Pissed of the PE teachers

[Fishwife1949]

Right ds came home today and said the PE told them all off when i asked him what happened he said they were doing PE outside

It was raining they told them to play hockey and choose 5 refs there were two games going on at the same time and said they would be back in 15 minutes

When i asked ds were they went he said for coco because it was cold and rainy

You can guess by the time they came back chaos reigned everyone was chasing easvh other with hockey stick people were sword fighting

I dont want to march up to the school and complain but what do you expect leaving year 8 boys alone with hockey sticks AIBU while you get a hot beverge ffs

Oh right seeker but the teachers shouldn't have naffed off for 15 minutes to get cocoa though.

I would be annoyed that 15mins of the lesson (which in PE is actually about half the session) they weren't being taught. I'd expect them to be watching and 'teaching' not going off for coco! The children getting told off for misbehaving would be the least of my worries, and although you didn't say you'd march up to school, if this was the true turn of events I'd certainly be speaking to the teachers in question.

Actually if anyone had been hurt while the PE 'teachers' weren't there they would have been up shit creek without a paddle. Unsupervised year 8s?! Nooooo. Btw owning up as a teacher with a pathological hatred for PE and any teachers in tracksuits!

I bet the teacher said it as a sarcastic retort when some kid asked him where he'd been

How does he know that they went for cocoa?

Are you sure that's what happened? Because if I got called off to do something urgent and three million kids all bugged me about where I'd been, I'd probably give a flippant, obviously untrue answer.

They got told off for messing about, there's nothing wrong in that.

diddl he said they came back with the cups that dad drinks out of

My oh uses a thermous mug

Maybe it was coffie who knows

Any who never mind off to bed

Are you sure 'coco' isn't code for something else? I speak as a dw of a head of dept pe bod

As a teacher of year 8 boys, I think the PE staff were bu. I teach a classroom-based subject, and I would never leave a class unattended during a lesson - you aren't holding up your end of the bargain by teaching them anything, and you're responsible for anything that happens to them in your absence.

I love my year 8 boys: they are a charming and generally well-behaved bunch, but there would be chaos if they were left alone with hockey sticks. Of course they are responsible for their own behaviour, but the teachers really shouldn't have left them!

Just asked dh's band what they'd do if left alone with hockey sticks.

Four blokes in their late 30s/early 40s, all professionals, nine children between them, agreed unanimously that the thing to do would be to 'give each other a good twatting'.

So hardly surprising that a bunch of year 8s did so.

I have just asked DS1 (Year 9) what his lot would do. He said 'probably chase each other round whacking each other with the ends'. DS1 is the most sensible Year 9 ever (in school).

Why didn't the teachers bring the cocoa out with them?

DS2 yr11 loves sport, but I very much doubt if his year were left alone and told to get on with it, that they would.

Saying that tough, his PE teacher is excellent. He gets them all involved, takes them on trips to see professional rugby and football matches. He isn't at all like the ones we had when we were at school!

I reckon a situation occurred, and when some cocky lad as "where you been sir?" He was told sarcastically "drinking cocoa". Surely the school has a sports hall they can use if the teachers don't want to get cold and wet?