My son is in preschool, 3 days a week, class size of 14 or 15. One mother sent out an email to solicit feedback for a group gift. Everyone contibute 20 (two teachers- 10 each) and she would purchase gift cards. I was thankful that someone else took on the task!! I contributed. I saw 1 or 2 emails come back declining participation, the one that I remember seeing said that they had already purchased a gift.

Today, we got the total collected, and how the money was spent. Couple of gift cards, and the 'left over' money was used to purchase a gift card for the director. I think ALL of that was appropriate, and was really happy with the way it worked out.

The last sentance of the email indicated that so and so's mom had gotten a card and names of the contributors was sent to her to place in the card.
That totally rubs me the wrong way. I think, and especially in today's economic times, I really think, that ALL children's names should have been included, or, better yet, "From your 3 day am class". I sent the gift card purchaser an email, with a copy to all contributors, and expressed my opinion (in very nice terms) and asked that this be re-considered. I haven't had a response to that email yet.

What do you all think?