Our eldest lads teacher is getting a big box of whiplash!
The busiest day of the year for crap from Temu and Shein.
Except it’s butler’s chocolates and temu stuff!
Come on where’s the amazon gift cards and bags of cans and one4all vouchers or toastie maker for the staff room?
Remember folks, a bottle of whiskey goes a long way for helping teachers to deal with your hell spawn
Are people actually buying “stuff” these days?
My eldest is in 6th class and it’s never been anything other than a revolut collection to buy a one4all or similar voucher.
GF got a 500 euro voucher for Brown Thomas from all the parents. Not bad!
Sure look I know some parents just give some random tat, and that to be clear is fine as its about at least showing some consideration, but in my experience its usually been fairly organised. Most of mine have gone to the same small primary and secondary so the families locally all have a good idea of what the teachers want and would all chip in for something a bit more significant to show our appreciation. I’d always have my own bring in a gift card anyway because I think it helps cement the idea that my kids might be unholy terrors sometimes but they’ve got a sound da so please have patience.
The eldest daughter is going to a fancy school in the city now and the parents there coordinate the whole thing like a corporate event, they had meetings about it and everything. Still sending her in with a one4all voucher though.
Quick to take it but very slow to give it. If you know you know.
*Primary school teachers.
We did it for the money
Missus used to work in a montessori. Jesus tne about of stuff she used to come home with at Christmas.
One year there was a lady that got all six staff a bottle of Hendricks each!
I’m a teacher and have literally no idea what this means.
couldn’t think of a gift for our childminder. cold hard cash of €100 did the job, the best voucher there is
My teacher wife works in a deis school full of traveller, inner city kids and immigrants. This week one of the little shits bit her on the arm when she tried to stop him from kicking her. She had the nerve to ask him to tidy up before home time.
So she is getting a jab and being monitored over the coming weeks by her GP. So that’s a nice Xmas gift, that on top of the nits/head lice she got twice this year. And the other assaults by the kids. And the fighting parents at the school gates. And the regular Gardai visits.
But yeah, all teachers have it great. Best job ever 👍
They deserve it. Little kids in the run up to Christmas as the most crazy hooligans. It’s a fun time but you’re running on Christmas cheer and fumes. By th time you get home to your own family for the holidays you’re wrecked.
We just give €10 or €20 each. Gives the teacher €250 or €300 cash. We gave up on One4All. They are so restrictive and in Tesco you have to have physical card or some shite they told me one day. I get SNAs and resource teacher separately as not everyone’s kids go to resource class or have SNA support
Ah yes. The annual Christmas haul of Yankee candles, fake designer purses and Penneys bath bombs. I have the best-teacher-ever mugs and stuff to look forward to in June.
I don’t mean to sound in anyway ungrateful here but we get way too much of things we neither expect nor want when we know families have enough ends to meet this time of year.
The best presents I’ve received are hand-made cards from children or small personalised Christmas decorations, also hand-made.
As the sole primary teacher in my friend group, I’m always asked what to get Miss so-and-so and when I say nothing, I’m met with disbelief as there’s a sense that the children can’t show up empty-handed on the last day of term.
The many teachers and SNAs I know and worked with expect nothing. In my school, we continously send the message that Christmas and end-of-year presents are not necessary at all but the parents won’t listen.
And, I hate to break it to you, but much of what teachers get goes to the local charity shop. I’d say the Yankee candle I got c. 2019 is on it’s 6th re-gift cycle today.
We just pooled in together to get our kids teacher one decent gift – BTs voucher this year. A few gave extra bits personally like chocolates as well. We pooled in for afterschool teachers and SNAs as well. Better to get one decent gift than loads of stuff you may not even really want – even if you love candles, unless you’re prepping for a papal funeral, it might be abit much!
I used to love unwrapping my mums presents from kids. Was always shite though that she never used
I think it’s great that the teachers get something from the kids but *my god* the parents Whatsapp groups to organize something are the absolute worst part of being an adult.
In fairness they have to buy a lot of supplies out of pocket for the year, so they deserve it.
And all the lollipop ladies and men getting hats and gloves
Preschool teacher here, I have a bottle of wine for each day of the holidays now.. much appricated after the term we had..
leaving with 30 “BEST TEACHER” mugs to add to their ever growing collection.
Why are teachers getting gifts?
Not if you work in a DEIS setting. You get nothing from many parents because many can’t afford it and to be honest, parents shouldn’t be giving big presents anyway. Teacher here.
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Our eldest lads teacher is getting a big box of whiplash!
The busiest day of the year for crap from Temu and Shein.
Except it’s butler’s chocolates and temu stuff!
Come on where’s the amazon gift cards and bags of cans and one4all vouchers or toastie maker for the staff room?
Remember folks, a bottle of whiskey goes a long way for helping teachers to deal with your hell spawn
Are people actually buying “stuff” these days?
My eldest is in 6th class and it’s never been anything other than a revolut collection to buy a one4all or similar voucher.
GF got a 500 euro voucher for Brown Thomas from all the parents. Not bad!
Sure look I know some parents just give some random tat, and that to be clear is fine as its about at least showing some consideration, but in my experience its usually been fairly organised. Most of mine have gone to the same small primary and secondary so the families locally all have a good idea of what the teachers want and would all chip in for something a bit more significant to show our appreciation. I’d always have my own bring in a gift card anyway because I think it helps cement the idea that my kids might be unholy terrors sometimes but they’ve got a sound da so please have patience.
The eldest daughter is going to a fancy school in the city now and the parents there coordinate the whole thing like a corporate event, they had meetings about it and everything. Still sending her in with a one4all voucher though.
Quick to take it but very slow to give it. If you know you know.
*Primary school teachers.
We did it for the money
Missus used to work in a montessori. Jesus tne about of stuff she used to come home with at Christmas.
One year there was a lady that got all six staff a bottle of Hendricks each!
I’m a teacher and have literally no idea what this means.
couldn’t think of a gift for our childminder. cold hard cash of €100 did the job, the best voucher there is
My teacher wife works in a deis school full of traveller, inner city kids and immigrants. This week one of the little shits bit her on the arm when she tried to stop him from kicking her. She had the nerve to ask him to tidy up before home time.
So she is getting a jab and being monitored over the coming weeks by her GP. So that’s a nice Xmas gift, that on top of the nits/head lice she got twice this year. And the other assaults by the kids. And the fighting parents at the school gates. And the regular Gardai visits.
But yeah, all teachers have it great. Best job ever 👍
They deserve it. Little kids in the run up to Christmas as the most crazy hooligans. It’s a fun time but you’re running on Christmas cheer and fumes. By th time you get home to your own family for the holidays you’re wrecked.
We just give €10 or €20 each. Gives the teacher €250 or €300 cash. We gave up on One4All. They are so restrictive and in Tesco you have to have physical card or some shite they told me one day. I get SNAs and resource teacher separately as not everyone’s kids go to resource class or have SNA support
Ah yes. The annual Christmas haul of Yankee candles, fake designer purses and Penneys bath bombs. I have the best-teacher-ever mugs and stuff to look forward to in June.
I don’t mean to sound in anyway ungrateful here but we get way too much of things we neither expect nor want when we know families have enough ends to meet this time of year.
The best presents I’ve received are hand-made cards from children or small personalised Christmas decorations, also hand-made.
As the sole primary teacher in my friend group, I’m always asked what to get Miss so-and-so and when I say nothing, I’m met with disbelief as there’s a sense that the children can’t show up empty-handed on the last day of term.
The many teachers and SNAs I know and worked with expect nothing. In my school, we continously send the message that Christmas and end-of-year presents are not necessary at all but the parents won’t listen.
And, I hate to break it to you, but much of what teachers get goes to the local charity shop. I’d say the Yankee candle I got c. 2019 is on it’s 6th re-gift cycle today.
We just pooled in together to get our kids teacher one decent gift – BTs voucher this year. A few gave extra bits personally like chocolates as well. We pooled in for afterschool teachers and SNAs as well. Better to get one decent gift than loads of stuff you may not even really want – even if you love candles, unless you’re prepping for a papal funeral, it might be abit much!
I used to love unwrapping my mums presents from kids. Was always shite though that she never used
I think it’s great that the teachers get something from the kids but *my god* the parents Whatsapp groups to organize something are the absolute worst part of being an adult.
In fairness they have to buy a lot of supplies out of pocket for the year, so they deserve it.
And all the lollipop ladies and men getting hats and gloves
Preschool teacher here, I have a bottle of wine for each day of the holidays now.. much appricated after the term we had..
leaving with 30 “BEST TEACHER” mugs to add to their ever growing collection.
Why are teachers getting gifts?
Not if you work in a DEIS setting. You get nothing from many parents because many can’t afford it and to be honest, parents shouldn’t be giving big presents anyway. Teacher here.
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