Every festival, I always have to visit relatives and friends, and all kinds of gifts are indispensable in my hands, and the children's teachers are also one of the objects of gifts for parents.
This "custom" is not only prevalent in China, but even abroad is competing to imitate, a British primary school teacher posted a paragraph through the social **platform on the occasion of Christmas**, which was intended to tell everyone not to give gifts to teachers at Christmas, but was attacked by a group of parents because of the problem of expression.
The Natalie teacher claims that choosing what kind of gifts for family and friends during the holiday season is a somewhat difficult thing in itself, let alone for teachers, and there are three kinds of gifts she least wants to get:
The first: "Victoria's Secret".
Many parents choose expensive luxury goods when preparing gifts for teachers, and in foreign countries, the high-end underwear brand "Victoria's Secret" has become the first choice for parents to give gifts to female teachers.
Parents may think that this gift is expensive and high-grade enough, and it will definitely be liked by the teacher, but Natalie said that whenever there is a "Victoria's Secret" bag on her desk, she will really feel embarrassed, so she hopes that parents will not choose personal items as gifts for teachers.
The second: high-calorie desserts.
Gifts, in addition to using must be food, such as some exquisite cakes, desserts are also often received by teachers, and some parents will buy a copy for each child in the class in order to show their "enthusiasm". To this sensei Natalie said, "Listen, you want to give everyone a dessert, it's cool, but you need to ask the teacher in advance if you want to, and when you can do it, because these things are just too high in calories for us." ”
The third type: the overly ambiguous blessing of parents of the opposite sex.
Ms. Natalie claims that over the past few years, the fathers of several students have been excessively "close to themselves", and they receive their "too ambiguous" blessings via text message or other means whenever the holidays come, whether they are for the sake of their children or for other reasons, which is simply unnecessary.
Natalie's remarks were so direct that they clearly angered some of the parents who were preparing gifts for their children's teachers, and they were slammed by parents.
Some parents angrily scolded: "Oh my God, shut up, I want your student's parents to send you a piece of shit, ungrateful." ”
Another parent said, "For a teacher with no conscience like you, if my children's teachers are the same as you, I won't give them anything." ”
Why did we say above that Natalie meant good, but the expression was wrong?
For example, in the second thing, Natalie wants to express that parents send desserts at random times, which will make the children happy, but will seriously affect their normal teaching time. And Natalie did not express it with the child as the starting point, but with her own troubles.
In fact, the reason why parents will try their best to give gifts to teachers is nothing more than to let their children get more care, and in recent years, this way that should not be respected has developed more and more outrageous, and even parents have become a comparison phenomenon in gift-giving.
A friend of mine once told me on Teacher's Day this year that he and his wife gave a high-end lipstick to each of the children's teachers, which cost more than 2,000 yuan, and he himself did not want to send it, but all the parents were sending it, and he was afraid that his children would be treated differently if he did not send it.
What's even more terrifying is that this phenomenon has even spread to kindergartens, and the preschool teachers around me told me that they can receive a variety of gifts on Teacher's Day, and some parents will hide in places that cannot be seen by monitoring to send things to teachers.
For these, I can only sigh with a sentence of "pity the hearts of parents in the world", do you or you have any embarrassing things around you about "giving gifts to teachers"?Feel free to share it in the comment section.