In the past I have struggled with what to get for the both of my childrens’ teachers for Christmas. I usually wind up getting nothing, except for one year. That particular year my husband and I got to know both sets of teachers and assistants for the rooms that each of our children were in. In that case, we KNEW what each of those women liked because we got to talk to them so much throughout the year. In that case we bought gift cards for $20.00 to stores or restaurants that we knew they each liked. They were all thrilled with the gift cards they recieved.
Since then, we haven’t had the chance to quite get to know the teachers they’ve had as well as we did those other ladies. So I haven’t been getting anything. I personally feel guilty about this because my mother is a teacher and works with children who are severely emotionally and mentally disabled in high school. She doesn’t get paid NEARLY enough money to take care of those kids the way she does and yet she seldom recieves anything from parents showing any gratitude. She does what she does because she is good at it and loves it.
My point is that teachers are teachers because they WANT to be and because they love their job, not because they are making the big bucks. We should be thanking them in some sort of way just to let them know we were thinking about them and appreciate what they do with our children. Let me just say, on a side note, if your kid is a badass heathon of a child you BETTER get their teacher something!!! 
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