Should teacher and TA get the same?

[Crunchymum]

Parents contributed for a class gift (vouchers) for teacher and TA.

Organiser decided to give £260 to teacher and £140 . Was SBU?

snapped but the point is if you bought a bottle of wine and card for teacher and ta you'd be spending between £10-£20 anyway. We do class collections, most people only put in less than £5 but the teacher/ta get something actually worth something instead of loads of small gifts including loads of 'best teacher' novelty crap they probably don't want twenty of.
£400 collected from one class is insane though.

To answer the original question I would give the same to both, it's a thank you not payment.

The money division is fine even 300 to 100 was fine. Anyway it's too much money. However TAs do loads and it's not nice to have people say we do or know nothing or very little. Some TAs do half of the marking and also have play duties, the displays, sick children need looking after, running up and down ( literally ) looking for resources ferrying children from a to b, behaviour incidents etc. Also as a TA you take home about a 1000,teachers take home a min of double that when they start work,i at least in London.

Also teachers always get more gifts. As a TA you are luck if one child remembers you exist

Lucky

@wait68 but wait you didn't need to go to uni to become a TA and get into £50k plus debt.

Who told you I don't have a degree? and I've chosen that job to get home early to my children? Again you are assuming things like that one saying we do nothing

But who has informed you that I have not been to uni but chosen to get home early to my children? Don't presume anything. Point is, are you getting a gift when you do nothing or very little as a TA.

@wait68 no one is saying you can't have a degree and be a TA!! I'm saying you don't have to have a degree to be a TA !! Massive difference

Onwhitehorses why is my attitude strange? I’d like to thank the teacher more than the ta. I’m not saying I don’t thank the ta but that I appreciate the bigger effort the teacher goes to in making my child’s learning a success. I still thank the ta but she doesn’t spend the same hours working for my child that a teacher does and so my thank you is smaller.

I'm a TA and I wouldn't/don't mind that kind of split. The gifts aren't expected and everything is appreciated. I don't use gifts as an appreciation of my work(especially since we are in a fairly deprived area).

I do have to say that the attitude of some people on this thread does grate. Hopefully it doesn't show regardless of what type of gifts they give.

P.s. I did get the best mug ever!!

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(wait68no one is saying you can't have a degree and be a TA!! I'm saying you don'thaveto have a degree to be a TA !! Massive difference.)
This was not the point , point was 'they do nothing or very little'

The organiser of our class gifts (reception) did similar and I was surprised. We have 2 TAs and the more senior one got a more expensive gift than the other TA. Tjis made me feel awkward, im not sure why, but I would have given them all the same. They all work hard, the teacher works more hours but their pay reflects this. I feel uneasy that a gift of thanks is also divided up like this

Forgot to add... we don't really do "compare bears" anyways so we wouldn't really know.

I wouldn't stress too much. I'm a TA I don't discuss the amount I got with my teacher. There's no point and could cause bad feeling. I would expect the teacher to get more because the job they do is so intense. My job is also intense but ultimately, the buck lies with the teacher and it's their pay that could get frozen if they don't meet targets.
I'm grateful for anything and it's the appreciation that means more.

I would go halfers for both. Yes the teacher probably works longer hours and has more responsibility. But she is better remunerated for the privilege

I think it depends on the teachers/TAs involved and how good they are with your child.

We have 5 TAs help p/t so we have half to Teacher and half to the TAs as a whole. We did it as multiple parents too so think it was 150/150.

I think a teacher can accept but has to declare it and if money, possibly get it taxed?

I'm sure someone more knowledgable will come along.

We do 50/50 on the collection between teacher and TA, but not raised anything like that! They are getting £100 voucher each and some chocolates.