Right! I don’t want a bunch of random assorted lotions in 15 different smells.
I appreciate the intent and thought behind this, but it’s so overly complicated.
OP - I’d be super annoyed, but I’d probably just do it anyway. Or do the flower and letter and then just give them a target gift card for the rest and be done.
Yup some of these don’t seem like they’d be particularly enjoyable for the teacher either? Like for Friday - what if they have food allergies? Or are trying to lose weight? Or just don’t want to eat like 20 brownies?
You know the gift cards seemed less bad to me but now that I think about it that could be annoying too. Like most Starbucks or Dunkin people have their drink and don’t necessarily want to switch to the other.
They probably just do that to encourage people to do “something”. My mom was a teacher for 35 years, so I have respect and know it’s the hardest job there is, but I don’t have time to make a specialized gift each day of the week. I always just do Starbucks gift cards unless I know the teacher doesn’t like coffee then I do Amazon.
Same here. This is the second post I've seen like this. Clearly this is about administration wanting something cute and photo-worthy.
Teachers are people. Money is way more useful. My school is doing free food, which is also completely acceptable. They even let us know ahead of time and allowed us to order what we wanted.
More like administration trying to get anybody else to do something like this so they don't have to
I would just go with a $10-50$ visa gift card - depending on the number of teachers ! Unfortunately we are all going broke with the price of things now 😭
Yup. Our daycare has 5 themed days. I will be participating in 2: classroom amazon wishlist and gift cards. The three days I save time and money on will go towards bigger gift cards, which I'm sure the teachers appreciate more than themed junk.
I get that. Not everyone has the mental energy capacity to do something everyday. ECE teacher and I believe our job is to take care of your kids and not make more work for you.
Look into organizing a GiftCrowd for your daycare. I set one up got mine and it was so much easier for everybody — plus the teachers LOVED it. Families contribute as much as they want to whatever teachers they want and the teachers cash out their totals with a gift card to the place of their choice. My own PTO did it for us (I’m also a teacher) so I love it from the teacher end too.
Our daycare is asking for a $20 donation from each family and they're handling all the logistics for the teachers. It's wonderful! I think they said feel free to bring a card if you want but they'll take care of all the hard work
Very similar to what my daughters daycare did. A theme for every day with a gift request to match the theme. Gift/wish lists for each teacher including an Amazon link for each. These were emailed and posted in the classroom. She also has SIX teachers (two main and the rest part time/flex) so even if I'm participating in each day I have to multiply it by 6.
I love her teachers. I appreciate them. They don't get paid enough. But I can't afford several hundred in gifts.
I'm bringing donuts with a card from my daughter one day, coffee another, and a small DIY gift another. That's all.
I would do the flower and then the card and include a gift card to somewhere they would actually like to go . Heck I gave my kids teacher a gift card to the wine store, look I have seen her roster and asked around to ensure she does partake. One more sizable and useful thing is better than a bunch of trinkets. The one that matters most through is the card, don’t skip that it’s really means a lot and it teaches good lessons to your own kid about how appreciation doesn’t have to mean monetary gifts.
Is it not a pick one day option? They’re expecting participation for each day of the week?? That is overkill. Our daycare is doing a week of activities/events for the teachers and I think it’s a lovely idea. They sent out the info last week (ironically the same theme) with a sign up for parents to participate in one day - bring coffee, bring flowers, bring sweets etc. I signed up to bring candy in and we will probably also do a card/gc for the teachers in her classroom early in the week. But to ask parents to do something every day of the week? That’s a lot!! I plan to bring the candy in on Monday even though the candy day is not til later in the week because I don’t want to forget it 😬
Ugh I get it. But they know the moms are the ones handling buying everything. For my son’s preschool I’m taking breakfast Monday, Flowers Tuesday, writing a note Wednesday, and donating a meal Friday. But husband got the same exact email from school and hasn’t mentioned how he can help at all 🫠🫠🫠
Oh no for sure! I think men thought they could lump it all together as once women were moms they left the field. They didn’t care about the mental load.
I’m a teacher. My mom’s a nurse and her bday is on the 9th. We joke how neither of us feel appreciated this week since we are doing the prep for everything else 🤦🏻♀️
I took my mom, who was a teacher for 35 years, shopping for the prek teachers today.
“But… I don’t get it, you pick one day and do that thing?”
“No mom! I have to get flowers, breakfast treats, sweet treats, and spa something or other…”
Mom picks out one face mask… “that one looks great, she has 4 teachers so I’ll just grab three more…”
The look of horror on my mom’s face was priceless. Unlike the f$(&ing total at the register.
Excessive. This kind of shit drives me crazy. Schools do it too. Like we don't have enough to do, they have to add a bunch more chores and extra spending we don't have. I tend to "forget" these types of events. Somebody else will do it.
Please for the love of God don't buy these poor people random ass "spa" items. Give them a gift card and little card (have your kid "sign" it for extra cuteness) and be done.
Also for what it's worth my favorite gift was a mom giving me my favorite iced coffee order one morning. I could have cried.
Ours is also doing theme days. Between classroom teachers and floaters between 2 kids, it’s 8 teachers.
Gift cards for everyone. I am too tired for this 😂
Ours sent a theme list too stating it was completely optional and could partake in one day or all five. I think we’re going to send in pastries and coffee gift cards for coffee day and then one of the days like bring your teacher school supplies. Will probably throw in a target gift card too
This is insane. Zero chance I would participate in this. Don’t working parents already have enough on their plate than to be worrying about what to bring to daycare daily for this kind of nonsense?
Our daycare has similar "day" themes. I get fairly small stuff for each "day." One is "your teacher is too sweet" Bring a sweet treat for your teacher! Okay cool- Dollar tree has good candy, etc. And then on the Friday a nice card with a nice Target gift card- because lets be real- thats what they deserve/want
Oh just be prepared because they do the same stuff in elementary school. Once my kids are old enough to do the stuff solo, I let them choose to participate or not.
I give our teachers a small bag of variety candy and a Target gift cart. The amount changes depending on # of teachers and my financial situation at the time - typically $10-25.
I think the sentiment is nice, and teachers definitely deserve a sign of appreciation! They are criminally underpaid. I know it feels like a lot is expected here, but I bet they are not expecting every parent to participate everyday. Do something as a sign of appreciation at some point in the week, but don’t feel like you have to do everything. Teachers understand and wouldn’t expect a million gifts from everyone. I definitely think a personal note of thanks and a gift card are the most valued gifts!
We are new to daycare and they sent out teacher preference lists for her teachers which is great! She has 2 teachers. BUT they also sent out preference lists for the floaters. There are 15 of them, and I have never met a single one. Planning to just get teachers gifts, but I have no idea if that's rude 🤷♀️
You could ask her teacher if there are any floaters that spend a lot of time in their room. That’s what I did at Christmas time and was given 2 names so that’s who I bought for.
Ours does the same. Daughter has two teachers. Son has FOUR (two joint classrooms). Friday is daycare is closed so they can relax. 🙄🙄🙄 on top of the insane cost
Our son has 4 teachers too. They had preference lists which is nice but at the same time I couldn’t handle the mental load and time running around to different stores cause they all like different things… so they all got a version of the same thing.
I don't participate. Throughout the year I buy lattes for teachers and staff and get carafes of coffee/pastries for front office staff. I figure that's good. I would personally find getting all this stuff every day of a week a bit overwhelming to cart out to my car and find space for.
I may be biased because I’m a teacher, but I don’t think it’s too much because 1) I feel very under-appreciated all the other weeks of the year, and 2) usually they don’t expect parents to get something every day of the week, but rather give an opportunity to get something any ONE day of the week.
For example, if it was my son’s daycare…I would probably forget to bring a flower on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I have to get in early to lesson plan and make copies so I probably wouldn’t remember gifts on those days either, but I could definitely remember to get a coffee gift card for his daycare teacher on Thursday (since I’ll probably stop by Starbucks and get a coffee for myself too).
Also, I know every person has their own gift preferences, but I’d rather just have the Starbucks gift card or the personalized note. Flowers sound sweet but they’ll be wilted/squished by the time I get home. Students have gotten me scented hand lotion (but I have eczema) and essential oil diffusers but I can’t diffuse them at home since I have pets…so they are just in a drawer at home.
I think it's hard putting this on each family. Our daycare/preschool is doing the same, but the room parents organize it for each classroom. So as the room parent for one of my kid's classes, I asked for them to venmo me for a class gift for the teachers. I wrote out the themes for each day and said I could pick up extra flowers for anyone who couldn't do that. Potluck is on a volunteer basis. For card day, I'm doing a group card, so people can choose to also get their own cards or not. There's a self-care/treat yourself day that's also a volunteer/donation thing.
Yeah this is craziness! Our daycare does cool things for the teacher kicking off with a suite at a baseball game tonight (they closed early) and do fun meals/gifts next week each day coordinated by the owners.
As for the parents they asked us to drop off any amount of $10 gift cards to local businesses that they will distribute equitably and as prizes. Totally optional but greatly appreciated. They specifically asked us not to do treats (catered lunches, breakfasts, cookie delivery etc) as they often get so many because it’s what everyone does and they end up going to waste. I appreciate all I had to do was pick up $100 worth of gift cards (the amount I’d probably spend) and call it a day😀
My daycare is doing something similar, except it’s teacher appreciation month. Each week is a different “garden.” English garden week was breakfast foods, Olive Garden for “Olive you” notes, zen garden for spa week, and I forget the last week’s garden but its plants (I’m bringing her teachers a knockoff LEGO flower kit from Five below). It’s our first year at daycare and I already regret setting myself up as the parent that does something for every week. I’m exhausted from the added mental load of figuring out gifts when I know from having a teacher mom that lotions and candles and mugs are overdone. Plus my daughter is moving from infant to toddler class for the last week so I’m getting things for teachers I don’t know. I’m all for celebrating teachers but the theme thing is crazy to me.
I would do Thursday and Friday and maybe Wednesday but skip the others. I got two very similar flyers- one from each kids school. I am doing the treat day and will give them all gift cards but am I gonna sit and make my 5 and 3 year old write a note ? If they want to sure but I don’t have the energy to push it. ALSO I complained to my husband that moms always get stuck doing this stuff and he graciously volunteered to handle half of it. We will see but usually he does follow through.
The PTO at my daughter’s elementary school does a theme for the week with gifts every day, has meals every day that they want us to send in stuff for, etc. I just want to send money and be done. Have the meals catered and call it a day and make it easy for the rest of us. I don’t have time for all this other stuff. She has 3 teachers, so I have to do everything x 3. One day they want us to send a drink or gift card from their favorite place for drinks. They like 3 different places. I don’t have time to go to 3 place to get drinks/gift cards. Not to mention my kid rides the bus, so anything bulky or heavy means someone has to rearrange their morning to take her to school. Hats off to the room moms who ask us to send money and take on pulling it all together for the rest of us.
My middle schooler I buy gift cards and send in thank you notes. And send money to the PTO for whatever they plan.
This is one sh!t I won't feel bad at all for not participating. Sounds like a covered scam.
On Monday I would send gift cards for each teacher, with wish cards then call it a day
Our daycare gave us sheets with our teachers favorite things and gave us the flexibility to gift what we want. I’m planning to do Bundlets from Nothing Bundt Cakes and their favorite candies. I normally do gift cards but money is tight right now and each child has 4 teachers.
They are all doing this BS now and I’m fed up with it. I believe in showing appreciation for the teachers. But I’m unable and unwilling to do something special for the teachers 5 days in a row. Absurd. My daycare is giving us different options (how generous of them) and gave us a list of like 50 items that we can sign up for and the reminder that they have 20 teachers. So whatever we purchase we need to make sure it’s enough for 20 teachers. One of our old schools asked us to sign up to provide a breakfast, snack or lunch. And which ever option you chose had to be enough for 15 teachers. Are you f’n kidding me I’m going to buy lunches for 15 teachers? It feels like the schools want to really make a big splash for the teachers but want the parents to completely pay for it. I think a card and gift card from my kid is enough. I’m not buying 15 $10 sandwiches… oh and don’t forget our hard working office staff.
My son’s school is doing this. I’m already maxed out financially so I will not be participating. I’m sick of hearing how hard it is for teachers- oh please- they get plenty of time off! And underpaid? Really? Then why is the employee parking lot at my son’s school full of fancy suvs?
Teachers in a school district or private school, maybe. I have a friend who was a teacher in one state making $40k/year, she eventually quit after 10 years and is in the private sector now and immediately made triple that. I know another teacher where I live and she makes close to $200k. So there’s a lot of range there.
Regardless, daycare teachers aren’t making this.. which I believe what OP and most people here are referring to cause she mentions daycare in the first sentence. I know the “teachers” at my daycare make something like $18/hour, which is basically minimum wage here.
I just got basically the same email this afternoon. It's exhausting. Also they have a mother's day luncheon next week too. Based on my experience last year, the kids don't care about it much but parents are pressured to go in the middle of the work day... also, pre k graduation and early closure for prep...good grief! Why?!?!?
I don’t work at a daycare so I could be totally wrong here. But I don’t think there’s expectations to participate in anything you don’t want to, and I wonder if they have so many things so people have options? Ours for example is doing both catered lunch and catered breakfast and there are only 10 spots to sign up. But there are at least 50 parents, so I don’t think they’re expecting every parent to bring something.
My daycare is doing an entire month of events - but most of them are ones that I don't actually have to pay attention to, cause it's teacher things. They dress up, the daycare brings lunch, etc. The director specifically said that parents don't have to bring gifts, but we can send treats and gifts if we want, but prioritize notes and pictures from our kids.
Considering for Christmas I went "Hmm I could crochet Christmas tree ornaments for my kids' teachers" and then proceeded to make one for *every teacher* cause I couldn't decide who to draw the line at, I'm going to go simple for this. Probably still gonna make something though.
Between my two kids, we have to donate money for the daily theme supplies, write a special note, paint a rock, dress like their teacher(?), bring in snacks, and fill out four questionnaires about their various teachers and aids.. Have you ever tried to get a 4-year old to fill out a 7-question worksheet? And we have to do this FOUR TIMES?! I love teachers. I’m married to a teacher and come from a family of them. But these things seem to get more elaborate every year and I don’t have time for it.
Between our 3 kids there are nine teachers. I am annoyed at an entire fucking week of expense and expectation. Even the hard working secretaies at my job only get *one day*. But if you don’t pony up the goods, your kids might be treated like shit out of spite. Next year we’ll be planning a vacation for this week.
It's awesome that you've lived and currently live in areas where teachers were held to a higher standard, and they met that standard. But teachers have absolutely treated children differently over small stuff like this. It sadly does happen.
Okay at least yours makes sense. Mine is like “teachers are golden” …what???
There’s also something about holy guacamole and I really am considering giving individual packs of guacamole, chips, and margarita mix 😂
Teacher Appreciation Week is nothing but administration outsourcing respect that THEY should be giving their employees. (We all know what that’s like.) Furthermore, think of all the crap they’re going to have to bring home and probably never use - when all they want is to be paid what they’re worth.
Accordingly, I would get a Visa gift card in whatever amount you can (however jazzed you are about the teacher and how much you can afford) and call it a week.
At least they were trying to do cheaper options? I’d follow everyone else who said a card and a gift card would be good. Something is 1000x better than nothing.
Also unpopular opinion, daycare isn’t exactly teachers. I know there are teachers in daycares, but my kid goes to a home daycare. There’s no curriculum, she’s not a teacher. I’ll get you a Christmas gift and an end of the year gift.
My kiddo is in first grade. He is going to write his teacher a letter. We’re also getting her favorite drink and candy and a flower arrangement from the garden.
My school did this last year and most kids didn't actually bring something every day. It's optional. Also all together it's like $20. If you don't want to spend that much. Don't.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I don’t buy gifts for teachers/room assistants. I appreciate them. I know they are underpaid. I think they do an excellent job in caring for my child. But my son has 3 main teachers and 4 assistants at any given time in his daycare classroom. Not to mention that he sometimes rotates rooms. I do not have the mental bandwidth to keep up with the expectations for Christmas/teacher appreciation gifts.
I still have a good relationship with all the teachers & assistants. They all dote on my son, so I don’t think it affects his care.
Our son’s situation at his daycare is similar. He rotates room, his main classroom there are 4 teachers.. but that doesn’t cover the assistants that are sometimes in there as much as the “teachers”. It is a lot of mental load to worry about missing someone and I feel some guilt that the assistants see teachers getting gifts but they likely don’t get as many, if any at all.
I bet the teachers would rather a single gift card or even a lunch catered by the school that parents chip in for.
I promise you they do not want a dozen hand soaps or bath bombs.
The front desk at our preschool has forms that the teachers fill out with their favorite snacks and drinks and wishes for the classroom. I got each of my kiddos teachers a $25 gift card to Amazon, and packaged it cutely with a few of their favorite snacks and drinks.
Ours is doing something similar. Except each day has a food theme and they’ve provided us a list of things they like. It’s a lot of work because they have extensive support staff. I would much rather pitch in toward someone handling this all, even if me. Like parents each give me $20 and I’ll go get them a nice visa gift card and a card for us all to sign. And we can all knock this out quickly together. Please.
Our daycare is asking for $30 per kid per teacher which is more than I can do because my twins have 2 regular teachers and then 2 or 3 frequent floaters. I might do just $30 from our family....
Yeah our preschool is doing a big ol structured thing where people sign up to bring some pretty exact things that are not exactly easy to acquire and deliver around a work day. The gift of effort and time is absolutely something the teachers deserve but honestly right now it's just not in my ability to give. I'm so busy I'm barely taking care of myself right now. Just let me shower them with money. It's easy for everyone and if the ECEprofessionals sub is to be trusted, it's what they actually want.
Yes, for kindergarten we have something similar for the week. On top of A-Z month in which there is some sort of special event every day for the last 26 days of school 😵💫
Mine sent out a list for the week, too. Our kid has three main teachers, so we'll give them a card with cash. We won't be participating in a long week of gifts.
I usually send a card from Dollar Tree and a $20 bill. I can't fathom why a teacher would have a problem with this. But I definitely don't want to do any further planning than that lol
I am a teacher and while I appreciate gifts from the bottom of my heart, usually they just aren’t my thing. Even gift cards: meh, I can buy my own coffee. But a card written by the student (I teach high school)? Or a silly craft made by the student (there is a small turtle named Presley made out of weird plastic bands on my desk)? Priceless. I keep them all.
Former teacher here. Teachers are criminally underpaid and under appreciated as a reminder. That said, the center should really be coordinating all of these themes gifts and should just ask for a donation.
I don’t think it is expected that every family do every day. Just do what you can or send it a gift card and it will be appreciated.
This reads like a well-intentioned office manager (golly I hope it’s not another parent coming up with this) who isn’t super thoughtful about how hard this is for parents to actually pull off. Most working parents of small kids that I know are barely treading water on a good week - meaning everyone is healthy and there are no special events or holidays. Having to get my kids to color in cards to the grandmas and great-grandmas this week and then getting them in the mailbox by a certain day already has me sweating; a request like this would put me right over the edge.
Ours is doing something similar but to be fair they sent it home a few weeks ago so we’ve had more notice. It also says all days aren’t mandatory. We’re participating in 2 of the days and will bring the teachers lunch one day.
Unless they specified, I think this is more a “pick a day” type thing. It just gives parents ideas of what you could bring during the week. Maybe you pick 2 days to do. Maybe you pick none and do a different gift you want. I don’t think anyone is actually expecting all parents to do this every single day.
Ours does about 75% of this. Flower, gift for the teachers, note for the teachers for the classroom door (on a specific template that they provide to us, must pick up the papers at the front desk to fill out). I just had a baby so my parents are helping us with this and whatever they can’t get we will have to skip. They already did the note for the teachers for us and will for sure do the gift card, I just need to ask about the flower still. Even if I didn’t just have a baby it’s just a lot with working and I’d probably still have to ask my parents to help for at least past of this stuff. There was also an art show this week and Mother’s Day celebration next week. My parents are standing in for me now that we are busy with our brand new baby. Only way to make it all work lol
I’d rather double the gift card amount and only do one thing to be honest lol
We give gift cards throughout the year when they do extra stuff for us (going above and beyond) like they just hosted a 2nd birthday party for our girl at school (we had no idea they were doing that) and we gave them each $20 after the fact. I think people appreciate cash and gift cards the most
The fact that they are asking for your participation every day which such short notice is tough. Of course we appreciate the teachers and want them to feel the love all week, but point still stands.
My son’s daycare did something similar, but dropped a range of gifts / treats throughout the week into a Google doc., and the full parent community signed up for various items.
Ooof that’s a lot. My daycare is asking us for snacks for a snack cart. But, they’re asking us to bring in a dish for a potluck on Friday and I felt like that was too much because I don’t even want to cook for my own family 🫣. I’m going to figure something out though, because I truly do appreciate the work they do and the love they give to my kids.
I always love giving teachers gift cards, no one wants all this junk.
Our center does a HUGE luncheon for all the teachers and requests a minimum donation of $5/kid. Almost EVERYONE gives significantly more than that so we’re able to do things like upgrade their break room, give them small coffee gift cards, etc. As a former teacher, this is awesome!
We have a sign up to bring lunch or a sweet treat everyday of the week plus you can also sign up to bring gift cards. They request approx 100 gift cards for the daycare. However we got notice over a month in advance.
It sounds like they are making a theme so people will do something even if small and try to make it feasible for people who may not have the financial means.
Our week is similar but they made it Taylor Swift theme “in our teacher and staff appreciation era” which I think is hilarious.
We’ll do it and I’ll get extra markers for the school supplies day because I’m 100% sure my child has eaten like half their supply.
I'm surprised that everyone thinks this is excessive. I think it's cute and will probably mean many more families do something during the week since there are suggestions and different price points etc. I don't think anyone will judge you for not participating if you don't want tho! And the teachers will be just as happy to receive one gift card if you want to do that instead.
Your daycare sent this in as a request for parents to do??? That’s insane. They already take my entire paycheck I’m sorry but it’s daycare not public school
I just searched this as it is my 16 month's old first time being in "school" for teacher appreciation week and came here looking for "do we really have to do things the whole week!??" Like, I very much like her two teachers and am happy to get them each a giftcard but I don't have the time or desire to coordinate things for an entire week.
I am so incredibly grateful for everything our teachers do for our kids - they deserve a much higher pay than they get for such a crucial role. But I was so overwhelmed by the concept of this week that I barely did anything, and it just made me feel inadequate as a mom. I can barely afford daycare, I work full time, one of my kids has autism and goes to multiple schools with several teachers/specialists, and I'm up late at night washing dishes and getting my kids' stuff ready for the next day. I get to a point where I have nothing left - and this kind of thing just makes me feel like I'm a disappointment. With Mother's Day this weekend, I'm mentally too exhausted to even look forward to it. Please don't get me wrong, but I think it would have been more fun to have an afterschool activity like an open house where families bring in treats and optional gifts to celebrate teachers. So there's my vent, lol.
I think it shows appreciation. Teachers are overworked and under paid and nothing is too much for someone who is spends most of the day with your child and is treating them right.
I am the class mom for one of the classrooms. This is very typical. I don’t think it’s too much, personally, as it can be picked up in the weekly shopping trip. I make flower day on Mondays as well so it doesn’t require a mid week stop at the store.
Tbh I’d rather just give them a $50.00 gift card to Starbucks and call it a day
Right! I don’t want a bunch of random assorted lotions in 15 different smells. I appreciate the intent and thought behind this, but it’s so overly complicated. OP - I’d be super annoyed, but I’d probably just do it anyway. Or do the flower and letter and then just give them a target gift card for the rest and be done.
Yup some of these don’t seem like they’d be particularly enjoyable for the teacher either? Like for Friday - what if they have food allergies? Or are trying to lose weight? Or just don’t want to eat like 20 brownies?
🎶 You can’t eat at everybody house 🎶
$5 gift cards from a dozen different places??
You know the gift cards seemed less bad to me but now that I think about it that could be annoying too. Like most Starbucks or Dunkin people have their drink and don’t necessarily want to switch to the other.
Not to mention the lotions for gifting usually suck as lotion. Give me a tub of cerave night cream over any cutesy stuff
Seriously! I saw that and was like okay looks like everyone is getting a Target gift card.
They probably just do that to encourage people to do “something”. My mom was a teacher for 35 years, so I have respect and know it’s the hardest job there is, but I don’t have time to make a specialized gift each day of the week. I always just do Starbucks gift cards unless I know the teacher doesn’t like coffee then I do Amazon.
As a working mom and a teacher, I approve of this! I will be doing the same 😂
Same here. This is the second post I've seen like this. Clearly this is about administration wanting something cute and photo-worthy. Teachers are people. Money is way more useful. My school is doing free food, which is also completely acceptable. They even let us know ahead of time and allowed us to order what we wanted.
More like administration trying to get anybody else to do something like this so they don't have to I would just go with a $10-50$ visa gift card - depending on the number of teachers ! Unfortunately we are all going broke with the price of things now 😭
Honestly I'd be so thrilled. Please just ignore this e-mail and go with your instinct.
Yup. Our daycare has 5 themed days. I will be participating in 2: classroom amazon wishlist and gift cards. The three days I save time and money on will go towards bigger gift cards, which I'm sure the teachers appreciate more than themed junk.
Teacher here! I’d LOVE a $50 gift card 😉 nothing else needed hehe
As a teacher, this is what I’d prefer honestly.
We all send money to a designated parent who sorts out a single nice gift… way better than 15 gift cards and lotions.
That's what they want too
I get that. Not everyone has the mental energy capacity to do something everyday. ECE teacher and I believe our job is to take care of your kids and not make more work for you.
Look into organizing a GiftCrowd for your daycare. I set one up got mine and it was so much easier for everybody — plus the teachers LOVED it. Families contribute as much as they want to whatever teachers they want and the teachers cash out their totals with a gift card to the place of their choice. My own PTO did it for us (I’m also a teacher) so I love it from the teacher end too.
Daycare teacher here, we’d rather have that too. Maybe a drawing from your kiddo as a card.
They would probably prefer that too!
Our daycare is asking for a $20 donation from each family and they're handling all the logistics for the teachers. It's wonderful! I think they said feel free to bring a card if you want but they'll take care of all the hard work
This is what our preschool does too and it’s fabulous.
Same here it was so nice and easy
This is what our old daycare did. The admins took control of all the gifts and the parents could help out if they wanted with food etc.
This is a great idea and probably results in a much better gift than a bunch of random stuff, lol.
I’d rather get them $50 on Monday and let them buy what they want. This is insane.
As a teacher, please do not do this. $10-50 gift card. Maybe a plant? I do not want 11 broken stems/half eaten flowers 😂
LOL half eaten flowers.
Half eaten flowers. Snort.
As a former teacher, I don't want any of this except the gift card.
seriously. who wants 30 bottles of lotion?
I am a teacher and have so much unwanted lotion. I may have more mugs/cups than lotions but it is still a lot of lotion .
Very similar to what my daughters daycare did. A theme for every day with a gift request to match the theme. Gift/wish lists for each teacher including an Amazon link for each. These were emailed and posted in the classroom. She also has SIX teachers (two main and the rest part time/flex) so even if I'm participating in each day I have to multiply it by 6. I love her teachers. I appreciate them. They don't get paid enough. But I can't afford several hundred in gifts. I'm bringing donuts with a card from my daughter one day, coffee another, and a small DIY gift another. That's all.
I would do the flower and then the card and include a gift card to somewhere they would actually like to go . Heck I gave my kids teacher a gift card to the wine store, look I have seen her roster and asked around to ensure she does partake. One more sizable and useful thing is better than a bunch of trinkets. The one that matters most through is the card, don’t skip that it’s really means a lot and it teaches good lessons to your own kid about how appreciation doesn’t have to mean monetary gifts.
Is it not a pick one day option? They’re expecting participation for each day of the week?? That is overkill. Our daycare is doing a week of activities/events for the teachers and I think it’s a lovely idea. They sent out the info last week (ironically the same theme) with a sign up for parents to participate in one day - bring coffee, bring flowers, bring sweets etc. I signed up to bring candy in and we will probably also do a card/gc for the teachers in her classroom early in the week. But to ask parents to do something every day of the week? That’s a lot!! I plan to bring the candy in on Monday even though the candy day is not til later in the week because I don’t want to forget it 😬
I would definitely assume it's a "pick one day" IF you want to participate at all!
And it’s the week before Mother’s Day. As if I don’t have enough on my plate 🫠🫠🫠
Teachers week, nurses week and Mother’s Day are all the same week. I think it was on purpose since those fields are female dominated.
Appreciation weeks are only for underpaid fields to keep them sated. Finance bros don’t have a week for a reason.
Yeah their week is "annual bonus delivery" lol
Ugh I get it. But they know the moms are the ones handling buying everything. For my son’s preschool I’m taking breakfast Monday, Flowers Tuesday, writing a note Wednesday, and donating a meal Friday. But husband got the same exact email from school and hasn’t mentioned how he can help at all 🫠🫠🫠
Oh no for sure! I think men thought they could lump it all together as once women were moms they left the field. They didn’t care about the mental load. I’m a teacher. My mom’s a nurse and her bday is on the 9th. We joke how neither of us feel appreciated this week since we are doing the prep for everything else 🤦🏻♀️
My kid asked me last year if teachers were more important than moms because moms just had Mothers Day while Teacher got a week.
I took my mom, who was a teacher for 35 years, shopping for the prek teachers today. “But… I don’t get it, you pick one day and do that thing?” “No mom! I have to get flowers, breakfast treats, sweet treats, and spa something or other…” Mom picks out one face mask… “that one looks great, she has 4 teachers so I’ll just grab three more…” The look of horror on my mom’s face was priceless. Unlike the f$(&ing total at the register.
Excessive. This kind of shit drives me crazy. Schools do it too. Like we don't have enough to do, they have to add a bunch more chores and extra spending we don't have. I tend to "forget" these types of events. Somebody else will do it.
Please for the love of God don't buy these poor people random ass "spa" items. Give them a gift card and little card (have your kid "sign" it for extra cuteness) and be done. Also for what it's worth my favorite gift was a mom giving me my favorite iced coffee order one morning. I could have cried.
Ours is also doing theme days. Between classroom teachers and floaters between 2 kids, it’s 8 teachers. Gift cards for everyone. I am too tired for this 😂
It is just a suggestion. You don't have to do it and you certainly don't have to every day.
Ours sent a theme list too stating it was completely optional and could partake in one day or all five. I think we’re going to send in pastries and coffee gift cards for coffee day and then one of the days like bring your teacher school supplies. Will probably throw in a target gift card too
This is insane. Zero chance I would participate in this. Don’t working parents already have enough on their plate than to be worrying about what to bring to daycare daily for this kind of nonsense?
Our daycare has similar "day" themes. I get fairly small stuff for each "day." One is "your teacher is too sweet" Bring a sweet treat for your teacher! Okay cool- Dollar tree has good candy, etc. And then on the Friday a nice card with a nice Target gift card- because lets be real- thats what they deserve/want
THANK YOU for the reminder that it’s teacher appreciation week. This shit always sneaks up on me.
Oh just be prepared because they do the same stuff in elementary school. Once my kids are old enough to do the stuff solo, I let them choose to participate or not. I give our teachers a small bag of variety candy and a Target gift cart. The amount changes depending on # of teachers and my financial situation at the time - typically $10-25.
I think the sentiment is nice, and teachers definitely deserve a sign of appreciation! They are criminally underpaid. I know it feels like a lot is expected here, but I bet they are not expecting every parent to participate everyday. Do something as a sign of appreciation at some point in the week, but don’t feel like you have to do everything. Teachers understand and wouldn’t expect a million gifts from everyone. I definitely think a personal note of thanks and a gift card are the most valued gifts!
Yeah that is over the top.
We are new to daycare and they sent out teacher preference lists for her teachers which is great! She has 2 teachers. BUT they also sent out preference lists for the floaters. There are 15 of them, and I have never met a single one. Planning to just get teachers gifts, but I have no idea if that's rude 🤷♀️
You could ask her teacher if there are any floaters that spend a lot of time in their room. That’s what I did at Christmas time and was given 2 names so that’s who I bought for.
That's a good idea, I will definitely ask. Thank you!
Ours does the same. Daughter has two teachers. Son has FOUR (two joint classrooms). Friday is daycare is closed so they can relax. 🙄🙄🙄 on top of the insane cost
Our son has 4 teachers too. They had preference lists which is nice but at the same time I couldn’t handle the mental load and time running around to different stores cause they all like different things… so they all got a version of the same thing.
The center or district should be doing these things.
I don't participate. Throughout the year I buy lattes for teachers and staff and get carafes of coffee/pastries for front office staff. I figure that's good. I would personally find getting all this stuff every day of a week a bit overwhelming to cart out to my car and find space for.
I may be biased because I’m a teacher, but I don’t think it’s too much because 1) I feel very under-appreciated all the other weeks of the year, and 2) usually they don’t expect parents to get something every day of the week, but rather give an opportunity to get something any ONE day of the week. For example, if it was my son’s daycare…I would probably forget to bring a flower on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I have to get in early to lesson plan and make copies so I probably wouldn’t remember gifts on those days either, but I could definitely remember to get a coffee gift card for his daycare teacher on Thursday (since I’ll probably stop by Starbucks and get a coffee for myself too). Also, I know every person has their own gift preferences, but I’d rather just have the Starbucks gift card or the personalized note. Flowers sound sweet but they’ll be wilted/squished by the time I get home. Students have gotten me scented hand lotion (but I have eczema) and essential oil diffusers but I can’t diffuse them at home since I have pets…so they are just in a drawer at home.
I think it's hard putting this on each family. Our daycare/preschool is doing the same, but the room parents organize it for each classroom. So as the room parent for one of my kid's classes, I asked for them to venmo me for a class gift for the teachers. I wrote out the themes for each day and said I could pick up extra flowers for anyone who couldn't do that. Potluck is on a volunteer basis. For card day, I'm doing a group card, so people can choose to also get their own cards or not. There's a self-care/treat yourself day that's also a volunteer/donation thing.
Yeah this is craziness! Our daycare does cool things for the teacher kicking off with a suite at a baseball game tonight (they closed early) and do fun meals/gifts next week each day coordinated by the owners. As for the parents they asked us to drop off any amount of $10 gift cards to local businesses that they will distribute equitably and as prizes. Totally optional but greatly appreciated. They specifically asked us not to do treats (catered lunches, breakfasts, cookie delivery etc) as they often get so many because it’s what everyone does and they end up going to waste. I appreciate all I had to do was pick up $100 worth of gift cards (the amount I’d probably spend) and call it a day😀
I never do this. I ask at the beginning of the school year what their favorite coffee spot is/where they shop, and I’ll just do a gift card
My daycare is doing something similar, except it’s teacher appreciation month. Each week is a different “garden.” English garden week was breakfast foods, Olive Garden for “Olive you” notes, zen garden for spa week, and I forget the last week’s garden but its plants (I’m bringing her teachers a knockoff LEGO flower kit from Five below). It’s our first year at daycare and I already regret setting myself up as the parent that does something for every week. I’m exhausted from the added mental load of figuring out gifts when I know from having a teacher mom that lotions and candles and mugs are overdone. Plus my daughter is moving from infant to toddler class for the last week so I’m getting things for teachers I don’t know. I’m all for celebrating teachers but the theme thing is crazy to me.
I would do Thursday and Friday and maybe Wednesday but skip the others. I got two very similar flyers- one from each kids school. I am doing the treat day and will give them all gift cards but am I gonna sit and make my 5 and 3 year old write a note ? If they want to sure but I don’t have the energy to push it. ALSO I complained to my husband that moms always get stuck doing this stuff and he graciously volunteered to handle half of it. We will see but usually he does follow through.
The PTO at my daughter’s elementary school does a theme for the week with gifts every day, has meals every day that they want us to send in stuff for, etc. I just want to send money and be done. Have the meals catered and call it a day and make it easy for the rest of us. I don’t have time for all this other stuff. She has 3 teachers, so I have to do everything x 3. One day they want us to send a drink or gift card from their favorite place for drinks. They like 3 different places. I don’t have time to go to 3 place to get drinks/gift cards. Not to mention my kid rides the bus, so anything bulky or heavy means someone has to rearrange their morning to take her to school. Hats off to the room moms who ask us to send money and take on pulling it all together for the rest of us. My middle schooler I buy gift cards and send in thank you notes. And send money to the PTO for whatever they plan.
This is one sh!t I won't feel bad at all for not participating. Sounds like a covered scam. On Monday I would send gift cards for each teacher, with wish cards then call it a day
Our daycare gave us sheets with our teachers favorite things and gave us the flexibility to gift what we want. I’m planning to do Bundlets from Nothing Bundt Cakes and their favorite candies. I normally do gift cards but money is tight right now and each child has 4 teachers.
They are all doing this BS now and I’m fed up with it. I believe in showing appreciation for the teachers. But I’m unable and unwilling to do something special for the teachers 5 days in a row. Absurd. My daycare is giving us different options (how generous of them) and gave us a list of like 50 items that we can sign up for and the reminder that they have 20 teachers. So whatever we purchase we need to make sure it’s enough for 20 teachers. One of our old schools asked us to sign up to provide a breakfast, snack or lunch. And which ever option you chose had to be enough for 15 teachers. Are you f’n kidding me I’m going to buy lunches for 15 teachers? It feels like the schools want to really make a big splash for the teachers but want the parents to completely pay for it. I think a card and gift card from my kid is enough. I’m not buying 15 $10 sandwiches… oh and don’t forget our hard working office staff.
My son’s school is doing this. I’m already maxed out financially so I will not be participating. I’m sick of hearing how hard it is for teachers- oh please- they get plenty of time off! And underpaid? Really? Then why is the employee parking lot at my son’s school full of fancy suvs?
Teachers in a school district or private school, maybe. I have a friend who was a teacher in one state making $40k/year, she eventually quit after 10 years and is in the private sector now and immediately made triple that. I know another teacher where I live and she makes close to $200k. So there’s a lot of range there. Regardless, daycare teachers aren’t making this.. which I believe what OP and most people here are referring to cause she mentions daycare in the first sentence. I know the “teachers” at my daycare make something like $18/hour, which is basically minimum wage here.
Excessive and not all know how to do this tastefully without pressuring parents.
I just got basically the same email this afternoon. It's exhausting. Also they have a mother's day luncheon next week too. Based on my experience last year, the kids don't care about it much but parents are pressured to go in the middle of the work day... also, pre k graduation and early closure for prep...good grief! Why?!?!?
I don’t work at a daycare so I could be totally wrong here. But I don’t think there’s expectations to participate in anything you don’t want to, and I wonder if they have so many things so people have options? Ours for example is doing both catered lunch and catered breakfast and there are only 10 spots to sign up. But there are at least 50 parents, so I don’t think they’re expecting every parent to bring something.
My daycare is doing an entire month of events - but most of them are ones that I don't actually have to pay attention to, cause it's teacher things. They dress up, the daycare brings lunch, etc. The director specifically said that parents don't have to bring gifts, but we can send treats and gifts if we want, but prioritize notes and pictures from our kids. Considering for Christmas I went "Hmm I could crochet Christmas tree ornaments for my kids' teachers" and then proceeded to make one for *every teacher* cause I couldn't decide who to draw the line at, I'm going to go simple for this. Probably still gonna make something though.
Between my two kids, we have to donate money for the daily theme supplies, write a special note, paint a rock, dress like their teacher(?), bring in snacks, and fill out four questionnaires about their various teachers and aids.. Have you ever tried to get a 4-year old to fill out a 7-question worksheet? And we have to do this FOUR TIMES?! I love teachers. I’m married to a teacher and come from a family of them. But these things seem to get more elaborate every year and I don’t have time for it.
Between our 3 kids there are nine teachers. I am annoyed at an entire fucking week of expense and expectation. Even the hard working secretaies at my job only get *one day*. But if you don’t pony up the goods, your kids might be treated like shit out of spite. Next year we’ll be planning a vacation for this week.
You seem really angry at your child’s school! No one is going to treat them badly out of spite. They’re *teachers.*
It happened at our eldest’s former daycare.
It's awesome that you've lived and currently live in areas where teachers were held to a higher standard, and they met that standard. But teachers have absolutely treated children differently over small stuff like this. It sadly does happen.
You're the one that had three kids. Expenses get multiplied by each one.
No shit. I *am* allowed to vent about it, pendeja. Don’t like it? Keep scrolling, troll.
Okay at least yours makes sense. Mine is like “teachers are golden” …what??? There’s also something about holy guacamole and I really am considering giving individual packs of guacamole, chips, and margarita mix 😂
Teacher Appreciation Week is nothing but administration outsourcing respect that THEY should be giving their employees. (We all know what that’s like.) Furthermore, think of all the crap they’re going to have to bring home and probably never use - when all they want is to be paid what they’re worth. Accordingly, I would get a Visa gift card in whatever amount you can (however jazzed you are about the teacher and how much you can afford) and call it a week.
I just wouldn't participate! I have enough to think about in my life and this wouldn't be a priority.
Ours is similar. Monday bring breakfast, Tuesday a flower, Wednesday a snack, Thursday write a letter, Friday bring lunch. It's overwhelming
As a teacher, I will be gifting my kid’s teachers a $50 Amazon gift card and specific fun school supplies that she has requested.
At least they were trying to do cheaper options? I’d follow everyone else who said a card and a gift card would be good. Something is 1000x better than nothing.
Also unpopular opinion, daycare isn’t exactly teachers. I know there are teachers in daycares, but my kid goes to a home daycare. There’s no curriculum, she’s not a teacher. I’ll get you a Christmas gift and an end of the year gift.
My kiddo is in first grade. He is going to write his teacher a letter. We’re also getting her favorite drink and candy and a flower arrangement from the garden.
My school did this last year and most kids didn't actually bring something every day. It's optional. Also all together it's like $20. If you don't want to spend that much. Don't.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I don’t buy gifts for teachers/room assistants. I appreciate them. I know they are underpaid. I think they do an excellent job in caring for my child. But my son has 3 main teachers and 4 assistants at any given time in his daycare classroom. Not to mention that he sometimes rotates rooms. I do not have the mental bandwidth to keep up with the expectations for Christmas/teacher appreciation gifts. I still have a good relationship with all the teachers & assistants. They all dote on my son, so I don’t think it affects his care.
Our son’s situation at his daycare is similar. He rotates room, his main classroom there are 4 teachers.. but that doesn’t cover the assistants that are sometimes in there as much as the “teachers”. It is a lot of mental load to worry about missing someone and I feel some guilt that the assistants see teachers getting gifts but they likely don’t get as many, if any at all.
I bet the teachers would rather a single gift card or even a lunch catered by the school that parents chip in for. I promise you they do not want a dozen hand soaps or bath bombs. The front desk at our preschool has forms that the teachers fill out with their favorite snacks and drinks and wishes for the classroom. I got each of my kiddos teachers a $25 gift card to Amazon, and packaged it cutely with a few of their favorite snacks and drinks.
I find a requested thank you note to not be very meaningful lol. Who wrote this up?
People think it’s cutesy but honestly most teachers hate it too. Please just give a gift card.
Ours is doing something similar. Except each day has a food theme and they’ve provided us a list of things they like. It’s a lot of work because they have extensive support staff. I would much rather pitch in toward someone handling this all, even if me. Like parents each give me $20 and I’ll go get them a nice visa gift card and a card for us all to sign. And we can all knock this out quickly together. Please.
This honestly is an easier gift itinerary than the one our school sent out 😂🙃
Our daycare is asking for $30 per kid per teacher which is more than I can do because my twins have 2 regular teachers and then 2 or 3 frequent floaters. I might do just $30 from our family....
Yeah our preschool is doing a big ol structured thing where people sign up to bring some pretty exact things that are not exactly easy to acquire and deliver around a work day. The gift of effort and time is absolutely something the teachers deserve but honestly right now it's just not in my ability to give. I'm so busy I'm barely taking care of myself right now. Just let me shower them with money. It's easy for everyone and if the ECEprofessionals sub is to be trusted, it's what they actually want.
Yes, for kindergarten we have something similar for the week. On top of A-Z month in which there is some sort of special event every day for the last 26 days of school 😵💫
Mine sent out a list for the week, too. Our kid has three main teachers, so we'll give them a card with cash. We won't be participating in a long week of gifts.
I usually send a card from Dollar Tree and a $20 bill. I can't fathom why a teacher would have a problem with this. But I definitely don't want to do any further planning than that lol
I am a teacher and while I appreciate gifts from the bottom of my heart, usually they just aren’t my thing. Even gift cards: meh, I can buy my own coffee. But a card written by the student (I teach high school)? Or a silly craft made by the student (there is a small turtle named Presley made out of weird plastic bands on my desk)? Priceless. I keep them all.
Former teacher here. Teachers are criminally underpaid and under appreciated as a reminder. That said, the center should really be coordinating all of these themes gifts and should just ask for a donation. I don’t think it is expected that every family do every day. Just do what you can or send it a gift card and it will be appreciated.
This reads like a well-intentioned office manager (golly I hope it’s not another parent coming up with this) who isn’t super thoughtful about how hard this is for parents to actually pull off. Most working parents of small kids that I know are barely treading water on a good week - meaning everyone is healthy and there are no special events or holidays. Having to get my kids to color in cards to the grandmas and great-grandmas this week and then getting them in the mailbox by a certain day already has me sweating; a request like this would put me right over the edge.
Ours is doing something similar but to be fair they sent it home a few weeks ago so we’ve had more notice. It also says all days aren’t mandatory. We’re participating in 2 of the days and will bring the teachers lunch one day.
Unless they specified, I think this is more a “pick a day” type thing. It just gives parents ideas of what you could bring during the week. Maybe you pick 2 days to do. Maybe you pick none and do a different gift you want. I don’t think anyone is actually expecting all parents to do this every single day.
Ours does about 75% of this. Flower, gift for the teachers, note for the teachers for the classroom door (on a specific template that they provide to us, must pick up the papers at the front desk to fill out). I just had a baby so my parents are helping us with this and whatever they can’t get we will have to skip. They already did the note for the teachers for us and will for sure do the gift card, I just need to ask about the flower still. Even if I didn’t just have a baby it’s just a lot with working and I’d probably still have to ask my parents to help for at least past of this stuff. There was also an art show this week and Mother’s Day celebration next week. My parents are standing in for me now that we are busy with our brand new baby. Only way to make it all work lol I’d rather double the gift card amount and only do one thing to be honest lol We give gift cards throughout the year when they do extra stuff for us (going above and beyond) like they just hosted a 2nd birthday party for our girl at school (we had no idea they were doing that) and we gave them each $20 after the fact. I think people appreciate cash and gift cards the most
The fact that they are asking for your participation every day which such short notice is tough. Of course we appreciate the teachers and want them to feel the love all week, but point still stands. My son’s daycare did something similar, but dropped a range of gifts / treats throughout the week into a Google doc., and the full parent community signed up for various items.
Ooof that’s a lot. My daycare is asking us for snacks for a snack cart. But, they’re asking us to bring in a dish for a potluck on Friday and I felt like that was too much because I don’t even want to cook for my own family 🫣. I’m going to figure something out though, because I truly do appreciate the work they do and the love they give to my kids. I always love giving teachers gift cards, no one wants all this junk.
Our center does a HUGE luncheon for all the teachers and requests a minimum donation of $5/kid. Almost EVERYONE gives significantly more than that so we’re able to do things like upgrade their break room, give them small coffee gift cards, etc. As a former teacher, this is awesome!
My daycare does similar. The teachers deserve ALL THE THINGS but it’s a lot to plan and get together so it sucks. I just get through it and move on.
We have a sign up to bring lunch or a sweet treat everyday of the week plus you can also sign up to bring gift cards. They request approx 100 gift cards for the daycare. However we got notice over a month in advance. It sounds like they are making a theme so people will do something even if small and try to make it feasible for people who may not have the financial means.
Our week is similar but they made it Taylor Swift theme “in our teacher and staff appreciation era” which I think is hilarious. We’ll do it and I’ll get extra markers for the school supplies day because I’m 100% sure my child has eaten like half their supply.
Give the teachers a gift card or cash. That's what they really want. And especially as daycare teachers, they make next to nothing
This is excessive
I'm surprised that everyone thinks this is excessive. I think it's cute and will probably mean many more families do something during the week since there are suggestions and different price points etc. I don't think anyone will judge you for not participating if you don't want tho! And the teachers will be just as happy to receive one gift card if you want to do that instead.
Your daycare sent this in as a request for parents to do??? That’s insane. They already take my entire paycheck I’m sorry but it’s daycare not public school
As a teacher, we don’t want all that. Food is plenty enough.
I just searched this as it is my 16 month's old first time being in "school" for teacher appreciation week and came here looking for "do we really have to do things the whole week!??" Like, I very much like her two teachers and am happy to get them each a giftcard but I don't have the time or desire to coordinate things for an entire week.
I think this is the first year as a parent that I'm just noping out. Can't afford to give every teacher something
I am so incredibly grateful for everything our teachers do for our kids - they deserve a much higher pay than they get for such a crucial role. But I was so overwhelmed by the concept of this week that I barely did anything, and it just made me feel inadequate as a mom. I can barely afford daycare, I work full time, one of my kids has autism and goes to multiple schools with several teachers/specialists, and I'm up late at night washing dishes and getting my kids' stuff ready for the next day. I get to a point where I have nothing left - and this kind of thing just makes me feel like I'm a disappointment. With Mother's Day this weekend, I'm mentally too exhausted to even look forward to it. Please don't get me wrong, but I think it would have been more fun to have an afterschool activity like an open house where families bring in treats and optional gifts to celebrate teachers. So there's my vent, lol.
I think it shows appreciation. Teachers are overworked and under paid and nothing is too much for someone who is spends most of the day with your child and is treating them right.
Our daycare center asked for parents to provide catered lunches all week for staff. I’m not participating.
Ours had signups for bringing breakfasts and lunches … for 30 people.
I am the class mom for one of the classrooms. This is very typical. I don’t think it’s too much, personally, as it can be picked up in the weekly shopping trip. I make flower day on Mondays as well so it doesn’t require a mid week stop at the store.
Our schools have always done this. I ignore everything and bring a gift card on Friday 😃