Page 8 | If you could sit in a room with a teacher of your choice from your childhood and tell them anything, what would you say?

minniesdragg · 06/09/2021 17:13

So many of these have brought tears to my eyes

Tempusfudgeit · 06/09/2021 17:13

To the games master. Thank you for putting your arm round me when I needed it. It was brave of you.

Disfordarkchocolate · 06/09/2021 17:17

PE teachers - not everyone likes hockey and netball. How about finding some activities for the people who are crap at these?

Everyone else apart from my history teacher - why was there no encouragement? I was bloody bright, I now have a good degree from a Russell Group university, not one of you saw that.

I still feel a little bit bitter.

cicatrix1 · 06/09/2021 17:18

Mr Forbes you made my life a misery I was so quiet and withdrawn due to family matters...Were did the colour of my knickers come into maths???

thefirstmrsrochester · 06/09/2021 17:32

Mrs Macbeth, you should never have been let near a school, I was (and still am) small in stature, and not disabled as you told the entire class I was, it was also none of your business that my mum was in a psychiatric hospital, nor was it your business to inform the class of this at ‘news’ time. You were a vile specimen and I truly hope that you got what you deserved in life.

FrankOrTheBeans · 06/09/2021 17:39

Mrs Jones from year 2 - how can you live with yourself after watching a whole class full of 6 year old girls being inappropriately touched repeatedly by boys in their class during story time on the classroom floor?

We weren't old enough to know it was wrong and you did nothing as the only adult in that room - for a whole year! Us girls remembered it and discussed it for years in Primary school.

CouldBeOuting · 06/09/2021 17:54

I’d love to ask nearly all of them why they never considered that my poor attendance might have been due to my mother not sending me in with visible bruises or the constant letters saying I couldn’t do PE were so that no one saw the bruises that were under my clothes.

FrankOrTheBeans · 06/09/2021 18:14

@CouldBeOuting

I’d love to ask nearly all of them why they never considered that my poor attendance might have been due to my mother not sending me in with visible bruises or the constant letters saying I couldn’t do PE were so that no one saw the bruises that were under my clothes.

♥️

jugglingduty · 06/09/2021 18:41

Fuck me, they have such power don't they? I hope teachers know this nowadays and are better.

purplecorkheart · 06/09/2021 18:49

Mr. Callnan, you may not have been the best teacher I ever had in the subjects you thought me but you were probably one of the nicest teachers I have had. You noticed I was shy and had no self confidence and made it your mission to make sure I was happy and self confident. Thank you.

Blueleah · 06/09/2021 18:59

I’d love to ask my secondary school teachers why they did fuck all when I was obviously isolated and being bullied for years on end. The day I left school I remember one teacher saying “you must be glad to be done with this place, it’s been awful for you hasn’t it”. And I wanted to say “Oh you noticed? Well then why the fuck didn’t you do something?”

Hen2018 · 06/09/2021 19:36

Mr Price - you are thick and you are nasty. You’d never make the cut as a teacher today. There was no one to complain to as the only other teacher was your wife...

peoniesandpastels · 06/09/2021 19:46

That she was an awful, terrible bully and that I'm glad she got the sack. Anyone who harbours that amount of disdain for children shouldn't be a teacher.

Hen2018 · 06/09/2021 19:47

Miss Jones - thank goodness you’re no longer a PE teacher. As if the standing watching us shower wasn’t weird enough, why did you think it appropriate to strip in the middle of the changing room and walk naked into the showers to “teach us a lesson” to stop us being embarrassed?

And Mr Wood, male PE teacher. Are you out of prison yet?

MerryHellbreakingloose · 06/09/2021 19:51

I want to tell Mr Crabb that I didn't call him "Crabhead" but he banned me from ever talking to him again.

Vaselike · 06/09/2021 20:05

Mr Lamb, it’s been 20 years but I still don’t watch ITV. Well, maybe Downton, but I apologise to you if I do. Of all the learning I ever did, your stuff stuck the most.

Mrs Townson, I understand teaching a bit more now. Doing what you did in a school with not many resources, and with a young baby, you were blimmin awesome. Thank you. Sorry I hero worshipped you a bit.

MilkywayMonarch22 · 06/09/2021 20:08

Infant school, man named Mr Crosland who told me I was rubbish at rounders and need not play, and might as well sit on the side.
I really wanted to play but didn't know the rules and suffer poor co ordination.
That really affected my confidence in sports and I didn't play any sport throughout high school or junior school despite being quite athletic actually. Negative impact on my weight too. Will always remember that.

Samcro7 · 06/09/2021 20:08

@BruhWhy

I often think about running into my P.E teacher and letting her know that what she didn't know about me was that I was being neglected by my parents, and was ashamed about the way I looked and smelled... also ashamed and worried about the fact I didn't have period products, and that's why I made excuses and forged notes to get out of P.E - I wasn't lazy and stupid, she didn't need to shout at me in front of everyone and say these things, all she needed to do was ask and I'd have told her...

I'd also love to tell my lovely English teacher that him telling me that my essay was the best he'd read that year was the first compliment I'd ever gotten from a teacher, and I still think about the way that made me feel to this day

Mine is almost exactly the same as yours OP ☹️

Was quite often told off for looking unkempt and not having nice school clothes by teachers which just made the other kids bully me more!

I did however have a lovely English teacher that bought me new trousers once and would let me read her personal books. She was amazing 😊

BaronessOfTheNorth · 06/09/2021 20:11

You belong in jail.

PicardyRose · 06/09/2021 20:14

Miss S - with your mini-dresses and purple cape and no care for anyone but the boys’ football team - thank goodness teachers have to teach the National Curriculum nowadays, you were so useless and you moved up the school with us so we had you for 3 boring years. Thank goodness for the remedial teachers who taught us how to do cursive writing, listened to us to read and helped us with maths - you did sod all!

Mr G of G house at W school - why the school didn’t sack you for groping girls I will never know - fuck off with your speeches about “lack of moral fibre”. Luckily another girl warned me about you my first day so I wasn’t one of your victims.

Racingadmin · 06/09/2021 20:19

Mr Hughes - please have some mints or gum before you breathe over is checking out work . Your heady breath mix of coffee and hamlet cigars (with undertones of BO from the suit you always wear) is making me gag

Mrs Tilly - Thankyou for letting me hide away from the bullies in your school kitchen .

Ms winder- sorry about what we did in your sex Ed class

NigellasCookalong · 06/09/2021 20:36

My PE teacher too! She used to call me lazy and even fat once. My Mum used to write me notes to get me out of PE because I was struggling and in pain all of the time and she’d roll her eyes and make me stand against the wall. Would shout at me all of the time and made me feel disgusting.

A few years after school finished I was diagnosed with a connective tissue disease I was born with. Would love for her to know. I’ve put a lot of effort in to becoming physically fit and lost weight but that’s only due to the intervention of multiple consultants and lots of medication.

AnnaBegins · 06/09/2021 20:37

Only doing positive ones!

Thank you to my year 11 PE teacher, you noticed that this non sporty slightly overweight girl was loving badminton and gave me and friends permission to play in our free lessons once we reached sixth form. It was the first time sport had been something I could do for fun.

To my year 8 science teacher, you were so ahead of your time/our level but the mini investigations you gave us to do were a solid foundation in how to run any sort of research project and I thought of all your tips whilst doing my (humanities) dissertation. A fantastic inspiring child-led way to teach.

To my German teacher, I am so glad you got out of teaching. You were amazing but it was killing you. You seem so happy now on Facebook, you deserve to be happy.

ineedtostop · 06/09/2021 20:50

@Ekofisk

Mr Roe. Thank you for being surprised that I wasn’t aiming at uni and making me change my mind. I had a blast.

Oh, and I never believed the rumours about you either.

Ekofisk can I ask if that Mr Roe was at MLC in Claremont?

Yukkatree12 · 06/09/2021 20:56

To the two teachers, who said the bullying was my fault and asked me why I had no social skills and asked what was wrong with me - I was 13 years old, having lunch by myself every lunchtime, crying and nobody even batted an eyelid, instead I was asked over and over again why I wasn’t like the other girls. I was diagnosed with autism as an adult, shame on you both for belittling and torturing a 13 year old girl.

Also to the head of my year who after telling him I had been raped, then called me a liar - thank you for that it gave me the fight I needed to exceed expectations in my GCSE’s.

Most teachers (99.9%) are good, brilliant even but there are some who get some kind of pleasure from bullying vulnerable students.