teacher gift question

billiburrows

Our child is in Kindergarten so this is our first time doing teacher gifts. I got an email from a parent in the class asking that everyone give her money and she will buy a gift card for the teacher.  that really wasn't what i originally had in mind.... i had been starting to think of christmas ideas that we would give her...

but- maybe the teacher would like that better? 1 large gift card instead of 20 little ones? 

just seemed kinda of odd to me that she would assume everyone wants to do that. or perhaps this is just typical/how teacher gifts are done at school now?

Meghan&Rich

Our room parent did that for the teacher last year.  I participated, but it was optional and I am pretty sure there were parents who did their own thing or nothing at all.  I always do gift cards anyway, so I went with the group gift since the room parent knew what the teacher's interests were (she did a gift basket with a few different gift cards and actual gifts.)

I would think that one gift would be more useful than multiple smaller gifts (especially in the days of Pinterest gifts, there's only so many crayon wreaths a teacher needs.  lol!)

smynings_bride

DD is in Kindergarten and we received the same note and I thought the same thing.  I don't know how much to give.  Even though they said it's optional I feel obligated to give rather than give to the teacher separately.  The weird part is that it came in an envelope in the folder we used to exchange papers with the teacher and that's how we return it but it goes to the room parents.

egpitt22

Ditto Meghan, ours has been like that every year and it's totally optional.  Last year, the email went out late so I had already done something on my own by then and didn't chip in on the gift.  I think it's totally up to you if you'd rather do something you had in mind.  I like to chip in because it's one less thing for me to have to worry about!