Inappropriate mnemonic from school?

Within reason, if it brings a bit of laughter to a maths or physics classroom, which I consider are hideously dull places for many, it’s probably not the end of the world if it isn’t too crass. Most of them have heard of bollocks and vibrators etc. A few of the ones mentioned are a bit lurid for my tastes …

By who? I bet it wasn't the teacher who invented it or told them to use it. It sounds like something a teen boy would say to try and be funny. I would not take it seriously at all.

I think it was posh-bashing not child-bashing.

Some people see what they think is privilege and don’t think any deeper than that.

Was it definitely the teacher who taught it or was he just repeating something another student had come up with? Not professional if it is the former.

This does remind me of when I was doing A Level physics and someone came up with

Oh Bollocks A Fucking Git Kicked Me for stellar classification. Teacher laughed it off. I did remember it though!

Would you say the same if it was racist rather than homophobic?

I agree. As a teacher, I get kids in groups to come up with their own mnemonics. Best way for them to remember it. Sounds like boys having a bit of craic with it.

We got g for ground and c for ceiling

I think that's something he and his mates have made up. Not sure what a fee paying school has to do with it though. Do you think teachers in state schools routinely teach inappropriate things.

It's hard to believe that in this day and age there are still people who think it's funny or acceptable to make jokes about children being raped.

Do you think the idea of women and girls being raped is funny too, or is it just OK to joke about because they're boys? Or is it because they're posh that somehow makes the idea of them being sexually abused at school hilarious rather than just tragic?

I don’t think it’s making fun of gay people - the vibrator is not going up the gay x-men character’s bum (never thought I would be typing this on a Saturday morning)

I agree.

What does reporting it really achieve op?

Your ds has had his mind blown by it now ( or not)

it’s also half term …

There's nothing homophonic about saying gay people use vibrators . ...

well it’s making fun of themselves with the word “my” oh my god seriously get a life. 13 year old boy will be talking about much worse than this. you are obviously one of THOSE parents. please stop, it will not benefit your kids

This reminded me of our creepy maths teacher who taught us: ‘Sex on hard concrete always hurts the others arse’.

I’d totally forgotten it until this thread, but then again I’ve had zero need to recall trigonometry since 🤣. Accusations and rumours of inappropriate behaviour surrounded this particular teacher so it felt very inappropriate, but no way would I ever have repeated it to my parents like OP’s son 😳.

Nearly 50 years ago at my local comp we were just taught the very dull and safe "some old horses can always hear their owner's approach."

However, I can clearly still remember that.

I don’t think it’s appropriate to talk to 13 yr olds about anything to do with vibrators up bums, and would email the school. There are plenty of other silly mnemonics that could be invented to help memory. Likely the teacher got taught it when they were young by an inappropriate teacher and is perpetuating it by passing it on- doesn’t mean it’s right!

on a side note, my science teacher from secondary school turned out to be a paedophile.

Hilarious!
But just as teachers don’t report the parents of every child who takes a term time holiday( we always know, either the holidaying child tells us or their classmates do), I don’t think it’s necessary to report teachers for every mistake.
That’s even if it’s true, which it probably isn’t.

I still find that school mnemonic from the seventies helpful in my fifties so it was worth it!

I don’t think it’s homophobia at all. The mnemonic includes the words “my” rectum. So the inventor and the boys chanting it are happy to be involved in the “gay” activity. Not phobic at all.

Making fun out of gay people is not just words.

everything in life is not an opportunity to be offended. Neither is it something to complain about. it’s just words. i’d like to bet he is a brilliant teacher.

Dramatic · Yesterday 21:39

I only remember which way stalagmites and stalactites go because our teacher taught us the phrase "tites (tights) must come down"

Our geology teacher taught us:

Stalagmites stand mighty, stalactites hold on tightly.

Species were: KP Crisps Ordered For Gibert and Sullivan.

Moh's Hardness Scale (Quiet at the back, there!) was:

Tall Girls Can Flirt And Other Quaint Things Can Do.

I can remember them only mumble-mumblety years later.

It’s so wrong!

Hilarous,
But very wrong.

Trying to think which of the x-men were gay..?

It's homophobic. Teenage boys finding something funny doesn't mean that it was appropriate and an OK thing for a teacher to say to his pupils.