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Original poster

to suggest anybody who gave their kid's teacher home grown vegetables...

157 replies

thisfantasticvoyage · 23/07/2011 09:07

as an end of year present or any of the other pointless shite the Guardian recommended recently is basically...a knobber?

OP posts:
NearlyHeadlessnickelbabe · 23/07/2011 12:33

Chickens - send some to me - I've got a woman who I swear must inject them! I put by a box of 6 for her the other day, and had 4 boxes of 4 on the counter (really must get round to buying some more 6-egg boxes), and she bought them all.
I can't keep up with demand! Shock

issynoko · 23/07/2011 12:35

You're on my wavelength Joric. I thought it was very eco-friendly, a nice bit of compost for the school gardening club to rot down over the summer. Also, it wasn't her usual teacher, who has been off having a hysterectomy. We saw her in the street yesterday and she got a joyous hug and an invitation come for tea. Which would also be some kind of wilted weeds in a playdough marinade.

SiamoFottuti · 23/07/2011 12:36

Eggs for everyone is it Chickens? You never took any in your wheelie suitcase...
Wink

I didn't give the teacher any present this year. I'm mean. Also on the last day of school I had to give 70 quid for next years "voluntary" contribution and thats before I started on the 8o quids worth of textbooks (for a seven year old) and uniform. Presents for teachers just aren't in the budget.

Hulababy · 23/07/2011 12:38

I'd love freshly laid eggs too - I always buy them at the school fair when DD's friends parents bring them in from their chickens. Again, fab present as far as I am concerned.

joric · 23/07/2011 12:51

Issy- I love that! I think that a big thank you and a smile beats any present! The invitation to come for tea - (she's not coming is she?? Wink ) made me laugh!! (That sort of gesture from a 3 year old really shows the teacher how much she is valued!)

thefirstMrsDeVere · 23/07/2011 12:53

When I took DD home after a particularly long and crappy stay in hospital I bought the nurses gifts. instead of chocolates and sweets I bought strawberries and melons and stuff like that from M&S. They were really pleased. It was a hot summer and they got so many sweets (which they also loved) it made a nice change.

I didnt grow them myself though Grin

twinklypearls · 23/07/2011 13:07

My presents this year included a box of veg, homemade jam, eggs, home made cake and some home made jewellery. I loved each of them, as I did the chocolates, flowers and wine. In the past I have been given a partridge, a brace of pheasants and a turkey for Christmas day!

I gave my dd's teachers home made jam, not to make a lifestyle statement but because I could not afford to buy presents. I also know as a teacher it is the kind of present I prefer,

Punkatheart · 23/07/2011 13:15

Yep, people get really excited about eggs. I also bought egg boxes and had labels printed with an illustration. All my four girls lay slightly different coloured eggs - so they do look funky.....Put those in a basket with some egg cups and wine.....

FuzzpigFourFiveSix · 23/07/2011 16:57

My best friends are doing homemade jam/chutney as their wedding favours next year :)

twinklypearls · 23/07/2011 16:58

That is a lovely idea.

Mrsxstitch · 23/07/2011 17:27

That sounds lovely fuzzpig

namechange100 · 23/07/2011 17:30

YABU, a lot of effort goes into home grown veg and I though would be generally well respected even if they dont whip up an exotic goulash

alowVera · 23/07/2011 17:34

That's funny coz the TA in my daughters class got given some strawberries and cucumbers. Hmm

twinklypearls · 23/07/2011 17:44

I don't think there is anything Hmm about that. We gave the TAs jam.

alowVera · 23/07/2011 17:52

It's Hmm to me only because I really hadn't thought about them as end-of-year gifts.

Goblinchild · 23/07/2011 18:07

I'm a teacher and have been for decades. OP, you are a prat, as are those supporting your opinion with unpunctuated, poorly-spelled wofflings.Grin

I hate wine, am very fussy about the chocolate and dislike the majority of smellies and suchlike. Bunches of flowers are already dying.
Fortunately, the majority of parents who give me presents bother to find out what I like before choosing.
Thank you for the potted herbs, the windchimes, the gin, the hand-painted mug and vase, the two book tokens...all the other gifts.
I'd have been delighted with fresh vegetables. Or free-range eggs.
I've got all my cards up in the house as well.

Sharney · 23/07/2011 18:08

Siamo, I know what you mean. My dds teachers (there are 4! 2 job-share teachers and 2 education assistants) received hugs and a thank-you and that is it. This is a little bit because I'm tight but also because as a lot of my friends are teachers and I've heard (over and over) that cards and gifts are a pain in the neck. It's just a whole load of stuff they've got to consume or give away or throw away and they (my friends at least) would rather not have to bother.

Goblinchild · 23/07/2011 18:09

I've been given curry, samosas, naan and home made sweets as well.
Yum.

bigTillyMint · 23/07/2011 18:17

Goblinchild Envy

Goblinchild · 23/07/2011 18:22

I'd just hate for someone who has given me some of those lovely, thoughtful and imaginative presents in the past to be reading this thread and let the OP make her think 'Oh, was I wrong and stupid?'
No you weren't, and when I said 'Thank you, that's fantastic, how kind' that's exactly what I meant.
I have been given crap over the years as well, but other teachers have thought what I was given was great. Bit of redistribution in private sometimes. Especially with wine.

alowVera · 23/07/2011 18:23

Hey, I'm not a prat, I honesty hadn't thought to give something like that as a gift for a teacher. Just call me unoriginal or uneducated.

slug · 23/07/2011 18:28

Teaching in FE you rarely get a present. However, the day after Eid one year a student shyly presented me with a big bag of his Mum's homemade samosas. I admit, I cried. Then I scoffed them all.

Goblinchild · 23/07/2011 18:29

I think the OP was unkind and sneery.

'So fess up. What do you do with them all? Is there some sort of recycling centre? Do you have a deal with Clintons and you can just return them for re-sale?'

I redistribute things I don't want, if I give them to a charity shop I wait until I visit a friend in a different town or city and leave them there.
I use some in class and school, my desk is covered in hand painted pots and mugs with things in.

TimeWasting · 23/07/2011 19:25

I was given a couple of bags of allotment produce last summer and I remember it making my week.

I don't understand the disdain for home-made goods that some people have. Anything home-grown or hand-made is amazing to receive as a gift.

nickschick · 23/07/2011 19:28

thats a nasty op.

Years ago dh worked at a potato factory and whilst sorting new potatoes the machine discarded the tiniest ones - dh was able to put a few pennies in the charity box and bring them home Smile ds took some cold with his lunch to school and his teacher commented how she would like tiny ones too - next day ds took her a bagful she was vv pleased and on collecting ds she asked if i could get the T.A some as she loved them too - the potato factory was owned by the TAs husband Shock.