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Original poster

...in thinking a head teacher and staff taking part in a Gangnam YouTube effort is inappropriate at best?

175 replies

QueenieLovesEels · 20/12/2012 08:41

Or am I getting crusty?

I just don't understand how you can hold yourself up as a figure respected in the local community and performance a jiggy dance like a kangaroo chucking a lasoo- along with other 'mature' members of staff.

It is a Boys Grammar School and yet female members of staff are jiggying around to 'sexy lady' lyrics.

Purlease. It is in no way cool but more cringe making than David Brent.

Can't link from iPad but it's Boston Grammar School Gangnam.

Maybe I am just a bit of an old fart but I can't help feel standards are at an all time low when you feel the need to debase yourself this much to 'get down wid da kidz'

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HoHoHokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 20/12/2012 09:28

DD had her Christmas party yesterday and the highlight of it for her, by far was the teachers dancing to Gangnam Style!

ChristmasKnackers · 20/12/2012 09:28

YABU

We do something similar every year - MJ Thriller, Christmas Video to do they know its Christmas etc etc. We had a packed house for charity when we did Karaoke for Christmas!

Kids love teachers embarrassing themselves. We do it to make them cringe.

WhenSantaGotStuckUpACunnyFunt · 20/12/2012 09:29

I can't find it Xmas Sad can someone link to it please?

ImpYCelynAndTheIvy · 20/12/2012 09:31

Xmas Grin at Eton style

Jins · 20/12/2012 09:32
Dolallytats · 20/12/2012 09:33

Just watched it and thought it was great!! I remember when 3 of our teachers (2 female, 1 male) did a surprise turn at the school talent show-three little maids from the Mikado!! Brilliant!!

This sort of thing actually goes a long way to helping the relationships between teachers and pupils. Everyone shows their human, fun side. I see nothing wrong with it.

WhenSantaGotStuckUpACunnyFunt · 20/12/2012 09:34

Thanks, but now it won't bloody load Xmas Hmm oh the joys of only having mobile internet.

HipHopOpotomus · 20/12/2012 09:37

YABU - it's not called the silly season for nowt you know. And I think it's great that teachers can show this side of themselves to the students.

WorraLorraTurkey · 20/12/2012 09:37

I think kids identify much easier with staff who know how to have fun now and then.

My old Head teacher was an ancient old fart in a grey suit who rarely cracked a smile. I never really saw him as human and was quite shocked when I saw him eating a sandwich one day because it was far too 'normal' Grin

showmethetoys · 20/12/2012 09:38

When I was at secondary school we also had a '6th form revue' thing where the teachers basically made arses of themselves. Memorable moments include the weedy (but lovely) History teacher playing the '11 o clock Diet Coke Break' bloke (Christ thinking about that he must have been mortified!), the male teachers doing the dole queue scene from The Full Monty and one of the female teachers doing Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights.

It was 15 years ago but I still remember it so clearly, it was brilliant!

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QueenieLovesEels · 20/12/2012 09:38

It's like feminism never happen.

Okay I'll take the crusty hit

still think they're a bunch of saddos as do the teenagers passing this around
Grin

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PearlyWhites · 20/12/2012 09:39

I think you need to chill out , children respect their teachers more if they can relate to them.

Fakebook · 20/12/2012 09:41

Eton style is brilliant! They need more views.

AudrinaWhiteChristmasAdare · 20/12/2012 09:43

I've just noticed that they pronounce Moet, "Mo-ay" in Eton Style Shock

Unless they are deliberately trying to mislead us

I'm now imagining my former teachers doing this. I'd have loved it.

cantspel · 20/12/2012 09:46

feminism???

How is this a feminist issue?

VoiceofUnreason · 20/12/2012 09:48

Every other year, my secondary school teachers did a panto. Lasted about half an hour, but they wrote it all - including songs - and even the really senior staff got involved, dragged up, the whole lot.

We all thought it was fabulous. The teachers were bloody good sports and we all thought they were great for doing it. The shows were really good and very funny.

I do think, very occasionally, some of these Christmas things can cross a line of embarrassment that goes beyond cringe-making and demeans themselves and loses them respect. But very occasionally.

showmethetoys · 20/12/2012 09:49

Yes, what the jeff has feminism got to do with this?!

EverythingsDozy · 20/12/2012 09:49

Have you seen 'spartan high school style' on YouTube?? Its hideously terrible!!
Heyyyy lunch lady Grin

My 2yo loves gangnam style. She keeps telling daddy to put it on again and again and again and dancing to it. Its hilarious but I feel she may be a contribution to the end of the world Confused

aPirateInaPearTree · 20/12/2012 09:49

oh god yabu. it's not inappropriate. it's a laugh. bit of fun, bet the kids were equally cringed up and laughing at their teachers at the same time. The teachers were good sports imo.

WorraLorraTurkey · 20/12/2012 09:52

Great, admit you're being crusty and then blame your feminist views for it Grin

That'll go down like a cup of cold sick with a lot of posters!

AudrinaWhiteChristmasAdare · 20/12/2012 09:55

I had to be one of The Spice Girls for a surprise end of school concert performance by teaching staff once. The roar that went up from the pupils when the music started and we all struck our poses was amazing. I briefly considered a career change but at almost thirty and five months pregnant it wasn't to be...

D0oinMeCleanin · 20/12/2012 09:56

YABU.

The dc's school hold a summer fayre every year. Last year two of their male teachers dressed up in drag and one of the women teachers did some silly hip hop dance.

The kids thought it was great and it has not effected their teacher. One of them was the teacher dd1 has just got. She was over the moon when she found out she would be moving to his class because "he is funny and nice" she feels a lot more comfortable talking to him about any issues she has than she did with her 'professional' teacher. I think it is good for the children to see a less serious side to their teachers.

aPirateInaPearTree · 20/12/2012 09:56

ha like the eton style one.

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QueenieLovesEels · 20/12/2012 10:06

Feminist from the perspective that professional female teachers are dancing/prancing to a song with lyrics 'sexy lady' for the entertainment of adolescent boys and to be mocked accordingly.

Also if you check out what the song is actually about it.......

I don't mind being crusty on this one actually.

I think there is a world of difference between doing a pantomime for the entertainment of an immediate audience and popping this poor and ill considered effort on YouTube.

Nobody needs to see middle-aged teachers flapping their flaccid bits around. There is,to my mind, a huge difference between crafting a humorous dialogue and acting like an uninspired utter buffoon. A spoof on a spoof.

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WinterWinds · 20/12/2012 10:07

YABU.

I heard on local radio yesterday about a lady who'd gone to watch her Dc's school production and half way through all the kids and teachers broke into gangham style which was totally unexpected, sounded fanatastic!!

My own DC's school did a talent show and the female teachers did a dance which the kids loved but what they and the parents didn't know was that the male teachers and the head did an unexpected dance at the end.

They Got the biggest cheers of the night. It was brilliant.

Why shouldn't teachers let off a bit of steam and show the kids they are only human??