Kids giving other kids valentines gifts

To be honest, I never questioned it. I never got a card and never participated. Didn't care and, frankly, still don't 😂

I would head out to the shop and get her a little something.
I don't think it's a new 'thing' . I was at primary school in the 80's and we had a little post box for Valentines cards. One year, I got a pink panther teddy from a boy in my class 💓

It wasn’t a trend when my kids were at school (phew) I know it happens in places like the US which is fine if people know beforehand.
If people were going to do this then I wish there would have been a heads up so my child could reciprocate to those were gave her a card or gift.

That's mad!

I remember Valentine's cards being sent in secondary but a school actively encouraging it in primary school is crazy.

In the OP's case, I think it's tricky because it's not the school doing it, it's parents and although it's happening on school grounds, stopping people from bringing things in and giving presents is hard to actually enforce.

I don’t think this is Valentine’s Day specific - the school needs to have rules around bringing in gifts to school (in the same way many won’t allow party invitations to be given out in school) unless it’s e.g. sweets for the whole class. Otherwise the same is going to happen with Christmas presents, Easter eggs, when somebody goes on holiday and brings back souvenirs etc. I’d raise it as a general issue rather than making it specifically about this day.

We also had a Valentine’s postbox (and a Christmas postbox) when I was at primary school in the early nineties, and I remember then the unpopular children being sad on both occasions to not receive any or many cards, I assumed schools would have recognised this by now.

Do you not get her anything normally? I mean like if this hadn’t have happened would you have not got her anything? DD (the same age) got a little bouquet of roses from her daddy and she came out of school with 4 cards and 4 gifts! I knew about one as his mom asked me it it was okay to get her something, but it looked like she was in the minority, only her and one other girl had something in a pretty even 14 boys 13 girls class!

It’s pretty cute imo but not a new thing I remember getting little bits from boys at primary school, singing teddy etc.

Oh my goodness OP this is really depressing.
I just hope this is not a new trend.

I remember when my son was at primary school, many years ago, he knew a boy whose parents used to buy him and his sister gifts for Valentine's Day. I thought that was peculiar and I never heard of anyone else doing this.

But to groom.little children into giving Valentine's Day gift is just so sad.

This has always been a thing, as far as I am aware. We did "Valentine's post" at school (anonymous cards) and that was in the 90s.

I don’t think it’s sweet. I know of an 11 year old boy who planned to spend £35 on his ‘girlfriend’s’ choice of Pandora ring. Ludicrous.

Are you in the UK?