Teacher gifts: No mugs and no ornaments!

[Anonymous]

I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

[Anonymous]

Does my horse have to be already dead to join in on this conversation, or do we beat it to death afterward?
Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is a 25 dollar amazon gift card appropriate ?

I think so. That's what I do in ES, in addition to contributing to the class fund. Although $25 technically exceeds the MCPS gift limit (per), it's Amazon's lowest denomination so I think it's okay. Beginning in MS, I give $10 gift cards since there are so many teachers and I don't feel obligated to in the case of any who are really checked out. For the smaller gifts I ask my kids to pay attention to whether their teachers are drinking Starbucks, Dunkin', or other. They usually know!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

We brought a big bag of gifts for the L&D nurses. I guess they don’t need them since they didn’t resuscitate anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

I'm sorry you're bitter and angry but getting mad that other professionals receive gifts at the holidays is nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

Are you going to help this same patient for 9 months? If you did you would probably get a present.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

That’s a really nice thing you did as part of your profession. But it’s also a checkout line. You don’t work with the same patients daily for 10 months out of the year or establish meaningful relationships with them and their families. If you did, I’m sure you’d get gifts. Your job and a teacher’s jobs are very different in terms of relationships up building, closeness and the amount of guidance you provide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

Yes, you are right. Instead of being with their kids in the ICU they should run out and buy you a present. Most professions don't receive gifts. I only do teacher gifts at the holidays and teacher appreciation but our teacher appreciation is out of control with the PTA demanding donations to them and daily gifts for teachers, including specials. I wouldn't think a nurse would get a gift, except many after but those poor parents have far greater things to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

I'm sorry you're bitter and angry but getting mad that other professionals receive gifts at the holidays is nonsense.

Exactly! Like seriously, who’d begrudge a teacher gifts?! They save lives in different ways but equally as meaningful. Hell, after ‘they’ brought the patient back, Nurse Smiley sent him on his way never to be heard from again. She’s not impacting his life in a meaningful way after coding it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

That’s a really nice thing you did as part of your profession. But it’s also a checkout line. You don’t work with the same patients daily for 10 months out of the year or establish meaningful relationships with them and their families. If you did, I’m sure you’d get gifts. Your job and a teacher’s jobs are very different in terms of relationships up building, closeness and the amount of guidance you provide.

+1

We give gifts to the nurses we can recall. However, in the midst of a few highly traumatic days many patients and their loved ones might not actually be able to distinguish you from the other nurses. They also might be busy with try to arrange for continued care or simply trying to recover emotionally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you give me an ornament for Christmas, it will occupy a place on my tree every year. And I will remember the child who gave it to me. Bonus if it’s hand made. If you give me homemade treats, I will happily eat them. I might share them with my family if there are any left. If you make me a card, it will hang on my refrigerator for weeks. If you give me a candle or lotion or a mug, I will be so thankful you took the time to go shopping for me. Literally every teacher friend I know feels the same. I’m not sure who these bitter dcum teachers are. But they shouldn’t be in the classroom.

I’m a Jewish former teacher. Should I hang ornaments on a tree when I don’t have one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

I'm sorry you're bitter and angry but getting mad that other professionals receive gifts at the holidays is nonsense.

I agree. It's super weird. But, it's actually kind of weird that none of the patients' families got you anything for Christmas. One of my family members was in an inpatient recovery clinic over the holidays last year and I felt like all we did was bring gifts to the nurses there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you give me an ornament for Christmas, it will occupy a place on my tree every year. And I will remember the child who gave it to me. Bonus if it’s hand made. If you give me homemade treats, I will happily eat them. I might share them with my family if there are any left. If you make me a card, it will hang on my refrigerator for weeks. If you give me a candle or lotion or a mug, I will be so thankful you took the time to go shopping for me. Literally every teacher friend I know feels the same. I’m not sure who these bitter dcum teachers are. But they shouldn’t be in the classroom.

I’m a Jewish former teacher. Should I hang ornaments on a tree when I don’t have one?

Well...I mean, you could make a little ornamental "tree" or even a necklace stand specifically for the purpose of displaying these ornaments. After all, they were given with LOVE to you because you meant something special to the child and/or the family. Not because they were trying to convert you. So yeah. I'd say you could still appreciate the ornament without adopting the "Christmas" tradition of a tree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ICU nurse and coded a patient at work last night, and we got them back. You know what gifts we might get?! Zero. Teachers don’t need gifts, they get paid to take care of your child.

Yes, you are right. Instead of being with their kids in the ICU they should run out and buy you a present. Most professions don't receive gifts. I only do teacher gifts at the holidays and teacher appreciation but our teacher appreciation is out of control with the PTA demanding donations to them and daily gifts for teachers, including specials. I wouldn't think a nurse would get a gift, except many after but those poor parents have far greater things to worry about.

Sorry I just spit out the water I was drinking with the image of a PTA "demanding" donations. Seriously funny how some of you internalize guilt. It's just an "ask"...you can trash the email and never think on it again and be fine if it's so offensive to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you give me an ornament for Christmas, it will occupy a place on my tree every year. And I will remember the child who gave it to me. Bonus if it’s hand made. If you give me homemade treats, I will happily eat them. I might share them with my family if there are any left. If you make me a card, it will hang on my refrigerator for weeks. If you give me a candle or lotion or a mug, I will be so thankful you took the time to go shopping for me. Literally every teacher friend I know feels the same. I’m not sure who these bitter dcum teachers are. But they shouldn’t be in the classroom.

I’m a Jewish former teacher. Should I hang ornaments on a tree when I don’t have one?

No. Definitely pull them out and scowl at them every year because the kids didn't get you were Jewish and just assumed their lovely teacher would like this ornament they picked out.