The 17 best gifts for the stressed-out teacher in your life

 By 
Heather Dockray
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Teachers are a brave people. Every day, they head to a job where they’re forced to stand -- or if they’re cool enough, sit on a desk -- and take care of other people’s loud children. They must interrogate bathroom requests, answer wildly offensive questions, kick ancient copy machines back to life. Sometimes, they’re forced to buy their own office supplies. Hate icebreakers? Their life is an icebreaker.

This year, take some time to celebrate the teacher in your life. Below is a list of gift suggestions. Don’t give them an apple. Dream bigger. Try harder. Think: paperclip.

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