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Preschool teacher gift s/o daycare gift

MommyAttyMommyAtty member
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DD is in preschool from about 9-2 three days a week. I'm thinking the gift should be about what you guys are talking about for daycare teachers. $25-50 gift card per teacher. I'm new to this, so am I completely off-base? DD has 3 teachers. 1 is MW, 1 is Friday, and 1 is all three days. I was still going to do equal gifts. I'm assuming that's okay. Help! Who knew preschool politics was so hard?
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  • minirellaminirella member
    Yes, I would get them equal gifts. We just have 1 teacher but will give a poinsettia + $20 gc.
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  • djm31012djm31012 member
    Agree--equal gifts and whatever you are comfortable with. I am spending about $40 on ea teacher (small gift, and a gift card)
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  • jbatchjbatch member

    $25-$50 is very generous. I run a daycare and I don't think anyone gives my teachers that much. I'm not saying you shouldn't but I am saying you should not feel as though you have to. Most parents give something around $10-$20. I will probably give a $10 gift card and an ornament or something to my daughters teachers.


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  • MommyAttyMommyAtty member
    @jbatch‌ - thanks for the input. I'm trying to hit the sweet spot between cheap and douche-y. Maybe I'll stay on the $25 side of things.
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  • BeevolBeevol member
    My daughter switched class rooms this year, and her DC has three floating teachers who go between rooms as needed, so I have a total of 7 teachers who I am going to buy gifts for this year (two in each room, plus the floats) and I decided at that point WTH and am going to get something for the nutritionist who is there and who my daughter /loves/. They're getting $10 gift cards to amazon.com or Target. 
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  • Abenedict2011Abenedict2011 member
    I am putting together a gift basket of gourmet pretzel rods dipped in nuts and chocolate candies. That way all the teachers get something sweet!
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  • jbatchjbatch member
    MommyAtty said:
    @jbatch‌ - thanks for the input. I'm trying to hit the sweet spot between cheap and douche-y. Maybe I'll stay on the $25 side of things.
    I definitely was not trying to imply that $50 would be douche-y!!! I hope you did not feel as though that was what I was saying!


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    jbatch said:
    MommyAtty said:
    @jbatch‌ - thanks for the input. I'm trying to hit the sweet spot between cheap and douche-y. Maybe I'll stay on the $25 side of things.
    I definitely was not trying to imply that $50 would be douche-y!!! I hope you did not feel as though that was what I was saying!

    Lol. No, that was definitely all me. When I was trying to figure out what to give, that's what I thought. I don't want to be the insane outlier on either end of the spectrum. I'm already weird because I'm one of I believe two working moms with kids in the class. I'm just trying hard not to be any weirder!
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  • Mustardseed2007Mustardseed2007 member

    I'm doing a 25 dollar gift card for each teacher (I'm doing amazon this year which may or may not be good to do but I like how they do their gift cards) and then I'm also contributing money to the class pool. We're doing the same regardless - that includes 1 floater who is usually helping in DD's room and 1 new teacher in DS's class who just started full time last Monday.





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