To think however much a teacher dislkes their colletion of best teacher mugs they shouldh't

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Give them to the charity shop nearest the school with the packaging and more importantly all the little messages written by the children still on them - they were packs with to / from panels on the side

I noticed them this morning looking for a coat for DD. 10 mugs all with little messages eg - to Mrs X thank you for being a great teacher love X

DDs in that teachers class this year and while I don't give mugs as I don't like them it puts me off buying her anything at all I usually give teachers wine

Show her the backs and fronts of your hands when you hand the brownies over ? I don't know tbh, I can see both sides but it's a shame when people buy ingredients and make the effort.

There you go then, it seems hygiene is the least of the teachers worries

I LOVE mamamibbo's suggestion. i burst out laughing! yes, buy them and give them to her for christmas LOL!

The teachers I know like getting wine and chocolate. Mugs, ornaments, bath foam sets etc gets charityshopped. Yes, it's sad to see all of them in a shop and perhaps they should be donated in a town further away in case the pupils who bought them see them and get but you can't be that surprised when they're not kept.

Mamamibbo lol!!

Prosecco from DS this year.

Ooh expat pot is vegan isn't it? or maybe not....

Oh that's awful. I got a LOT of presents I wasn't keen on when I was a teacher, but I was grateful for each one because someone had bothered to get me something and hopefully thought I was a good enough teacher to warrant one! Even if I had donated something to a charity shop, I would def have taken the label off.

Ooh what's the worst thing you ever got Cosmic?

Yes Whistling my DC would have been upset.

I don't have a problem with a teacher donating a stack of unwanted 'Best Teacher' mugs (imagine if every child in the class bought the teacher one?) - provided that they remove any labels or suchlike that identify the teacher and child. It could upset a child if they came across such clear evidence that the teacher didn't like their gift.

Although I really don't understand why people give teachers presents like mugs, photo frames, etc, with the word 'teacher' all over them. What's wrong with chocs / wine? Getting duplicate boxes of chocolates / bottles of wine is rarely a problem.

I deliver a whole carrier bag full of ornaments, mugs, etc to the charity shop every July and every January, all stuff that has been given by children to DH. It's not that he's ungrateful - far from it - it's just that none of this stuff is any use to us whatsoever, a lot of it is downright hideous, and we don't have room to store it. He keeps a lot of the cards with nice messages/pictures etc. A pupil painted a picture of him 12 years ago and it is still hanging up in our kitchen.

We would never give anything away that was easily recognisable, or had his name or a pupil's on it. That's very tactless indeed.

Sorry for hijack but do all children buy their teachers presents at Christmas and at the end of the school year? is it a relatively new thing?

I personally don't think the teacher was bu for giving the unwanted mugs to a charity shop. They should have removed the tags though that's a little harsh. You must buy them and return them as that would be hilarious!

We have always done it itsatrap. Since 2003.

Yy buy them all back. I can understand charity shopping them but take the labels off first!

I would like to think that the charity shop people would have thought to take the labels off wouldn't they?

This thread proving exactly why I think the whole 'giving teachers a present' at the end of the year malarkey is the biggest load of crap ever, and why I don't bother.

I actually had a 'friend' who taught at a posh private school in Hampstead who went absolutely nuts when a child bought her a lavender gift set ('As if I would wear things that smell of lavender') to the point where she said it would affect how she treated her.

She thought the mother had picked it and should have got her something better. Personally OI though t the child had probably picked it out because the packaging was pretty and didn't know lavender was out of fashion. Ungrateful cow.

I don't do Christmas presents itsatrap. I may buy something if dc saw something small and wanted to buy it for their teacher but generally I don't buy them anything. Dc write them a card.

Ds announced at the weekend that his teacher didn't want chocolates for Christmas as she had far too many last year. Dh and I raised our eyebrows at that one!!!!!!!!! Fancy telling the children what you don't want.

Mind you quite tempted to mention that I really love wine when teaching tonight - red wine at that!!!!!!!!!

I am a teacher and that is terrible! I have kept everything my kids have ever given me, the stuff with 'best teacher' is proudly on display on a shelf in my classroom!

'Ooh expat pot is vegan isn't it? or maybe not.... '

This shit was homegrown by one of the students who was very ethically-minded :o. He was generous, too. If he had a surplus of bud, he gave it out as presents, wrapped in a box with a ribbon, even.

expat or maybe

In fairness, I don't blame a teacher for not wanting to eat stuff made by a child who isn't her own. I wouldn't want to do that either and I think a lot of people would feel a bit reluctant.

I can understand not wanting to keep a collection of mugs with 'best teacher' written on them but donating them to a local charity shop is a bit tactless and leaving the labels on was downright careless/stupid.

Obviously they shouldn't have given them to the charity shop with the labels on but no sane person would expect a primary school teacher to keep them - my friend has 28 mugs/frames after only 3 years of teaching ! She decided to keep them all in the classroom on a high shelf so the children could see them.

And I'd never eat kid food

My son bought his class teaching assistant a 'best teacher' version of one of those insulated mug thingies in July. It was crap, truly, but he knew she always used one on the way to and from school. She thought it was hilarious and uses it most days. Usually when she's stuck in the resource room wrangling craft paper:o