to feel pressured to buy all my dd teachers amazing end of term presents?

Glad I stumbled across this thread, DD has left preschool today and I have seen quite a few mums bearing lost of gifts !
We just sent a simple card with a really nice message in it - thanks to the last few replies for making me feel better as I did feel a bit of a scrooge !!

well, my dd (not quite 5) wrote on a big bit of paper "FANG YU MISIS X FO BEIN MI TISH" = "Thank you Mrs X for being my teacher" and it had a little picture of dd and Mrs X. And personally if I was her teacher I would have been thrilled with that.

My dp is a teacher and his best 'gifts' have always been the homemade cards, or cards with nice messages from the student rather than actual presents.

my DS made an exploding box card (well I made the box & he decorated it)
it was empty though
just thought she didnt need another box of chocs so thought the card idea was ok - she can bin it if she wants

I teach inner city secondary - usually quite deprived areas. In my whole career I have had:

1 bottle wine from extremely embarrassed boy whose parents had sent him in with it regardless of the fact that he couldn't stand me

1 box roses

3 pictures drawn by Y7 children

1 box ferrero rocher

Best thing I ever got was a leaving card signed by entire class of bottom set (climbing the walls crazy) year 9 boys; made me realise what an awful time they must have as I'd thought all I ever did was shout at them, but apparently my lessons were pretty pleasant compared with what they experienced in an average day.

who was it n nutty

My mum once brought a gift for me to give to my secondary school form teacher. I was sooooooo embrarrased, as non of the other kids had taken a present in. Anyway, they were theses sugared jelly things, and so I ate them LOL.

I don't understand when and where this started. When i was at school (many years ago) we didn't buy gifts for the teachers, if anything we got a small gift (lolly) from them.

I also wonder if they report them as a taxable benifit (sorry accountant in me).

I will not be joining in this custom.

I think the jar of jam is a bloody lovely idea.
I would treasure that and feel sentimental as i washed the label off.

I don't think it makes any difference whether it is a Tesco kit , but I do agree that these things should only be inflicted on doting relatives.

moondog I was planning on a jar of jam made by me from fruit picked by DS (well all of us). It will be a reused jar and I will get DS to make a label. But will not expect the teacher to hang on to his label for all eternity.

OK. We will have to agree to differ, I guess. Like I said, I was grateful to receive anything. I'm not saying I liked everything but not everybody has the same taste.

No it's not Kneazle.
When what was a homemade idea is appropriated by huge supermarket chains,then something is wrong and it's more wrong stillll if people think the sentiment is the same.

I think as parents we should all get a reality check and face the fact that no,most other adults do not want a mug/mousemat/coaster/calendar featuring their kid's gurning mug or artwork.

One of my friends gave me a picture of her kid in a frame!! I was astounded by her presumptuousness.

bet teachers do carboot sales in the summer hols to get rid of all the stuff
i used to be a nursery nurse and parents always came with expensive chocs and biscuits but i'm a simple girl and would rather have a roses choc than a thorntons so i ended up with stacks of chocs that my sil very lovinly stoffed

Sorry, moondog. Didn't mean to offend. I still use a mug that was painted for me by a child 6 years ago. Admittedly it didn't come from Tesco but the sentiment is the same.

moondog please tell me you are not a teacher

nutty

Well I am using a collection of gifts given to me by wel meaning eldery relatives, which I will never ever use, with a couple of gifts thrown in from my mum for the same reasons

God,cannot think of anything worse than a grim kit mug from fucking Tesco painted by someone's brat.

I agree that there should be no pressure to get a gift. I used to be a teacher and would gratefully accept anything but never expect anything. I certainly never made a show of opening things like a lot of teachers do. I would wait until break time and if the children wanted to be there when I opened their present they could stay in for a couple of minutes.

Lol dmo, I wondered that today? jesus how many different teachers would we be buying for. I certainly don't remember my parents sending me in with rakes of gifts when I was in high school though.

The teachers at our school will be turning up with their wheelbarrows tomorrow to cart all the lovely pressies home.