Teachers and gifts-- it's just too much

[Anonymous]

Our public school teachers make more than I do as a college professor. they also get a pension and yet they ask for gifts from me. why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public school teachers make more than I do as a college professor. they also get a pension and yet they ask for gifts from me. why?

I'm a veteran teacher, and I've never once asked a child or a family for a gift, unless you count telling the preschoolers at the play doh table "Ooooh, are those cookies for me? Can I have a bite?"

I'm also a parent of high school students, and I've never once been asked for a gift from a teacher.

Are teachers really hitting you up for gifts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public school teachers make more than I do as a college professor. they also get a pension and yet they ask for gifts from me. why?

What is your salary and how many hours do you teach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our public school teachers make more than I do as a college professor. they also get a pension and yet they ask for gifts from me. why?

You had a choice in your profession, presumably. You chose to be a college professor.

That said, I've been an elementary teacher for a decade and have never heard of one teacher who asks for any kind of gift. Is a handmade card or letter considered a gift? If so, I love to get those. I keep them in a file and take them out when I've had an especially tough day and question why I continue to do this pretty thankless job.

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I don't owe you anything? You set up a fund dedicated to gifting yourself at the end of the year. So I do owe you something.

18.44 here. are you saying that the teacher sets up a fund for the teacher's gift? that would be inappropriate IMO, but it definitely does not happen at our DCPS. all gifts are the initiative of the parents. class parents usually organize it, contact other parents, gather the money, get a card or something for the teacher. and the gift is given on behalf of the class, even if not everybody contributed and usually parents give different amounts. we have been at our DCPS 6 years now and each year this is how the gifts were handled

I have never heard of this. Typically, when a PTA recommend such a fund it was because some room moms go over board the years before and the school wants to reign it in to a reasonable amount. Teachers are in this profession because they love it. I appreciate that and am willing to contribute to the gift fund.

My resentment is all those projects that requires parental involvement. I hate projects.

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So... don't participate. Really, what a weird thing to get riled up about.


I'm not riled. Just tired of it. I need a lawyer appreciation day! Someone get me a Starbucks gift card!


Don't many lawyers get things like paid maternity leave, and year end bonuses? If so, I'm happy to trade those for my gift card (this year I got $20 to Target).


You could have those things too if you went to law school. Instead you chose teaching. I don't owe you anything for yohr choice of profession. Btw I'm the op.

Let me see if I follow you, OP. You're jealous of teacher appreciation days because maybe teachers get a Starbuck's gift card. Although, as many have posted here, teachers don't ask for or expect any gifts and many of them receive nothing. Yet, you are whining for your lack of a Starbucks card.

However, when someone points out that you do have a lawyer appreciation day every time you cash that end of the year bonus, your response is that they, too, could enjoy the appreciation you do if only they went to law school.

Yet, you remain jealous of the Starbucks card and the idea that someone else appreciates people who are not you.

I really hope you are a troll because if you aren't, you are one of DCUM's all time pettiest posters.