Gifts for Teacher wtf??

Fratton Fred · 30-06-2011 12:16PM #1

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 · 30-06-2011 12:18PM

Who told you?

fedor.2. · 30-06-2011 12:18PM

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

jester77 · 30-06-2011 12:19PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:20PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:20PM

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

listermint · 30-06-2011 12:20PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:21PM

You could just not get him/her a present?

30-06-2011 12:21PM

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

never in school though

jimthemental · 30-06-2011 12:21PM

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

Fratton Fred · 30-06-2011 12:22PM

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_ · 30-06-2011 12:22PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:22PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:23PM

Teachers should be forced to work over summer.

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

rainbowtrout · 30-06-2011 12:24PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:24PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:25PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:25PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:26PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:27PM

Get her a bottle of buckie and a chomp.

Superbus · 30-06-2011 12:27PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:28PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:29PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:30PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:30PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:32PM

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

flutterflye · 30-06-2011 12:32PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:32PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:33PM

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 · 30-06-2011 12:34PM

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

karma_ · 30-06-2011 12:34PM

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.

Gifts for Teacher wtf??

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