Teacher mugs

[AdversePossession]

I heard this yesterday from a neighbour as we chatted briefly - no kids around at the time.

Basically, according to her it seems a thing that teenagers have printed out pictures of their teachers on mugs, and just have them and think its funny. Her DD has one, for example, and finds it hilarious. She did not say whether she had removed it, or talked about it, just that it was a laugh.

Also that, generally, teenagers find it very easy and hilarious to find photos and/or tik toks of their teachers online and do something with them.

That last part I have no problems believing or having versions of like screen shots and manipulations etc - but teacher faces on mugs? Is that really a thing?

I’ve seen kids give their teachers ones with their famous quotes on which I found very funny as some didn’t realise they have these sayings…the famous teacher “errr excuse me”, “Walk on the corridors” or “you’re wasting my time, your time and everybody else’s time” I’ve seen one with a pair of squinting eyes (her teacher stare), massive eyelashes and lipstick which the teacher replied “to be fair that is me” and she burst out laughing…they also clubbed together and bought her the lipstick set she wears which I thought was such a lovely thing to do.

There was also one with a tea towel of every child in the Primary class they taught pulling silly faces. Everywhere this Teacher went on holiday they collected tea towels. They absolutely loved it as it had a picture of their face from a sports day shouting “Yes” mouth open wide, hair all over the place wild eyes looking manic 🤣

Not sure about photos, I loved a cup that had a picture of me decking it into water from a raft team building day with a look of complete horror on my face and the quote ‘shit happens’ on it but I suppose it depends on the type of photo. I remember one school I worked in and a photo was circulating of a group of teacher friends that had been on a Hen do abroad…they had typical fun…the group agreed not to share the pictures on social media due to their roles. So they shared a few sober group shots from the start of the night and that was it. One of the kids (who knew kids from lots of other schools) of the group was going through their Mum’s phone found the worse for wear pictures, and the Y9 child posted it on their social media which got picked up by the school social media parent groups and became deeply unpleasant. I can imagine that child putting faces, manipulating bodies on a mug and being quite nasty with it.

I think your friend may have misunderstood. Kids call photos they have taken without the subject being aware a “mug”. As in mugshot. As a teacher I find this hugely intrusive and inappropriate. Think your neighbour needs to have a word with her daughter and explain the intrusive nature of what she is doing. There is no way she’d do this to any other adult in her life…… imagine her going to a doctors appointment and trying to surreptitiously take a “mug”. Just wouldn’t happen, why should her teachers have this happen to them?

Putting teachers faces on mugs that aren't a funny gift for the teacher is intrusive (even the first isn't really ok as it still requires you to put upload their face to the website).

Looking at a teacher's tik tok I don't think will ever be stopped (I would probably have looked if it were a thing when I was a child), but doing anything with those videos again is not ok. I do think however that teachers (any anyone for that matter) needs to be careful what they put on the internet as that image/video is technically no longer yours, and people are able to do with it as they wish.

DS is a primary school and simply isn’t on social media at all.

Thank you for the replies. The conversation was around teacher's images from social media or elsewhere being found and used/manipulated. This was hilarious for the kids in question, done for a laugh, but malicious intent there too. It was not tea towels, quotes, class photos, or similar, which are understandably meaningful and perhaps officially handled through the school or parents.

The neighbour also did not mean mugshut. She referenced having mugs of teachers: a mug with an image printed on it, and that kids had them and found them hilarious using images found online. The specfic example was a photo that had been found of a science ECT from their linked in profile, and printed on the mug. That's why I asked this question, to understand if this was a wider thing.

Re rocknrollstar - Yes, understandably, and I know various guidelines and rules are in place for the various parties involved in education, more so now than ever.

@AdversePossession It really isn’t on, the way you describe what these teenagers are doing sounds like they are being malicious with these images, such a shame people have to take things too far.