Gifts for Teacher wtf??

Fratton Fred

I was told to bring home a decent bottle of wine and a box of chocolates yesterday, so my daughter could give them to her teacher.

I'm a bit miffed at this. I pay a **** load of tax and the USC so our teachers can earn their bloated salaries. Now that they have come to the end of their cushty 30 hours a week term, I have to buy them presents as they **** off on their eight week holiday. The teachers should be buying me a bloody present.

Are our schools run for the benefit of the children or the teachers?

Chips Lovell

Who told you?

fedor.2.

You got any pics of the teacher?? is she hot?

jester77

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I was told to bring home a decent bottle of wine and a box of chocolates yesterday, so my daughter could give them to her teacher.

I'm a bit miffed at this. I pay a **** load of tax and the USC so our teachers can earn their bloated salaries. Now that they have come to the end of their cushty 30 hours a week term, I have to buy them presents as they **** off on their eight week holiday. The teachers should be buying me a bloody present.

Are our schools run for the benefit of the children or the teachers?

Is the teacher hot?

Logical Fallacy

Ha, when i was in school anyone who gave the teacher a present would have gotten a hiding.

Ah tolerance, it has turned children into awful losers.

Fratton Fred

No, no she is not hot at all. She might have been 30 years ago though.

listermint

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I was told to bring home a decent bottle of wine and a box of chocolates yesterday, so my daughter could give them to her teacher.

I'm a bit miffed at this. I pay a **** load of tax and the USC so our teachers can earn their bloated salaries. Now that they have come to the end of their cushty 30 hours a week term, I have to buy them presents as they **** off on their eight week holiday. The teachers should be buying me a bloody present.

Are our schools run for the benefit of the children or the teachers?

Who told you, if it was the wife. tell he to f off. But we cant help you on that one. You'll have to grow a spine.

fluffo

You could just not get him/her a present?

we used to give our music teachers gifts at the end of the year

never in school though

jimthemental

I think your daughter is tricking you into buying her drink :eek:

Fratton Fred

listermint wrote: »

Who told you, if it was the wife. tell he to f off. But we cant help you on that one. You'll have to grow a spine.

Yes it was.

Anyone who suggests growing a spine though is clearly not married.

_feedback_

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I was told to bring home a decent bottle of wine and a box of chocolates yesterday, so my daughter could give them to her teacher.

I'm a bit miffed at this. I pay a **** load of tax and the USC so our teachers can earn their bloated salaries. Now that they have come to the end of their cushty 30 hours a week term, I have to buy them presents as they **** off on their eight week holiday. The teachers should be buying me a bloody present.
Are our schools run for the benefit of the children or the teachers?

You still did it though, didn't you?

listermint

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Yes it was.

Anyone who suggests growing a spine though is clearly not married.

Or was married 3-4 times...........

Fratton Fred

Teachers should be forced to work over summer.

Maybe they could all go to Africa and do some work for Bono or something.

rainbowtrout

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Yes it was.

Anyone who suggests growing a spine though is clearly not married.

Why are you whining about giving a teacher a present who didn't ask for a present? That's how you made it sound in your first post. Either buy the present or tell your wife to buy it seeing as she was the one who suggested it.

MitchKoobski

Someone babysits around 20 kids, including yours, every day for 9 months and teaches them. I HATE knowing that they're gonna be home for the summer and I'm gonna have to put up with the "I'm booorrred" etc and all the whinging.
If they can put up with 20 of them for 9 months then I'll at least give 'em a bottle of wine.






And if she's hot, my number and some photos of Bradley Cooper.

TheBody

Why don't you get a job as a teacher if it's such a handy job? The older established teachers are on great conditions but the newer teachers are getting shafted. Poor pay, no permancy and worst of all, no respect.

Fratton Fred

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Why are you whining about giving a teacher a present who didn't ask for a present? That's how you made it sound in your first post. Either buy the present or tell your wife to buy it seeing as she was the one who suggested it.

I'm not whining, I'm raging that I am expected to buy presents for lazy spoilt teachers.

Jam

I'm just curious how much teacher's actually earn. Or how much you think they actually earn. It is by no means an easy eight-hour day with all the conveniences and modern equipment available.

I know one of my college lecturers, the head of his department, took a 20% paycut to around €50k. This is a senior 3rd level position, mind. And definitively not a standard 40-hour week with a well-staffed, well-equipped labs and facilities.

Subsequently, we as a class, took our academic staff out for dinner at the end of the year for the sheer amount of work they put in to teach us.

ColeTrain

Get her a bottle of buckie and a chomp.

Superbus

Why suck up at the end of the year, when she'll as good as never see the teacher again? Give the gift on September 1st, teacher will be on her side from the off.

sunflower27

I saw little boxes of pot pourri in Dunnes the other day with 'A gift for the teacher' on them. They are 4euro. Just get her that

Opelfruit

This is the most pointless rant I've ever seen on this site!

What has your wife wanting to suck up to a teacher got to do with taxes, teachers holidays?

frag420

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I was told to bring home a decent bottle of wine and a box of chocolates yesterday, so my daughter could give them to her teacher.

I'm a bit miffed at this. I pay a **** load of tax and the USC so our teachers can earn their bloated salaries. Now that they have come to the end of their cushty 30 hours a week term, I have to buy them presents as they **** off on their eight week holiday. The teachers should be buying me a bloody present.

Are our schools run for the benefit of the children or the teachers?

Well as they are rearing your kids maybe they deserve/need it...................too many people moaning about teachers these days. Easy target eh??

If you wanted 8 weeks holidays then you should have studied harder and became one and I aint a teacher but I know several and despite not being in school building during the summer quite a few are marking your kids exams, setting up there lessons for Sep etc etc etc.

Would ya roide her though, thats the important part cause then you may not have to get them wine??

stargazer 68

Well I have no objection to giving teachers a gift at the end of the year. I certainly wouldnt do my sons teachers job - 25+ hormonal 12 year olds. No thanks! And she is hot!!!

Mountjoy Mugger

Why take it out on the teacher? Take it out on your wife, ffs!!!

flutterflye

I sent my son in with three home made cards - One for the teacher, one for the principal, and one for the sna.

But I felt so scabby when I saw the table filled with gifts, mostly quite extravagant.

It's ridiculous!

His last school sent around a note to all students stipulating that there were to be no gifts, only cards.
I think that should be the done thing in all schools.

mailforkev

Mrs Me's brother is a primary teacher and you should see the swag he gets at the end of every year.

Enough drink to drop an elephant, DVDs etc. A good few hundred quids worth of bounty year in year out.

He's a teacher in a bit of a kippy area, I'd love to see what the well off schools' teachers get (or are they scabbier than the more "working class" folk?).

allydylan

a box of chocolates and a decent bottle of wine?!!! that's ridiculous!
who told you to get a present for the teacher?

my advice to you is to not give your daughter's teacher a present of any kind, keep you're money for yourself and your family, spending how much would a decent wine and a box of chocolates cost? the answer alot, and what has this teacher done to deserve these gifts? **** all

my younger sisters, are still in primary school and there teacher seems to expect a present when the summer holidays come up AND for christmas, and this particular teacher is awful at her job my sisters can barly do basic maths sums, because they aren't taught them properly by there teacher

there are plenty of teachers like this going around...so do yourself a favour and don't spend money on this teacher, have a night out instead

who the fug

When did this start, and where did it come from?

karma_

to all those saying this is madness, just stop and realise that these souls have to put up with your brats for 5 days a week and they deserve a bottle of wine at the end of this ordeal.

Fratton Fred

frag420 wrote: »

Well as they are rearing your kids

They'd better ****ing not be.

rainbowtrout

allydylan wrote: »

a box of chocolates and a decent bottle of wine?!!! that's ridiculous!
who told you to get a present for the teacher?

my advice to you is to not give your daughter's teacher a present of any kind, keep you're money for yourself and your family, spending how much would a decent wine and a box of chocolates cost? the answer alot, and what has this teacher done to deserve these gifts? **** all

my younger sisters, are still in primary school and there teacher seems to expect a present when the summer holidays come up AND for christmas, and this particular teacher is awful at her job my sisters can barly do basic maths sums, because they aren't taught them properly by there teacher

there are plenty of teachers like this going around...so do yourself a favour and don't spend money on this teacher, have a night out instead

His wife did. It's not a like he got a letter from the school demanding a present.

Fratton Fred

Fratton Fred wrote: »

so our teachers can earn their bloated salaries.

Come on teachers are far from highly paid, do you expect people to work a hard job for peanuts? They also pay tax and the USC or are you just ignoring that.

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I'm not whining, I'm raging that I am expected to buy presents for lazy spoilt teachers.

Why are they lazy teaching is a very tough job, it might look easy but its far far from it.

Kevin Duffy

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I'm not whining, I'm raging that I am expected to buy presents for lazy spoilt teachers.

Expected to by your wife. You married her, so quit yer whining.

Caoimhín

Teachers in Ireland are the most over-paid, pampered, greedy clowns.

no1beemerfan

My sister is a primary school teacher and the stuff she gets at easter, summer hols and christmas and even halloween is obscene. Bottles of wine, expensive chocolates even glasswear and pottery!

ColeTrain

Caoimhín wrote: »

Teachers in Ireland are the most over-paid, pampered, greedy clowns.

Kids in Ireland are the most self-indulgent, spoilt, greedy clowns.

Logical Fallacy

karma_ wrote: »

to all those saying this is madness, just stop and realise that these souls have to put up with your brats for 5 days a week and they deserve a bottle of wine at the end of this ordeal.

Yeah, i hate that ****. You enter college, after years of schooling, and then when you are qualified they spring they fact that you have to work with kids on you!

Bastards!

biko

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I have to buy them presents as they **** off on their eight week holiday.

You don't have to but it is a nice thing to do after he/she has been trying to control/raise/educate your kid for 5-6 hours a day for a year or more.

I guess 25 bottles of wine and 25 boxes of chocolate isn't really the best gift in the world either.

Rebel021

You do know its voluntary.
You don't have to give and its the parents who try to out-do other kids gifts
are the 1's to blame.

I'm sure a simple card will suffice.

Edit:

We were asked to make a contribution by the class rep(s) (parent(s) of children in the class)
so it was 1 gift hamper ect but it was up to ourselves to contribute.

Can only imagine what will be said about the parents who didn't as I find most of these reps to be right wagons
and tend to always say "oh we know people don't have as much as before and only contribute if you have it to spare"
Yeah right.. you'll be the talk of the yard if you don't.

Caoimhín

ColeTrain wrote: »

Kids in Ireland are the most self-indulgent, spoilt, greedy clowns.

Id well believe it, i hate the noisy little snot monsters.

o1s1n

Wow OP, talk about scabby. That person just spent the last year looking after and teaching your child every day. The least you can do is buy them a bottle of wine to say thanks.

frag420

allydylan wrote: »

a box of chocolates and a decent bottle of wine?!!! that's ridiculous!
who told you to get a present for the teacher?

my advice to you is to not give your daughter's teacher a present of any kind, keep you're money for yourself and your family, spending how much would a decent wine and a box of chocolates cost? the answer alot, and what has this teacher done to deserve these gifts? **** all

my younger sisters, are still in primary school and there teacher seems to expect a present when the summer holidays come up AND for christmas, and this particular teacher is awful at her job my sisters can barly do basic maths sums, because they aren't taught them properly by there teacher

there are plenty of teachers like this going around...so do yourself a favour and don't spend money on this teacher, have a night out instead

yeah must be the teachers fault your kid cant do maths:rolleyes:. Or maybe you kid does not listen in class eh?

ejmaztec

Wine and chocolates, just the things for a fat alcoholic teacher. The chocolates would need to be handmade, and the wine expensive, or the teacher would be insulted.

o1s1n

ejmaztec wrote: »

The chocolates would need to be handmade

And filled with the tears of children.

Forest Master

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I'm not whining, I'm raging that I am expected to buy presents for lazy spoilt teachers.

Eh, it was your wife who asked you, so why are you getting uppity with the teacher?

And how are teachers lazy & spoilt? And what makes you think they have "inflated salaries"? Pretty ignorant thing to say, IMO. And no, I'm not a teacher - but I consider it a noble profession to deal with that many kids all day & pass on knowledge. And they probably have to deal with hotheaded ignorant parents too...

mike65

The teacher can retire for the summer and then spend a couple of months slumped in a chair quaffing cheap wine and chocolates. Sounds quite good actually.

Its a handy number which some schools are cracking down on.

Forest Master

mike65 wrote: »

Its a handy number

Then do it.

ejmaztec

o1s1n wrote: »

And filled with the tears of children.

...and topped with the blood of their parents.:(

Richard Hillman

Teachers are paid to teach. I would see gifts at the end of the year and xmas would be a thank you for keeping your child safe and giving them life lessons.