Anonymous
12/20/2018 12:48
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here. Yes, elementary. We aren’t allowed to give them edibles of any kind.
Edibles, huh? I hope not!
And when you say “gifting students” it sounds like you are giving them as gifts.
Maybe say “gifting something to their students”?
Glad I'm not the only one who went there with the term edibles.
Anonymous
12/20/2018 12:46
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Please - no need for gifts for the kids. They are getting plenty of junk this time of year.
Save the money and spend it on extra tissues and hand sanitizer that you'll surely need over the coming months.
Save the money and spend it on extra tissues and hand sanitizer that you'll surely need over the coming months.
Anonymous
12/20/2018 12:37
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
I mean, if you “gift” your students that means you have given your students to someone. So, no, I hope no one is gifting their students. That would be inappropriate.
Anonymous
12/20/2018 11:08
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never heard of such a thing. And it is giving. Not gifting. Giving.
NP
"Gift" has been used as a verb for 400 years. That's plenty of time to get used to it.
From Merriam-Webster, Is "Gift" Really a Verb?:
Happy holidays! 'Tis the season for gifting!
Ooh, sorry—did that use of the verb gift make you feel weird? Or perhaps fill you with an unearthly fury? We apologize, but we did it for your own good. You're likely to keep hearing and seeing the verb gift in the coming weeks, and as your dictionary, we feel it is our duty to help make those encounters as pain-free as possible. If you'd like to be better equipped to cope with the onslaught of gift-as-a-verb incidences, read on.
Gift has been a verb for 400 years. It is real. It is not new.
…
Go ahead and use it, but I judge you, just like I judge those who say "he passed" instead of "he died" and "intimacy" instead of "sex". It's so mealy-mouthed and middle class.
I don't think you know what mealy-mouthed means. HTH.
Anonymous
12/20/2018 09:31
Subject: Re:Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
I never bothered doing this as an elementary school teacher. It didn't matter.
Once I got my Doctorate in Education I became a professor. Now I do indeed treat the class to pizza during the first exam review class. Then I hand out teaching evaluation forms at the start of the second review class, which is the final class of the semester. The students greatly appreciate it, and they have a lot more power than kids did in elementary school (as I could always keep the few powerful parents happy).
Once I got my Doctorate in Education I became a professor. Now I do indeed treat the class to pizza during the first exam review class. Then I hand out teaching evaluation forms at the start of the second review class, which is the final class of the semester. The students greatly appreciate it, and they have a lot more power than kids did in elementary school (as I could always keep the few powerful parents happy).
Anonymous
12/20/2018 08:53
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
I thought about it, but since my roster is 130 middle school students, it's not in the cards. I often give candy canes, but even that felt overwhelming this year. The burnout is real. My gift to them will be grading the piles of late work they are suddenly deciding to turn in 
Anonymous
12/20/2018 08:49
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never heard of such a thing. And it is giving. Not gifting. Giving.
NP
"Gift" has been used as a verb for 400 years. That's plenty of time to get used to it.
From Merriam-Webster, Is "Gift" Really a Verb?:
Happy holidays! 'Tis the season for gifting!
Ooh, sorry—did that use of the verb gift make you feel weird? Or perhaps fill you with an unearthly fury? We apologize, but we did it for your own good. You're likely to keep hearing and seeing the verb gift in the coming weeks, and as your dictionary, we feel it is our duty to help make those encounters as pain-free as possible. If you'd like to be better equipped to cope with the onslaught of gift-as-a-verb incidences, read on.
Gift has been a verb for 400 years. It is real. It is not new.
…
Go ahead and use it, but I judge you, just like I judge those who say "he passed" instead of "he died" and "intimacy" instead of "sex". It's so mealy-mouthed and middle class.
Anonymous
12/20/2018 08:42
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:Never heard of such a thing. And it is giving. Not gifting. Giving.
NP
"Gift" has been used as a verb for 400 years. That's plenty of time to get used to it.
From Merriam-Webster, Is "Gift" Really a Verb?:
Happy holidays! 'Tis the season for gifting!
Ooh, sorry—did that use of the verb gift make you feel weird? Or perhaps fill you with an unearthly fury? We apologize, but we did it for your own good. You're likely to keep hearing and seeing the verb gift in the coming weeks, and as your dictionary, we feel it is our duty to help make those encounters as pain-free as possible. If you'd like to be better equipped to cope with the onslaught of gift-as-a-verb incidences, read on.
Gift has been a verb for 400 years. It is real. It is not new.
…
Anonymous
12/20/2018 08:20
Subject: Re:Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:My son had a teacher who had everyone in the class write a compliment about every other kid in the class. Then the teacher compiled the compliments about each student and printed them out as the holiday gift. My son still has this displayed in his room many years later.
My son's teacher did this too one year. She bought clear ornaments and printed out each compliment on a strip of paper. The students read all of their compliments and out them inside the clear ball that she had written their name and year on. They added a ribbon to it. It makes me smile when I hang it up every year.
Anonymous
12/20/2018 04:30
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well i have 150 of them so no lol
MS and HS kids are pretty pleased to get those cheap peppermint balls. They come 200 to a bucket for $5. I also used to buy the grab bags of mixed pencils at Oriental Trading.
HS kids don't want Christmas pencils cmon. I gave them a movie day and that was good for them.
Anonymous
12/19/2018 20:25
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Yes, elementary. We aren’t allowed to give them edibles of any kind.
Edibles, huh? I hope not!
And when you say “gifting students” it sounds like you are giving them as gifts.
Maybe say “gifting something to their students”?
Anonymous
12/19/2018 20:11
Subject: Re:Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
My son had a teacher who had everyone in the class write a compliment about every other kid in the class. Then the teacher compiled the compliments about each student and printed them out as the holiday gift. My son still has this displayed in his room many years later.
Anonymous
12/19/2018 19:46
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
I am ooooold and can only remember one teacher--my first grade teacher-- giving gifts to students. I still have the elf ornament she made.
I THINK we all got one, but it is possible that somehow only I got one, because she and I had the same unusual first name.
I THINK we all got one, but it is possible that somehow only I got one, because she and I had the same unusual first name.
Anonymous
12/19/2018 19:28
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Anonymous wrote:Well i have 150 of them so no lol
MS and HS kids are pretty pleased to get those cheap peppermint balls. They come 200 to a bucket for $5. I also used to buy the grab bags of mixed pencils at Oriental Trading.
Anonymous
12/19/2018 18:46
Subject: Any other teachers NOT gifting their students?
Well i have 150 of them so no lol