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What is the worst "bad Teacher" thing you have ever done

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Nehru · 11/05/2013 16:14

was laughing remembering when as anew teacher I put
"william had a big_" as a fill in the gaps sentence for a very weak group on the board.

as i wrote it out I was reading it, and i started helpless gufffawing. It was so bad i was weeping and couldnt turn around...

WHat have you done?

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mycatoscar · 11/05/2013 17:32

Laughed at a child who fell over a chair when I made him leave he room. To be fair he was constantly doing things like that to gain attention and get laughs. Had to look out the window for a bit once is checked he was ok!

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Nehru · 11/05/2013 19:04

Lol
When s1 was in year 1 the new teacher came out mortified. When shed wobbled him about thinking he was pretending to be asleep , he actually er.. Was.
She was so worried !!

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Nehru · 11/05/2013 19:05

I know of a primary teacher who was so hungover after the staff cmas fo she had to have a bucket in her stock room just in case

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Nehru · 11/05/2013 19:05

Xmas do

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Loshad · 12/05/2013 13:34

after carrying 120 pieces of assessed work "miles" from main school to sixth form muttered a fuck under my breath as i put them down on the bench and caught my finger. A sixth former heard me Blush

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orangeandemons · 14/05/2013 19:35

Fallen asleep during invigilation

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LadyDamerel · 14/05/2013 19:37

One of my colleagues had to go home at playtime after a staff night out because she was so hungover.

Our head was not happy!

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orangeandemons · 14/05/2013 19:57

My colleague had to go to sleep in a cupboard during a free period after a heavy night out

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LadyDamerel · 14/05/2013 20:12

I've just remembered the trip I went on when I was a student teacher. I rolled out of a club at 3am, got up to go into school for a 7am coach pickup and promptly slept for for the entire 2 and a half hour journey from Bristol to London, despite the racket of 45 Y6s.

My judgypants would be round my ears if a student I was mentoring did that now!

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Imsosorryalan · 17/05/2013 14:42

The first time I taught in reception, I gave them all a piece of paper titled 'what I did in the summer holidays'..
I thought they could write what they did!! I had pretty much most of the class in tears saying they couldn't do it... Not a great start to the year but they got over itWink

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complexnumber · 11/06/2013 09:52

I went behind a girl I thought was my daughter in the library yesterday and put my hands round her neck and made throttling noises.

Needless to say it wasn't my daughter.

I couldn't help but laugh, and said 'Oh good grief! I think I have done that before!'

The girl said 'Yes, you have.'

It appears that I have assaulted this girl in this manner earlier this year. Mortifying! Fortunately she does not have a phobia about people touching her neck, and thought it was really funny as well.

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Pantone363 · 11/06/2013 10:01

DSs teacher sent a letter out saying the class would all need "willies" instead of "wellies".

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Pantone363 · 11/06/2013 10:03

His other teacher also forgot to tell the sub that we withdraw DS from religious assembly's (atheist).

He came out of school with an ash cross on his forehead waving a palm crucifix. His teacher was mortified (it was quite funny actually).

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AViewFromTheFridge · 11/06/2013 21:25

Got the giggles when a boy with autism suddenly started shouting "YOU ARE FAT!" at the teacher. That went down well.

Actually, I get the giggles quite a lot.

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ReadytoOrderSir · 12/06/2013 19:24

I broke a 'show and tell' item this week :-(

Luckily it's new and replaceable at not much cost. The pupil as OK about it, but I was mortified.

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IroningBoredDaily · 12/06/2013 23:27

I was trying so desperately hard to ensure that I said 'organism' when doing science with a yr 4 class, that of course the word 'orgasm' popped out!!

TA and I manage to fudge over it and the children didn't have a clue thank God!

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IroningBoredDaily · 12/06/2013 23:29

Love the Willy / Welly story!!

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BobbyJones28 · 01/08/2014 16:14

dropped a few F bombs from time to time eek

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CatKisser · 01/08/2014 18:05

Bobby jones, did you type "bad teacher" into the search box by any chance?

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Happy36 · 03/08/2014 23:54

Laughed when I heard one of my naughty Year 10 boys had hurt his knee playing football. I like the boy, but he´s very cheeky. I´m sure he would have done the same if it had been me with the injury.

I did feel bad afterwards, though.

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Happy36 · 03/08/2014 23:56

orangeandemons Our school nurse´s beds are used almost exclusively by knackered or hungover teachers. She shushes the sick children and sends away any timewasters so the teachers can have a kip in peace.

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phlebasconsidered · 04/08/2014 13:22

On the morning I was meant to present our book week assembly, I woke late, shoved yesterday's trousers and a clean top on, and drove in. I delivered the assembly with yesterday's knickers peeping from the bottom of a trouser leg. One of my students pointed it out.

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Softlysoftlycatchymonkey · 04/08/2014 13:32

Lost a pupils gold earrings Blush

Worst ever was when a child (7 years) was getting out of the pool, as I was speaking to his mother, the child filled his swimming cap up with water and threw it in my face!

I was saturated. For some god awful reason, for a snap second I went to smack his bum! The screeching of brakes in my head was deafening and just as quick I stopped.

His mother was aghast at what he had done but non the wiser I was just about to assault her son.

Was the end of term..... Those kids snapped every last bloody nerve I had that year!

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zingally · 10/08/2014 17:42

Walking my Reception class back from assembly one day, there was a bit of a traffic jam, so I decided to take them round the other way, which involved negotiating a heavy fire door.
On approaching this door, you had to pull it to open it, but also needed to put a bit of oomph behind it, as it tended to stick.
Thinking my class were further back than they were, I gave the door an almighty heave... smack into the head of a 5 year old boy. Needless to say, he went flying, landed on the ground with a thump and got a massive egg on his head.

I've never rushed a child to first aid for an ice-pack so fast in my entire life.
I'm literally going "GET OUT THE WAY!" As I drag a screaming, hysterical child by the hand behind me.

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