To ask about eccentric teachers you had...

[Tedster77]

I don't mean the ones who were clearly out of all order (we had several - I can think of at least 2 in prison). I mean the ones who just went their own way....

My textiles teacher used to put on Madonna's True Blue album every single lesson and sing along as we were presented with a dustbin full of offcuts and a sewing machine and our imaginations.

My report card said 'your daughter produced a draught excluder' - which was sort of accurate.

I have to ask.

What was in the teapot?

There was an English teacher who always stank of booze. It was always said he looked down girls tops - while he certainly lent forward too far when we were sitting and he was standing over us I don't know if he did look down. I remember him doing so but I could be influenced by rumours! He was sacked eventually.

There was a psycho history teach. Would throw things (as was apparently common if this thread is anything to go by!) but also take out his false teeth, swear and one or two other things. He was also a head of year probably scared the head to get that promotion and the wall outside the office had dents of various sizes where people had punched it after the joy of spending time with him. He was notorious - he nicknamed was along the Weirdo Weaks type (if I gave the real name you'd know instantly which school I was at).

The teacher that would rant and rave at us if we failed to recite the shite story we had to memorise after each class in another language.
She would also throw hardback notebooks st us on a regular basis call us lazy sacks of potatoes and wonder how we had the temerity to attend her class when our parents had obviously just wasted their money buying school uniform for us.
I still have panic dreams about her and it's 25 years since I sat in her classroom -crazy-old-harpy-

Conga Eel teacher at primary - he was later sacked due to alcoholism but about 10 years before that we could lose an entire day if we could get him talking about bloody conga eels, or fishing in general, but mainly eels. We'd time him, I think the record was an hour long monologue before prompting was requite

We had a supply who said about Normans steaming in and burning down the houses and raping women, all whilst throwing chalk and board rubber across the room.

Being quite a 'rough' school we made a plan to organise a revolution, (couldn't let down the rep) for the next lesson. Yes tampons were used as bazookas and he didn't come back.

The boys just made lots of noise :-)

We had a crazy a level biology teacher! She was the definition of eccentric.

She was absolutley mad and would act out what she was teaching, involving curling up in a ball and "exploding" into a star shape (bare in mind she was well into her 60s).

Personal highlight was the lesson she was demonstrating something involving her gloved hands covered in blood due to the cows lungs she was using as her prop. She decided this was the time to offer a celebratory hug to the vegetarian girl in the class (who couldnt get away from her quick enough) for her score in the latest test!

There were several in the class who didnt really want to continue with the subject, but did just because of the teacher!

I dont envy her teaching a class of hormonal teens advanced sex ed but credit to her for "swimming around like a sperm" and making it more awkward for us than for her!

We had a music teacher in yr 7 and 8 who basically just had us dick about with the demo mode on the school keyboards for 30mins, and then had us doing karaoke for the last half of the lesson. This was way before karaoke was even a thing, and he had his favourite girls who used to get up and sing every lesson... The Bangles - Eternal Flame, Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red, Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings all stick in my mind as being favoured tunes!! Every few weeks he had a crisis of conscience and did a 'real' lesson, in which every time he had us listen to Saen Sain's Carnival of the animals and draw pictures of what animals we could envisage from the music.
This all sounds even weirder written down than it was in my head, but I swear it to be true! He was quite creepy

Our Chemistry teacher used to spank himself

If he ever tripped up over a word, or did something accidentally like dropping a board rubber I'm old and remember those, he'd get a wooden ruler off the desk, bend over and spank himself saying "Bad Billy! Bad Billy!".
(*not his name).
He was married too. There's someone for everyone I suppose

Our O level English teacher spent most of the lessons telling us hilarious stories about his time as an evacuee in West Wales, he really should have written it down

I wonder how many of these are about the same convent grammar in Slough...

I left 7 years ago, and there was still a plain silly amount of teachers who seemed hell bent on teaching you anything other than the subject you'd turned up for!

My favourite was probably the 90 year old supply teacher who covered absolutely every subject, refused to teach it, and then regaled us 13 year olds with his opinions on Tony Blair instead 😳

The science teacher who wore the same style v-neck jumper, but in a different colour each day. We would bet on what colour he'd wear for that day. He always wore the same trousers, though .

The time-warp teacher who looked like she had been spat out of 1956.

The french teacher who, during detention, wanted a 500 page essay on the sex life of a pea.

My husband had a PE teacher, an ex-Marine, who would hit the boys in the shower with a wet towel. He also used to pin them up against the wall when they misbehaved. Once he pushed my husband into the deep end of the pool when my husband couldn't swim, insisting he learn so he didn't drown. When my husband began to drown, a lifeguard had to go a rescue him, because the teacher refused. (My husband now thinks this ex-Marine may have been scarred by the Falklands conflict)

NC as there can't be more than 1 teacher in the UK who did this!
Whenever pupils had a non-uniform day,
our head of year used to turn up dressed in a boys school uniform.

His reasoning was "You wear uniform all the time. For me, a suit is plain clothes. So when you wear plain clothes, I can wear a school uniform."
He was in his 50s!

His home life must have been a lulu.