family.
11-02-2017 12:30 PM
I went to school in a very poor area. Gifts to teachers were not permitted.
11-02-2017 12:32 PM
Alicedee: food is not a good idea. Too many allergies and health issues.
11-02-2017 01:25 PM - edited 11-02-2017 01:39 PM
@queendiva wrote:@alicedee: I like your idea for bakery or store-bought treats. Today no one will eat most homemade treats unless you are gifting family.
Yes @queendiva the school where I used to work was small, and we tended to know the families pretty well....so most homemade treats were ok and were consumed!! But sometimes a family would bring treats from a local pie shop or bakery for the lounge, which was always very much appreciated.
As far as food allergies....if it's a group gift, obviously someone might not be able to partake....an adult teacher would know what not to take a chance on. You would be taking a chance on one or two staff members not eating a cookie, vs. giving teachers a knick-knack or something that might get tossed or donated anyway. It's the thought that counts, as with any gift.
11-02-2017 01:53 PM
@Scraphappy A $5 Starbucks is inexpensive and a warm cup of joe/tea is always appreciated.
11-02-2017 06:50 PM
@scraphappy wrote:My daughter is in middle school now. She has 8 teachers (that's including PE and homeroom). If you have a middle school child, do you buy Christmas gifts for all of them? Is it expected? Is it the norm to do so? TIA!
@ScrapHappyWhen our sons were in middle school, I had a local gift shop make up a nice fruit basket for the teachers lounge. But I don't think you are expected to buy all those gifts.
11-04-2017 09:24 AM
My DD used to go to a small school for children with learning disabilities and ADHD. She had serveral teachers and support staff. The school speficially asked not to give the teachers gift but to donate something to the school in place of a gift if we wished to do something. Later in the school year we had a teacher appreciation day where all the families would donate to an appreciation luncheon.
11-11-2017 12:56 PM
I do give each teacher a gift at Christmas. My son has just one teacher and my daughter has mutiple. I try to find something that comes in a set so I can separate it into individual gifts and include a handwritten note.
11-12-2017 07:03 PM
I stopped giving teacher gifts when our daughter left elementary school. I would always listen to the teachers when they talked when they walked the kids out at the end of the day. One teacher was obsessed with Chocolate, so I might her a giant size Hershey Bar that Sam's Club had. Her 5th grade teacher was male, I was stumped as he was very quiet, then the lightbulb over my head went off. i went to Michael's, bought a small chalkboard and then found little school items and hot glued them around the chalkboard such as a pencil, eraser, apple, ruler, and at the time I was into stamping homemade card, so I made a set of cards with a school theme on the cover, to be used when he felt the need to send out a card. He wrote a very thoughtful thank you note using the cards I had made, and told us that he and his wife put the chalkboard in their kitchen and would leave notes for their family as they led such busy lives. Nothing too expensive, My sister is an elementary school teacher and one time I went over to their home and she had boxes of ornaments that the kids had given her over the years, she just had so many that she had to rotate them from year to year for them to even make it up on the tree as they only put one tree up.
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