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Last edited by IansMom; 12-01-2016 at 01:39 PM.
I've done $10 GC to Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, Panera, or Target for teacher aides and bus drivers. This year I picked out books from the teachers' wish lists at the bookfair and will give the classroom teachers the books and probably a small gift card to one of the above. Or chocolates. The girls had some samples of some chocolate truffles at Sam's club that came in little gift boxes and thought their teacher's would like those too.
I was on the fence about DD1's violin teacher (she started in June and goes 30 min. weekly). I do give small gifts to their Sunday School teachers, as they go above and beyond to do things for the kids. I normally give something small to the bus driver but this year they each have a different one, and they just started riding the bus this week now that we are moved into our new house. So I may skip bus drivers and just do an end of year gift for them.
I'm giving $50 amazon gc for the teachers and coaches.
DD1 September 2008
DD2 March 2011
Last year I did $5 Starbucks gift cards to the specials teachers. I will probably do the same with swim coaches (the kids have several coaches, so I'd need 5 coach gifts.)
DD (3/06)
DS1 (7/09)
DS2 (8/13)
Anything over 25.00 is almost too much, I worked in the schools, and quite honestly if a teacher was given 50.00 or more from one family it seemed too much (and some have stipulations that gifts cannot exceed a certain amount, usually 25.00).
Mama to :
DS1 (July 2011)
DD (Feb 2014-June 2015)
DS2 (Apr 2017)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it."
--Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird)