Gifts for Teacher wtf??

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 wrote: »

Its a handy number

Then do it.

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.

Fratton Fred wrote: »

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

Yeah, god forbid they might teach them not to be such a moaning tight-arse!

mike65 wrote: »

What? demand presents from children? I wonder does "miss" keep a notebook with marks against those who's parents take a stand or shop at Lidl?

..or declares the value of the gifts when she's completing her tax return.

Giving gifts to teachers is banned in my kids school.

I completely disagree with giving gifts though - not in a million years would I give a teacher a gift for doing their job - I'm already expected to fork out for renovations to the school and get hit up about every 2 weeks for something else.

We haven't given the teacher a present from this house since my son started school (he's had the same teacher for the past two years) and its only particularly because I feel she doesn't deserve it, she's not very nice, sits eating sweets and drinking coke in front of the children in class, and is overall a fairly useless teacher who shouts at the children all the time etc etc etc...I could go on forever.

I do think if I had not such an objection to her though that I would be shamed into it seeing all the other OTT gifts coming in on the last day. I don't see them giving any of them back though......

How does every forum that even mentions a teacher turn into a ridiculous debate about their holidays, pay etc? Its such a joke. If you wanted those kind of holidays you should have done teaching. I'm a trainee teacher doing a postgraduate degree in primary teaching. I spent 4 years studying law only to realise that it wasn't for me. Now I'm not in a great position to be getting any sort of permanent job anytime soon an even when I do actually get a job the money isn't great. It's enough to live off and that's pretty much it. I would have been on an awful lot more if I had stayed with the law firm that I was with. But I didn't....and I'm not bitching and moaning about it either. I will be happy with whatever it is I get. It was my decision. The same way it was your decision to do something besides teaching. So stop whining about the holidays that they get or the pay that they get because as far as I can see teaching the children is the easy bit. It's the parents like the OP who are a massive pain in the arse. It's a tough job...but somebody has to do it. So why don't you? Instead of coming on here and whinging about something that you didn't even have to do. The teacher didn't ask you to buy her anything....so grow a pair...and don't buy her anything!