Class gift for 1st grade teacher

[kamik86]

You're an engineer and you punch a time clock?

"Punch" no, but because we do government contracts yes we have to report all of our time worked... down to 6 minute increments to comply with government time reporting laws.

I have worked at other businesses that didn't require me to keep a time card, but here because I'm working on 5-6 different contracts during a day, and have a few tasks that aren't contract chargable that go into an overhead budget I do have to.

Oh and one other note that is different from a punch time card...
Punch time cards would say something like today I showed up at 7:45 and worked until X time.
Our timecards just say I worked on X task for 2 hours and Y task for 3... They don't care if I did that work at midnight, 7 AM or 30 min 4 times during the day

 

[scrapquitler]

When my daughter was in school, we were never asked to contribute to a class gift. If we had been, I would have thought that $20 was too much.

My budget for teacher gifts was always $5-$10. $5 most of the time, $10 for a teacher that my daughter really loved.

Just because they are asking for $20, you aren't obligated to give that much, or any at all.

 

[gotomu212]

Last year my son's school started a new policy that forbids teachers gifts for holidays. There were a lot of concerns about gifts having an affect on grades. When I first heard about it I thought it was silly, but then I heard what some people were giving as gifts and holy cow!

They do allow a handmade end of year gift and our classes have done scrap books where each kid does a page and one did a backyard stone where each kid painted their handprint (honestly don't know how much people want that either).

 

[Vicki926]

I'm also in Bergen County. My kids are not in elementary anymore, but when they were, and I was class mom, if I did a class gift, I always asked for $10 each.
Most years I didn't bother because it was a pain to remind and to collect.
If other class moms asked I always gave the $10.
If there were no class gifts, I gave a $25 gift card at Christmas and June. Except my son's 4th grade year, that teacher got $50 and $50 because he was beyond awesome to those kids.