He And His Wife Want To Continue Giving $1,000 Bonuses To Help Out Their Son’s Teachers, Even Though The School Admin Asked Them To Stop
Over the past two years, this man and his wife have always given their son’s teachers very generous Christmas and end-of-year gifts– totaling a whopping $1,000 each.
On the first day of school, he and his wife also provided their son’s teacher with a $500 Amazon gift card to be used for school supplies for the classroom.
His wife always included a very nice thank you card, too, and wrote a note detailing their appreciation.
“We hope this helps take a little of the burden off running short of items for the kids. My parents were both teachers, with my mom teaching kindergarten, so I saw how often she would purchase items for her classroom out of pocket. We can afford to do this, and it makes us really happy to help out,” his wife writes.
And just yesterday, his 5-year-old son started his first day of kindergarten. For the previous two years, he had been attending the same school for Pre-K3 and Pre-K4 with different teachers and aides each year.
So, they dropped their son off for the third year at this school, and his wife gave their son’s new teacher the Amazon gift card and the note– wishing the teacher, who was brand new at the school, a good first year.
“What I believe happened is she got nervous she couldn’t accept this and went to the admins on how to proceed,” he recalled.
“No issue with that; probably a sound idea.”
However, one of the admins wound up contacting him later in the afternoon and claimed that he and his wife could not give Amazon gift cards anymore. On top of that, the admin also asked them to stop providing the $1,000 Christmas and end-of-year gifts.
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Now, he believes that a different teacher– maybe from a previous year or a different educator altogether– might have said something about the gifts.
But he cannot imagine who would do something like that because he and his wife only ever received gratitude from their son’s last teachers.
“All the previous teachers and aides– four women– have been over the moon over the thank-you gifts,” he explained.
“We’ve gotten such nice thank you cards, hugged before. One of the aides started crying in appreciation with my wife, telling her how much it meant to her,” he continued.
“So, they clearly like the financial gifts. What’s the problem here? They deserve every penny.”
Not to mention, his son’s school is always trying to raise money from parents to help out with classroom activity costs.
That’s why he just doesn’t understand how the $500 Amazon gift card is viewed as a bad thing when it could definitely assist the school with classroom expenses.
“We think it’s puzzling why we would need to stop the Amazon gift card and think it’s absolutely nobody else’s business what we tip, bonus, or gift at Christmas break and on the last day,” he vented.
He and his wife realize that the teachers may be discussing the gifts in the staff lounge, leading other educators to feel jealous if they’re not teaching his son.
Regardless, they don’t think that’s a valid reason for the school to ban their gifts if the money can really help the school and its students.
That’s why he and his wife are considering just disregarding the admin’s instructions and continuing to give big gifts– with the next one being at Christmas.
But they’re not sure if that would be the wrong thing to do or not.
Why do you think the admin told him and his wife to stop? Could it be that other teachers are getting jealous, or might there be another reason? Can you understand why they think their gifts could really help the school? Should they disregard admin due to this or not?
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