A follow up from my older asklemmy post, saying goodbye to a teacher who helped me a lot through my stuff, was thinking maybe chocolate, but one of the dudes said that it’s not a very good idea, I was thinking maybe a perfume/cologne? What do you guys suggest? She is in probably in her early 20s if it helps, and I am in senior high, damn this is getting weirder and weirder, I just want to run away lol

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Speaking as a teacher here: do not buy any teacher anything, as in NOTHING.

    I would be super weirded out if a student gave me something.

    We had a student of more years than most, present the teacher’s lounge with a chocolate basket once, and everyone thought it was strange. So presenting a teacher with a personal gift would be even stranger.

    But if you insist on getting her a gift, perfume would be up there with lingerie and jewelry … WTF dude?

    what should you do? how about you decide what it is that you want to say. Like “you did so and so, that meant a lot for me because of so and so”.

    • Figure out what to say
    • make sure you don’t spend more than 30 or 45 seconds to say it.
    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      Idk but judging from the username, maybe this kind of culture is there in nordic countries? Idk but here students give gifts all the time on teachers day, I just don’t know what is in those boxes lol, as I never attend these kind of events, and idk if ppl give them outside of these events