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Memorable school teachers
« on: September 07, 2017, 12:00:25 PM »
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Re: Memorable school teachers
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2017, 12:02:53 PM »
Nothing much to be honest.

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Re: Memorable school teachers
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2017, 12:11:27 PM »
School for me was like visiting Beruit - keep your head down and hope you get out alive.

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Re: Memorable school teachers
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2017, 12:22:26 PM »
Some of the school teachers I encountered during my schooling in the 50s/60s were memorable to say the least. My elementary school which I attended from the age of 4 was really scary. :o When I first started school it took children from the ages of 4-14. The head teacher was a violent bully who beat the kids from poor homes black and blue just because he felt like it! >:( In the growing season the other male teacher would set us schoolwork to get on with, whilst he went off to attend to his greenhouses!

I went to a Ladies College at the age of 11, many of the staff would have been right at home at Harry Potter's Hogwarts. ;D The Latin master believed he was the ghost of a prophet, I kid you not, and would tell us ghost stories during lessons, which frightened many of the 'gals'. The headmistress, received complaints from parents and marked his card for him. The handwork mistress only lacked the witches hat, she look so much like a witch in her black clothes and gown, she even wore black fingerless mittens when teaching us. The biology master had to deal with the subject of human reproduction when we were 15, it was hilarious, the poor bloke went as red as the tie he was wearing, as we so kindly pointed out to him. ;D One of the other masters was having an affair with the head girl. :o At lunch times if he was on duty, before we could get on with out lunch we all had to stand whilst she made a grand appearance in the dining hall.
 
I phone my geography mistress (91) every month, she was one of the best teachers, albeit very strict. When I got to the age of 60 she told me to call her by her first name as I was now an OAP. I tease her and say that I still feel I should sit to attention and call her 'Miss'. ;D

What tales do other posters have to tell of their school days?

Much to my regret, I found school to be an imposition on my time I really detested being there, I felt the school sports day lasted about a month, I have very little / no interest in any sport other than rugby union.

ippy

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Re: Memorable school teachers
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2017, 12:27:56 PM »
Much to my regret, I found school to be an imposition on my time I really detested being there, I felt the school sports day lasted about a month, I have very little / no interest in any sport other than rugby union.

ippy
That.

Loathed school, every wasted minute of it. I could have been at home reading and learning things.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

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Re: Memorable school teachers
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2017, 12:40:20 PM »
That.

Loathed school, every wasted minute of it. I could have been at home reading and learning things.

Yes.

Or I could have been at a decent school that regarded itself as an educational establishment and not a place where kids were kept off the streets akin to having them in prison. Having a 'them and us' mentality between teachers and pupils (or 'learners' are they are now) is not helpful.

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Re: Memorable school teachers
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2017, 01:07:26 PM »
I liked all my schools and can't remember any particularly bad teachers (some were boring). At state primary school I played football with the boys in my class in the playground with those little round plastic balls with holes in them every lunch time, the teachers were nice though Ms May the dinner lady was a witch, work was pretty easy and I had a good time - I just ignored the few racist kids.

Private school - work was harder, had some great teachers - Latin, Maths, History, Politics. Even the male English teacher, who was having an affair with someone in my year in the sixth form, which is creepy, was a good teacher and gave me a greater appreciation for literature.

A memorable teacher is the P.E. and Maths teacher - must have been in her late 40s or early 50s - and in Year 7 she had me walk up down the corridor about 4 times , putting my feet straight as they were pigeon-toed - did me a massive favour as that was when I realised that if I started being conscious about it I could correct it.  I feel like I learned a lot at school. I wish I had made more use of the opportunities I had been given, but I was young, lazy, lacking in confidence and afraid of failing, so played it cool and coasted a bit rather than tried as hard as I could/ should have. 
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