To think giving your DCs teacher alcohol or a brace of pheasants (!) is just plain weird?

[AgentZigzag]

They're hardly gifts that a child would choose.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers found that 93% of teachers received gifts from their pupils, which also included a Tiffany bracelet and a Mulberry handbag! Do you recon they kept them?

The ATL warns the gift giving may be getting a bit competative, although who the person who gave the brace of pheasants was trying to compete with is anybodys guess

It's nice to see the teachers still prefer handmade gifts and cards, and how lovely is the DC who ate half their choc bar and thought to share the rest with their teacher

Heck, gibbs jnr has only ever given a handmade card to the teacher and thats only if he liked them, if he didn't like them very much they got bugger all

Orm - they can always get recycled as raffle prizes for the school fayre/fete, do you think the DC or their parents would notice?? They might be unlucky enough to get them back.

I've done that with christmas present before now. They get lovingly repackaged with nice paper and give to teachers But our favourite teachers get wine

Ds had a top teacher a few years ago, he liked music so we gave him a theatre voucher when ds left so he could put it towards taking his children to see a play/he could see a concert. I probably wouldn't do it again though.
We normally give them wine/chocolate unless they don't drink or eat chocolate (you can learn alot when you chat to them), we gave one teacher a scrap book (she was leaving at the end of the year), ds wrote a letter telling her how fab she was and started the scrap book off, she was going travelling so maybe she's used it to keep pictures of her adventures.

It works both ways as well, I just met up with DH in Tesco and he was buying lots of bright coloured pencils with little pompom toppers designed to look like easter chicks and little lambs. Obviously if he bought them wine and pheasants it would clearly be wrong.

That's true lostinwales, I'd forgotten that DD1 has had little presents from her teachers in the past, like a little knitted angel at Christmas and small easter eggs at Easter, which I thought was very thoughtful.

That'd be great if they were given wine, having no use for it they'd have to pass it on to us

Ha -the reaction in DD's school would be "not more bloody pheasant"

(v rural).

(we have a man to pluck ours. Doesn't everybody?)

Y'see the world is awash with presents which noonoe wants but which just get passed from one person to the next.
Consider the trillions of wicker baskets of nasty Body Shop smellies doomed to drift from school fair to old folks' home tombola.

I would love to tell everyone in my life

'Please. Do not give me anything. Ever. I am trying to divest my house of unwanted crap, not add to it. And no,I wouldn't drink a bottle of Blossom Hill if it were the last alcoholic beverage on earth.'

My sister is a teacher and once got some weedkiller as a present. She lived in a gardenless flat at the time.

It was my daughter's last day in nursery school today. She gave her teacher and the TA's a homemade felt bookmark each, plus a small chocolate plaque with Thank You iced on each.

I think they would have looked at me a little oddly if I'd taken in pheasants...