Maybe I am being miserable and tight about this, I don't know. My Dc's teacher has told the whole class when her birthday is (the exact date, as opposed to "next month" etc). There is now a flurry of activity amongst some of the parents to buy gifts and bake cakes.
I have never known this to happen before. It feels a bit wrong to me. There are families in the class who definitely can't afford to buy gifts, while there is also a group of extremely wealthy parents, who are driving this.
It feels way, way too much to me, esp with end of term gifts so close. I doubt the teacher told them with any of this in mind and probably doesn't expect anything at all, but this is ... A bit bonkers, right?
Surely birthday gifts for teachers aren't a "thing"?!