Cheryl, the thread was by a woman with kids in elementary school. She, going along with what it seems you're supposed to do now, taped a box of Nerds (or something like that) to each Valentine her kid took in. Later, she got a call from another mom, who found a card from the Dis'ers child with tape on it with her child's other Valentines, but NO box of candy, and the woman asked if the Dis'er could send in another box of candy for her child.
So many questions...maybe the woman just wanted the diser to know that there was no candy, maybe the diser thought there was a request when there wasn't. Or maybe the woman just wanted her kid to have what the kid was supposed to have but didn't know what...or maybe she was really poor and couldn't afford to replace it....or maybe the woman was just crazy, LOL.
I left it after awhile (never joined in b/c that wasn't done when I was a kid, it wouldn't be done if DS were going to school, and I don't plan on him going to school, so I had nothing to add) but it was just weird on all sides.