I think it’s typical gneivas daas and ill tell you why, from personal experience. One of my rabbeim, one that the shiur didnt like very much, came into class the day after with a big bag. He proceeded to call each bochur up to the front to pick out a treat from the bag, from the mishloach manos he had recieved. Now, had all the things been candies or the like, then fine, who cares. But that wasnt the case. This rebbi was older, and didnt eat junk food. He gave away all the stuff he got from our shiur back to the bochurim. My family is not steady financially, but my mother goes the extra mile on purim, to show our hakaras hatov to our rabeim. You cannot imagine my horror when the bochur at the desk next to me picked out the fifteen dollar box of chocolates that my mother worked three jobs a day to buy for the rabbeim. I was never so insulted and disgusted, so under-appreciated. It was callous and wrong. Hu’rayya, I remember this bitterly nearly a decade later. Ya so, I think its wrong.
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