School gate protocol

[MrsMarigold]

I'm feeling a bit irritated, this mum at DS's school is doing a collection to get the teacher and TAs a Christmas present. There are 30 kids in the class. She keeps hovering at pick up time and asking while holding out a jam jar, she's quite pushy and came up to me and two other mothers on Friday and I felt quite pressurised, one woman scrambled in her purse and gave a tenner, the other one looked like she felt she should do the same and did.

The jar is full of ten pond notes and if you gave less it would seem scrooge like. I didn't have my purse so didn't give but I feel it was handled badly.

Surely it would be better to send out an email and say, if you want to give the teacher and TAs a present please find me at pick up time and give me a small donation then it's optional rather than obligatory.

AIBU and would you have a quiet word?

We don't have class reps either though my sister who lives in England does.

I'm not really clear in what they are required for either Pyjama?

To irrationally hate the Dolce & Gabbana The One ad? Trying to be stylish with its cryptic nonsense "we never needed anything back then". Shut up or I'll throw you from this sky scraper! Such a big pile of cringey rubbish.

Are class reps an English thing? I've never heard of them where I am.

Not a general thing in England, I have never come across it. Just do your own thing.