To ask the teachers you remember from your school days (good and bad)

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I was originally replying to another thread but my story got more anecdotal and away from the point of the thread so decided to create a new thread and hear others stories too.

When I was about four or five months into my first year at Primary school ('93) we moved house and I moved to a new school and my teacher (though I liked her at the time) looking back was very unprofessional and quite frankly, horrible! Within the first week of me starting there a boy said he needed to go to the toilet and she said "Get on your knees and beg and I might let you go" () As a class of 7ish year olds we all laughed and said boy reluctantly (after pleading not to for ages but at her insistence) got on his knees and put his hands in a praying position and begged to go and she made him do it over and over again bowing down at her feet before she let him go. I was petrified I would be subjected to the same humiliation like that and once ended up wetting myself weeks later during a lesson

Brilliant Scottish history teacher in Yorkshire - strict but fair, great sense of humour. Learned a lot I still remember.

In equivalent of years 5 and 6 I had the best, simply the best, teacher.
She didn't dumb things down, when other classes were doing plays of Oliver, we were adapting Alexander Solzhenitsyn! At 11!
She used to take us all over London on field trips. We'd hop on the tube and go to museums and plays.
We were also the only class with pets. We had a rabbit, gerbils, hamster, terrapin and fish! Her husband was a retired artist and used to come in and do art with us.
And she was so gentle and kind, always encouraging us to be kind to one another.
I loved her! She was the best.

I was told by my RE teacher that I didn't have a name as I hadn't been christened. Had two very creepy PE teachers who stood and stared at us while we showered after class (shudder)

On the upside had an amazing A level english teacher who read Chaucer in a broad black country accent to us - it actually made sense that way!

Had two very creepy PE teachers who stood and stared at us while we showered after class (shudder)
I think being creepy was a prerequisite of being a PE teacher a few years ago! We had the dreaded showers too, and had to do the lesson in our knickers if we didn't have our kit!

None of the PE teachers at my secondary school were creepy. The vast majority of teachers I had were nice/good teachers. I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the ones who weren't throughout all of primary and high school.

The headteacher of my primary school was an out and out pervert. Of course we didn't realise it at the time, but now. Omg. If these things happened to my dd, the police would definitely be involved and he would be arrested. In fact, it is often discussed with ex female pupils.

He is probably dead now, but some of the things he used to do involved getting our heads (girls only), putting it between his groins and squeezing his legs together
Tickling us
He looked down my dress after swimming once
Used to take the gym class and stopped a girl mid cartwheel, and ran his hand down and up her legs and fanny, to 'show' us what shape our cartwheel should be.

Fucking shocking, but obviously we were kids and didn't realise until we were older that he must have been getting his kicks.

Yuck Donald

The bad - my primary headteacher. I Was under radar as I was quite bright, had no problems. But my sister (also bright!! But high functioning autistic so had problems communicating) seemed to be at the centre of her bullying. Two incidents stand out.

First, during a hymn practise assembly, Miss Bitch was convinced my sister want joining in, so she was made to stand up in front of the whole school and sing on her own, without lyrics.

Second, because of some homework infraction, she was made to stand in the HAT office with her arms out, dictionaries on both. Fortunately, my mum happened to come to the school to drop something else, saw Dsis in window, and pulled us or of school. Unfortunately, sis was so hysterical by that point that when my mum burst in to the office she wet herself :(

The good: After being removed from that hell hole, my sis flourished and ended up actually learning at a different school, with a beautiful, kind, patient teacher. She's the reason I went in to teaching.

I also had a wonderful, slightly mad South African teacher who delighted us with tales from SA, including one where his mates nicked his clothes after a swim! I learnt so much from him, although Miss Bitch promptly got rid of him :(

The best teacher i ever had was Jeremy Strong (the author) who was my year 3 teacher for a term. Full of inspiration and excitement but amazing at spotting relationship issues in the class and people who weren't doing their best. I still find it odd that the pictures on his books are of a grey-haired man, to me he is always and forever a groovy young teacher bringing out a huge box of electric tricks so that we could build vast circuits round the classroom. Our tables were named after birds of prey, and a small part of me is forever a Buzzard

Some of these are awful 😖

I remember a TA from primary school because she had great hair, I remember the headmaster because he was super nice and American.

Secondary school -
One teacher was young and handsome and was a bit too friendly and hands on with the girls in his class.
My English teacher was amazing and I loved her. Before her I had two other English teachers who I hated and so played up in their class until I was moved.
Same with science. I was forever bunking off and eventually they put me in with the really strict teacher, who I liked.
Had a South African math teacher who I liked, she used to tell us stories about sitting around the pool eating Christmas dinner 😁
I'll never forget the deputy head, he was so lovely but really really strict and the kind of teacher you knew not to get on the bad side of. He's now serving (a lot of) time for child sex offences 😳