Teachers Gifts

shillelagh · 26-03-2010, 14:25

Theres a piece on the bbc website about parents and kids giving their teachers gifts .. ok a card or bottle of wine or flowers or chocolates thats ok .. but tickets for Test cricket or tickets for the opera isnt that going a bit over the top.

BBC News - Teacher presents 'competitive', says union

I cant remember ever once giving presents to my teachers .. i might have done but cant remember going into school with a bottle of wine or choccies .. ok the teachers may not have got contents they might have got the bottle .. empty or an empty box of choccies

if i'd have been taking them into school in my teenage years ..

So what do you think ... teachers getting gifts like a bottle of wine or box of choccies ok .. or do you think tickets for the test cricket a bit too much or should teachers not get anything at all. After all they are doing their job .. and getting paid for it .. so why should their pupils bring them a box of choccies to say thank you ..

andrewb · 26-03-2010, 14:28

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Theres a piece on the bbc website about parents and kids giving their teachers gifts .. ok a card or bottle of wine or flowers or chocolates thats ok .. but tickets for Test cricket or tickets for the opera isnt that going a bit over the top.

BBC News - Teacher presents 'competitive', says union

I cant remember ever once giving presents to my teachers .. i might have done but cant remember going into school with a bottle of wine or choccies .. ok the teachers may not have got contents they might have got the bottle .. empty or an empty box of choccies

if i'd have been taking them into school in my teenage years ..

So what do you think ... teachers getting gifts like a bottle of wine or box of choccies ok .. or do you think tickets for the test cricket a bit too much or should teachers not get anything at all. After all they are doing their job .. and getting paid for it .. so why should their pupils bring them a box of choccies to say thank you ..

I've given choccies to teachers that were particularly good before. Think parents (which it must be) buying test cricket tickets and the like is way over the top.

turkishdelight · 26-03-2010, 14:36

Some teachers i guess go the extra mile and give support and encouragement.I will be buying my lectures presents at the end of term, just to show my personal appreciation I did the same when i was at school.

jaysay · 26-03-2010, 15:45

Sheds a new light on Apple for the teacher don't it

cashman · 26-03-2010, 15:48

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Sheds a new light on Apple for the teacher don't it

nah it just shows who's a crawler n who aint, a teacher is a job end of, which is a decent salary. why treat em differant than other workers.

Wynonie Harris · 26-03-2010, 15:48

Presents for teachers??...strictly for swots and softy Walters!

katex · 26-03-2010, 15:52

Feel fairly confident that the teachers themselves are not expecting anything and probably embarrassed by some of these gifts you mention Shill. Think they would more appreciate a letter or card thanking them for adding to Little Johnnie's education, etc.

ossy kid · 26-03-2010, 15:58

It,s not the kids who send the pressies, it,s the parents who want special attention for their kids. I can imagine the gift I might have got to take back in the 50s- a note from my dad saying "If he gets cheeky, give him a smack round the earhole".

cashman · 26-03-2010, 15:58

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Originally Posted by katex

Feel fairly confident that the teachers themselves are not expecting anything and probably embarrassed by some of these gifts you mention Shill. Think they would more appreciate a letter or card thanking them for adding to Little Johnnie's education, etc.

agree owt more is a case of "Pass The Sickbag"

garinda · 26-03-2010, 16:42

The teachers always used to present my parents with gifts galore, at the end of a school year.

To thank them for allowing them to teach me.

DaveinGermany · 26-03-2010, 16:50

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Originally Posted by garinda

The teachers always used to present my parents with gifts galore, at the end of a school year.

To thank them for allowing them to teach me.

In a word "Irredeemable" but funny

Some of them should be getting sacked, let alone Pressies.

jaysay · 27-03-2010, 10:15

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Presents for teachers??...strictly for swots and softy Walters!

I like my teachers Wyn, but they never got a flaming apple off me

jaysay · 27-03-2010, 10:17

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Originally Posted by ossy kid

It,s not the kids who send the pressies, it,s the parents who want special attention for their kids. I can imagine the gift I might have got to take back in the 50s- a note from my dad saying "If he gets cheeky, give him a smack round the earhole".

Those were the days ossy kid, wouldn't do any harm to bring them back, but it will never happen whilst we have wall to wall dogooders

MargaretR · 27-03-2010, 12:51

This practice stinks of bribery.
It is not permissable for frontline civil servants to accept gifts, so teachers shouldn't either.

cashman · 27-03-2010, 12:54

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

This practice stinks of bribery.
It is not permissable for frontline civil servants to accept gifts, so teachers shouldn't either.

agree entirely, people of that ilk are no good to nobody imho.