Tiffany, Hermes, Rolex: Teachers are getting ‘ridiculous’ gifts from one-percent parents

New York Post ^ | December 18, 2016 | By Doree Lewak

[ConservativeStatement]

New York City’s teachers might make a paltry salary, but the perks are grade A.

One-percent parents lavish their offspring’s educators with cash tips and over-the-top gifts for the holidays to show their appreciation — and maybe get some special treatment for Junior.

[ConservativeStatement]

Cheap Rolex: “It was a cheap [one], probably $3,000,” said Laura.

[Gene Eric]

Graft.

[coloradan]

I don’t understand what wearing a chronometer does for a person, other than show extreme ostentation. Cell phones have time accurate to less than a second, also days of the week and month (in case you can’t remember them), phases of the moon, and anything else one could think of at one’s fingertips.

[hinckley buzzard]

Corruption as a way of life. Ancient Rome had nothing on these patricians.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I was at a formal affair wearing my Tux when I looked at my watch and realized my Timex Ironman did not really fit. A few weeks later I was at an auction and bought myself a rolex for these formal occasions. Turned out it was from 1977 the year I graduated from College so I call it my graduation present.

Yea big waste of money but back then I had money to burn.

[dfwgator]

“I was hoping for a Longines.”

[struggle]

Sheeesh, never going to happen to me.

[PUGACHEV]

A Hermnes scarf is an very impressive thing. They are wicked expensive, but they are the best in the world, IMHO.

[jocon307]

“I don’t understand what wearing a chronometer does for a person...”

I am way over my head here, but I once read some piece by William Buckley wherein he discussed watches that are “good enough” (my words) to be considered chronometers (at least I think this was the gist of it) because you could use them to navigate at sea (something like that).

So, if one already HAS a yacht....it’s pretty much a bare necessity!

[Leaning Right]

No teacher should accept any gifts from any parent or any student, period. And if the school does not have rules against such things, shame on the school.

[PlateOfShrimp]

I remember giving an elaborate fruit basket for my teacher in hopes of getting a better grade on my essay, but Miss Shields wasn’t buying it.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I don't wear, or even own, a watch. Not even a cheap digital one. And even if I hit the mega-million lotto, I wouldn't ever be able to drop half a grand, much less 3000, 10000, or 20000 (isn't that the upper end of Rolex?) bucks on a watch.

That said, I think a finely crafted watch has something that a cellphone simply lacks. Something that has been engineered right out of modern technology. It's like the difference between my AR15 and my pre-1900 made Argentine Mauser. Yeah, the AR is better in every way...But it lacks the grace of the old Mauser nonetheless.

[DesertRhino]

Its a government employee, taking valuable gifts. Laws??

[the OlLine Rebel]

Wearing a wristwatch is so much simpler and faster to get the time.

Using the damned minicomputers is like going back to pocket watches. You have to grab it and flip it to the right orientation, and worse, have to touch it to see the time.

1 simple arm motion, or even just eye motion. Done.

[dfwgator]

Does anybody really know what time it is?

[Cementjungle]

In Ukraine you can’t get and A or B unless you get something for your teacher. They let you know what they need... could be a fridge if theirs is broken.... cost is $100 which is one month’s salary for a teacher there.

[Mears]

My kids attended school in the 70s and gifts to teachers were not allowed,and they shouldn’t be.

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[Huntress]

Does anybody really care?

If so I can’t imagine why.

[steve86]

I just barely raise the phone out of my shirt pocket - one inch - and the display appears with the time at the top - then drop back in the pocket and phone goes back to sleep. Uses proximity sensor.

[MrChips]

Ah! Noblesse oblige is alive and well!