Large end of year teacher/Head teacher gifts

If I saw the same doctor every day for 39 weeks I probably would get them something to say thank you when they finished treating me…

but yes OP those amounts are insane

You do all know that teachers get paid for doing their jobs? Why does anyone need to give anything? I don't tip my Doctor.

Private or state?

Good grief, why? Teachers get paid. Surely raising money for resources makes more sense and would make their jobs easier? Or perhaps raising money to pay them to go on school trips.

That is mad. I organise a collection for our year group (2 teachers and about 4 TAs) and I’d say most parents put in £10-15. I don’t specify an amount as I know some parents have resented being asked for £20 or whatever. Gifts range from £5 to £50! We end up being able to give over £100 per person usually (and obviously I don’t reveal who gave what!)

As a teacher I much preferred this to 30 best teacher mugs or bottles of wine/chocolates.

Ive never known a headteacher specific collection nor the head getting more than class teachers. They are paid more already! Most heads would be embarrassed by this I think.

I'm a teacher and think that's a crazy amount.

I would be so embarrassed if I received such a high amount of vouchers (and it would be more frustrating if it was for somewhere I don't shop than it is when I get a voucher for a tenner that I won't use).

Wow! I work in a school and before I worked there I organised the class collection (choice no expectation at all) and the most we raised was £300 when one year everyone basically put in £10! That was split between the teacher and TAs. The amounts you’re talking are obscene!

That is insane! headteachers get paid enough to then accept a 2k gift!!
we generally do a class collection and anyone who wants to puts in the amount they choose and it gets split between teachers / TA’s. Generally between £200 - £300.

Crikey!
we didn’t have any collections when my dcs were at school except when Ds was in school in Austria- 5 euros per child, 20 in class, 100 euro voucher for teacher.

And there was me thinking there was a cost of living crisis.

Fucking hell those figures are bananas! Where on earth do you live that families can afford such amounts. Presuming your child's class have one teacher and one TA that's £750 for just one class! That's A minimum of £25 per child if there are 30 in the class plus extra for the head. 😮

That seems excessive. At our school we do £10 per child so £300 per class. That money then gets divided between all school staff. 70% divided between class teacher and TA and 30% to head teacher, school admin, pe teacher etc. In the end they all end up with more or less the same amount (as all classes give 30% to the other school staff). Works well for us!

Surely vouchers come under similar rules when it comes to standards of integrity as applied to cash? Seems at least a conflict of interest and to be blurring the lines of professional judgement. Is this a state school? If so this is something that the governors should be made aware of - unless they are a crap board of governors and can't see why this could potentially be an issue.

That is insane. In our school parents chip in £5 a child which gets split between the class teacher and the TA. The head gets nothing. 30 kids in a class so maybe get £150-200. Some parents will give more than £5. So they get £75-100 ish each. Which let’s face it is far more than people in most jobs get

i would have thought teachers and school staff aren’t permitted to accept such large cash gifts as it could be seen as bribery? At least I couldn’t when I worked in education

Wow, these amounts are insane. Aren’t here some kind of guidelines being broken here? I think all of this has got out of hand a bit.