The culture of the school is to give gifts to the teachers for holidays and at the end of the year. A class gift is normal, and room parents decide together with the teacher what the teacher wants and then fundraises and there is a party at the end of the year, where the gift is presented. Also, given that there are many teachers that your child has so you have to get them all gifts. Typical "independent" school norms. Then, there are the extra gifts, particularly if your child is difficult and you have a lot of money.
I understand that you are kidding, but if it were the school culture you would not have to have imagination to do it because someone would clue you in.
No, Linda, I was not kidding. Occasionally I saw a few red apples on the teacher's desk at the end of the year or at Christmas. But our elementary school had an educational foundation which fund raised and provided teachers with money for field trips and school supplies. My husband was vice president of the foundation for several years and I volunteered for clean up for the Garden Party (the big fundraiser) and the School Carnival. Usually only the movers and shakers did clean up because no one else wanted to do it. The rest did set up. The movers and shakers had an after party at someone's house and didn't get home until about 4am. In the late Eighties and early Nineties we raised about 100K from items donated to the auction at the Garden Party. This was a public school in a high end suburb north of Berkeley. Now I think they raise about $175K.
Gosh, I must be naive. I never ever considered giving a gift to one of my son's teachers for better grades. I must work on my imagination.
The culture of the school is to give gifts to the teachers for holidays and at the end of the year. A class gift is normal, and room parents decide together with the teacher what the teacher wants and then fundraises and there is a party at the end of the year, where the gift is presented. Also, given that there are many teachers that your child has so you have to get them all gifts. Typical "independent" school norms. Then, there are the extra gifts, particularly if your child is difficult and you have a lot of money.
I understand that you are kidding, but if it were the school culture you would not have to have imagination to do it because someone would clue you in.
No, Linda, I was not kidding. Occasionally I saw a few red apples on the teacher's desk at the end of the year or at Christmas. But our elementary school had an educational foundation which fund raised and provided teachers with money for field trips and school supplies. My husband was vice president of the foundation for several years and I volunteered for clean up for the Garden Party (the big fundraiser) and the School Carnival. Usually only the movers and shakers did clean up because no one else wanted to do it. The rest did set up. The movers and shakers had an after party at someone's house and didn't get home until about 4am. In the late Eighties and early Nineties we raised about 100K from items donated to the auction at the Garden Party. This was a public school in a high end suburb north of Berkeley. Now I think they raise about $175K.