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do you buy teachers that are bats end of term pressies?

14 replies

Bananaknickers · 11/07/2006 13:41

Don't want dd to feel left out when they all give their gifts ,but I can't stand the old bat.She has been horrible all year long.

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WigWamBam · 11/07/2006 13:42

I wouldn't - unless dd wanted to give her something. Luckily dd's teacher this year has been super.

puff · 11/07/2006 13:43

lol

don't bother - it's not in the rules to buy one

JackieNo · 11/07/2006 13:43

Get her something really horrible? An ornament, or something?

MrsBadger · 11/07/2006 13:44

I suggest a nasty ceramic otter. That'll serve her right.

southeastastra · 11/07/2006 20:16

hee hee this is funny, why an otter?

CaptainFlameSparrow · 11/07/2006 20:24

a dead plant?

Oooh, maybe that is what the bat was originally created for???

fattiemumma · 11/07/2006 20:28

if DD wants to get her something then just buy the most horrid tacky thing you can find.
dont see why every teacher should get one just for doing their job though.

DS's teacher is newly qualified and considering DS is such a handfull (ASD) she has been amazing this year so she will be getting a lovely bottle of wine with a fantastic teacher keyfob hanging from it...and a picture of DS riding a scooter....something SHE taught him to do!

SSSandy · 11/07/2006 20:36

a single flower - yellow rose or something, or maybe just a card if dd wants to give her something

Adorabelle · 11/07/2006 21:07

Ask your dd if she would like to buy her teacher
a gift.

If she doesn't then hey presto you saved yourself
some cash.

wangle99 · 11/07/2006 22:04

NO!

DD had a horrid teacher and I refused point blank to buy her anything. Tempted to get voodoo doll and stick pins in lol.

expatinscotland · 11/07/2006 22:05

I'd regift her something I didn't like.

bayleaf · 11/07/2006 22:13

Definitely give something horrible!
Mind you I'm a teacher and I regularly get things that are horrid - I put it down to working class 11 year olds having crap taste - but maybe their parents just think I'm horrid!!!!

notagrannyyet · 11/07/2006 22:30

IMO buying a present for child's teacher is quite a new thing. My eldest are now in their 20's and it certainly wasn't the norm when they were in primary school.The youngest 2 have said they want to make a card for their teacher and that's fine, but I don't intend to buy gifts. I did however contribute to the collection for the teacher who is leaving at the end of this term.

JanH · 11/07/2006 22:45

I specifically didn't buy pressies for 2 of DS2's teachers who were utter bats (Y3 and Y4).

Bought them for all the others though, and for all the classroom assistants too.

nagy, my older ones are also in their 20s and it had started up here when the eldest was in Y3 (as it wasn't called then - was bottom juniors, lol). I resisted that year, and she wrote a nice letter to her teacher to say thanks for a great year, but it was all downhill after that.

And...I have an old friend who first taught in a primary school in Soho (the primary school in Soho in fact) in 1973 and she used to get fantastic presents, at Christmas and end-of-year, from the kids from all the restaurants - maybe it's all her fault?

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