I was watching Leave It To Beaver and it’s the end of school and Beaver needs a present for Miss Landers. So June orders a box of hankerchieves for Miss Landers and a slip for her. Of course the boxes get mixed up with predictable hillarious results.
Question is how common was this? We never did this. I went to school in the 70s.
On the show Miss Landers opens the gifts in front of all the class. What would happen if you were poor and couldn’t give Miss Landers a gift> What if you didn’t like your teacher?
On the show Beaver snuck a peak (thank goodness) and found the slip so he didn’t give her the slip but gave her an old postcard.
Mean old Judy pointed that out. When Miss Landers thanked the class for all her gifts Judy said “Except Beaver he didn’t bring you anything.” Miss Landers said “Yes he did he gave me a postcard of the nation’s capital” Judy replies “That was just an old postcard someone sent his mother.” Miss Landers corrects her by saying “It’s the thought that counts.”
At the end Beaver tells Miss Landers what happend and we all have an “AW moment.” Then he says he left the slip in his locker and while he was too embarrased to give it to her, he wouldn’t be too embarrased for Miss Landers to take it out of his locker once he left school
In grade 6 our teacher left mid year on a teacher exchange to Australia. Our class wanted to get him something for the long flight, so I swiped a pack of my dad’s cigarettes.
We did it in primary school around Christmas time. This would be the late 80s and early 90s. They were still doing it when my sister attended the same school in the late 90s and early 00s.
No, not everyone brought a present. It was awhile ago, but I think about half didn’t from year to year. Someone who wanted to give, but didn’t have the money could have made a gift, I guess. When I was there, primary school was K-4, so kids were still into giving construction paper crafts and drawings at that age.
I only did it when I was in 1st grade in the 70’s but I do it for my kid now. I’ve knit things twice and gave a gift card once. In kindergarten we all chipped in but then, to my horror, most of the kids brought something personal too and my kid cried.
I get stuff every year at Christmas from students. Usually foodstuffs or coffee mugs, but occasionally something useful like books. My team knows my birthday, so they usually get me something like a new Hawaiian shirt.
I always took fudge or cookies to my teachers when I was going to school.
I’m a 7th grade teacher, which puts me right in between the time when kids are “too cool” for school and still like their teachers.
This year, I got a gingerbread man(store bought), a large cookie and card(home made), and a tin of cookies. We had a snow day the day before break, so I’m assuming more will come when we return. I sometimes get ornaments for the tree or gift cards.
I’d say in my school, about 15% of kids get gifts for me. I have about 115 kids, so that’s not too bad.
Yes, I eat everything the kids bring me, even the home made stuff.
When I was in grade school (mid-to-late 70s) I remember my mother always got a Christmas tree ornament for my teachers. I suppose there could have been a conflict there if they weren’t celebrators of Christmas, but I don’t remember hearing anything.
I went to grade school in the '50s, and I don’t remember giving my teachers gifts, except for valentines. But I do remember a few times when we had a teacher over for dinner.
I gave all my teachers gifts up until high school. It got a little complicated giving out gifts to eight different teachers in one day, and I didn’t want any teachers I disliked to feel bad that I left them out so I gradually stopped. I mostly gave small things like cards, homemade pins and ornaments (both were a big hit.) One year I even gave plants for some reason, I don’t remember why! One of my teachers told me a few years later how she loved the one I gave her and it was spreading well. I also gave my favorite science teacher things to add to his classroom collection such as a raccoon jaw and a wasp nest (that apparently wasn’t vacated of all the wasps.:smack:)
Yes, I was a suckup.
However, I had been doing this since kindergarten. It was my way of saying thank you to the teachers. I was aware that hardly any kids gave presents to the teachers and I wanted to do something to show that they were appreciated.
