Do kids still exchange valentines?

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When I was in grade school (Chicago - 1960s), kids exchanged valentines at school. Very inexpensive little cards, generally with cartoon characters or something. I seem to recall you were required to bring enough to give one to each kid in the class - to avoid anyone feeling left out. Tho I also recall something about decorating folders that other kids would put the valentines in.

Didn’t notice packs of those valentines in the store this year, and my kids are long out of grade school. (Granddtr is in pre-school - I will have to ask my dtr if they exchange valentines at preschool.)

Is this still done these days?

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My kid was in elementary school a couple years ago and their policy was either you give a valentine to everyone or to no one. Seems fair. We bought him inexpensive ‘cards’ to give to his classmates, that were not unlike the ones we exchanged as kids. As it happened, I think the large majority of kids provided valentines for their classmates.

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My wife teaches middle school, and the kids are exchanging cards today.

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I work in a discount store. We get requests for Valentines, which we don’t carry, and sell tons of red gift bags and bags of packages of candy.

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It’s not done at my youngest son’s high school, I just learned this morning.

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Yes. At least in my nieces’ elementary schools.

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We never had that custom and being 'Peanuts" (comic) crazy as a kid, I never understood the TV specials where each kid made a box and others would put Valentines in it.

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I’ve never heard of students exchanging valentines in high school. Unless I’m being whooshed.

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WalMart has a whole section dedicated to the same type of Valentine’s I gave out when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. My grandchildren that live close by are exchanging in school today. They decorated boxes just like we did. And also as we did, they have to bring one for everyone. I remember we had to bring a shoe box or cereal box to school and then we were able to decorate it with construction paper, paper doilies, hearts, cupids, etc. We’d also have a party with candy and other treats.

Now my grandkids that live closer to the big city (150 miles away) don’t do Valentine’s Day in school. One year my granddaughter’s class did Vegetable Day instead! :(:dubious: Each kid brought a different vegetable and then I guess they all tried different vegetables. :confused:

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WalMart has a whole section dedicated to the same type of Valentine’s I gave out when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. My grandchildren that live close by are exchanging in school today. They decorated boxes just like we did. And also as we did, they have to bring one for everyone. I remember we had to bring a shoe box or cereal box to school and then we were able to decorate it with construction paper, paper doilies, hearts, cupids, etc. We’d also have a party with candy and other treats.

Now my grandkids that live closer to the big city (150 miles away) don’t do Valentine’s Day in school. One year my granddaughter’s class had Vegetable Day instead! :(:dubious: Each kid brought a different vegetable and then I guess they all tried different vegetables. :confused:

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Sorry, this posted twice. I received an error message when trying to submit the first time.

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Technically, you posted it three times, but who’s counting?

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Yes they do it here. All the way through 6th grade. Parents often bring cupcakes or treats to the classroom. When the lil’wrekker was in highschool some kids shared Valentines. The cheerleaders sold them as a fund raiser. You paid a dollar and gave the name of the recipient. The cheerleaders would deliver them during the last period class. Some kids parents would send Valentine balloons or flowers to school. It got to be a headache so the school banned it.

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My daughter is doing it today. We spent about 30 min last night helping her sign all of the cards for everyone in the class last night. They are also having a party that we made fruit kabobs for. No candy at least from her everyone is getting a Disney princess tattoo.

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I have one kid in middle school and another in elementary school. They are exchanging Valentine’s today in the elementary school, but not in middle school.

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No, not whooshing. I seem to remember some (not many) valentines being exchanged in my high school.

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My daughter and her close friends are exchanging Valentines gifts (11th grade, Catholic HS), but I don’t think she has done the “every kid in class gets a card” thing since middle school.

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My dtr said at the pre-school, it was almost like one of those competitions, where some parents went WAY overboard w/ gift bags and such. My dtr was on the cheap end, w/ cartoon valentines that she had her kid sign.

I don’t envy her as she enters the age of “what is appropriate in terms of parties, snack bags, etc…”

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yeah they did it here today and it usually ends about middle school
tho in jr and high school some of the clubs or student body associations make a card and flower thing or some sort of stuffed animal both with the kids can buy for each other

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Father of a first grader here, and yes, they still do Valentines. They even took in cereal boxes to make and decorate their own “mailboxes”.