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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts) Sat Aug 13, 2016, 12:19 PM Aug 2016

Apparently it's a thing now to give a Teacher's gift on the first day of school?

My kid is going into kindergarten this year and we're supposed to (friends are head of PTA & very cliquey) give the teacher a gift on the first day now. I'm fine with small things at the end of the year, but this seems like a bribe to me.

Teach my kid better than the other kids, because I got you that $25 gift card to Total Wine.

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Apparently it's a thing now to give a Teacher's gift on the first day of school? (Original Post) NightWatcher Aug 2016 OP

I bet the teacher wants supplies they'd have to buy themselves... Phentex Aug 2016 #1

Yeah - I'd give them a $25 gift card to an office supply store csziggy Aug 2016 #3

No no no... you give the person who whistler162 Aug 2016 #2

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

1. I bet the teacher wants supplies they'd have to buy themselves...

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Sat Aug 13, 2016, 12:22 PM

Aug 2016

teachers spend a fortune on that kind of stuff. So I'm okay with a supply wish list. A personal gift for the teacher? That's going overboard at the start.

csziggy

(34,137 posts)

3. Yeah - I'd give them a $25 gift card to an office supply store

Reply to Phentex (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 13, 2016, 04:23 PM

Aug 2016

Or even to WalMart.

That way they can buy what is most needed in their class room.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

2. No no no... you give the person who

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Sat Aug 13, 2016, 12:23 PM

Aug 2016

keeps trhe computer equipment running a present. I will take gift certificates for anything.

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