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To ask who the worst

78 replies

Wildlady · 01/04/2018 16:20

Teacher you had was and why?

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MeltSnow · 01/04/2018 17:02

Mrs whatever-she-was-called who told me off for cheating in front of the whole class when I was a quiet, shy 12 year old. She accused me of copying something for my homework. I hadn’t, I had spent ages doing it and was expecting praise rather than a bollocking.

The80sweregreat · 01/04/2018 17:02

my maths teacher who laughed at my struggle to understand numbers - he was awful and put me off numbers and maths for life ( until i did a course in my 40s and realised i wasnt the only one and i wasnt as bad as i thought i was) this was in the 70s.
My ds 1's geography teacher who told me he would only get a U. he ended up with C at GCSE. not the best pupil at school i know ( never that academic) , but she really had it in for him i think!

winglesspegasus · 01/04/2018 17:03

all PE" teachers"
age 9 sent to catholic school,lasted 3 days.
came home with welts on arms from being beaten for not answering nun.
i didn't answer her because she wasn't using my name/
said it wasn't a christian name.
mom went and verbally rounded on her,informing her if she had wanted me called xxx she would have named me that.reported her to police she was removed to somewhere else.

CombineBananaFister · 01/04/2018 17:04

We had a very strict Geography teacher who expected silence all through his lessons and did not like being interrupted. One girl was so scared to ask to go to the toilet that she actually sat and weed herself, poor, poor girl. I remember hearing the weird dripping noise and the teacher shouting 'oh, fGS! !!' Before storming out and leaving her in tears.
I still feel awful when I remember this, she never came back to school Sad

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Wildlady · 01/04/2018 17:07

@Combinebanana

I struggle to see how you can run a productive class in complete silence.

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Basta · 01/04/2018 17:10

The teachers who bullied, in particular an infamous English teacher.

Orangecake123 · 01/04/2018 17:11

You are slow.

Maths y11.

-Bitch-.

GCSE B grade in the end.

JaceLancs · 01/04/2018 17:13

The teacher who hit me across the hands with a window pole - broke 4 fingers

CombineBananaFister · 01/04/2018 17:13

It wasn't very productive tbh, Wildlady. Lots of reading, lots of tests and he would talk/boom at the front, shout out a name if he wanted an answer. Looking back now it was ridiculous really how scared we were.

NotTheFordType · 01/04/2018 17:15

I started at school in the late 70s and finished at the end of the 80s.

The gropers and oglers were obviously the worst in secondary school.

I went to a state C of E school for primary and the headmaster was an absolute cunt. Every Wednesday morning we had hymn practise (whole school) instead of assembly. All the other teachers buggered off (probably to complain to each other about what a twat he was) so he was on his own with about 400 pupils. He played the piano and at some point during the hour-long torture he would become convinced that "those at the back" i.e. the oldest ones were "talking and fidgeting" (they never were, we were all terrified of him.) He would start to lean back on his piano stool so he could keep playing and try to spot the non-existent mischief makers. I'll never forget the day he fell off Grin

When I was in the 2nd yr (Year 4 now I guess) he overheard us at break time, singing "We three kings of orient are, one in a taxi one in a car". He came charging into our classroom when we went back in and spent 10 minutes giving us a spittle-flecked rant about how we were all going to hell for blasphemy. Bear in mind we were 8-9 years old. He described in great detail how the flames of hell would burn us agonizingly and how our skin would crack and go black, then satan's minions would cut off our fingers and toes.

A friend of mine who was very sweet natured and kind hearted (and hadn't even been singing!) ended up crying hysterically and her mum had to come and pick her up. She then had nightmares all night and had to be kept off school the next day.

After I'd left the school he was forcibly retired after he beat a boy quite badly, in front of the rest of the class, for saying "bloody hell".

Takeaweeseat · 01/04/2018 17:18

The worst teacher I ever had was strangely also the bestConfused

He was so so so strict that if anyone dared even move their head from the front of the class, he would draw attention to us and humiliate us.

The effect this had on the class was that every pupil, including the ones that messed about in other classes, listened to his every word, never dared miss homework for his class and we all got straight A's in his class.

ClaryFray · 01/04/2018 17:21

The teacher who stepped on five year old me. Because I'd tried to stand on a wasp that had come to close to me. I was terrified of them, that was 20 years ago. She still works at my old junior school.

Takeaweeseat · 01/04/2018 17:21

PE teachers, all of them
Actually not sure it was them personally or school policy but the shower horror, and the gym skirt nightmare.
Why, why do that to teenage girls?

Oh God, I remember the horror of the PE showers. Loads of us used to just pretend to shower, we'd dampen our towels under the water and wet our hair a little bit but the confident ones would have proper showers.

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Wildlady · 01/04/2018 17:23

@Takeaweeseat

There is a thin line. I am strict and don't take no nonsense, but I'd be mortified to discover the children were scared of me.

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InsomniacAnonymous · 01/04/2018 17:25

JaceLancs "The teacher who hit me across the hands with a window pole - broke 4 fingers"

Shock What were the consequences for that bastard teacher?

ppeatfruit · 01/04/2018 17:26

A lot of the teachers were also terrible in the 50s and 60s. Probably worse because no one dared to complain. The appalling PE woman teacher (yes another one Angry who watched us in the showers and deliberately snatched OFF our towels when we came out of the swimming pool. She also enjoyed making rude personal remarks about our appearance.

The teacher who smacked me for getting a couple of maths corrections wrong. She put me off maths for a long time. I was such a quiet little mouse at school. Unsurprisingly .

gluteustothemaximus · 01/04/2018 17:29

The PE teacher who made me run 4 laps of the field because I asked to be excused because of my period.

I passed out with the blood loss.

Ah, memories Hmm

ppeatfruit · 01/04/2018 17:32

That's despicable glute did you tell on her?

BrownTurkey · 01/04/2018 17:36

I must have been lucky. Can’t think of a worst, just maybe some who were not so great on the discipline/ a bit ineffectual. All girls school, some male staff, none creepy.

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Wildlady · 01/04/2018 17:39

@glute

That is disgusting, were they female?

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LizzieDarcy1907 · 01/04/2018 17:44

We used to have a geography teacher, who was terrifying. He had a plimsoll on his desk that was either thrown at you, or used to slap you round the ears or on the leg with. We also had a PE teacher that had a group of 6th form girls to tutor..... he used to arrange lots of outside school events with them. Got at least 2 of them pregnant. Thank goodness things have changed since the early 80s.

ppeatfruit · 01/04/2018 17:45

Poor dh was force fed beetroot by a nun (a little sister of MERCY!!!!) when he was 4 yrs. old (till he was sick) and then she forced him to eat it . That really traumatised him.

He ran away from another strict school when he was older and was sent in for 6 strokes of the cane for accidentally dropping a glove on the cricket ground. He never went back.

Lunde · 01/04/2018 17:51

Well there was the headteacher who left his wife and family for a 6th former and ended up on the front pages of the Tabloids

.. or there was the teacher who ended up serving 5 years for child sex abuse

Gide · 01/04/2018 17:52

I struggle to see how you can run a productive class in complete silence

Which is why I can’t wait to get out of my current job. Having a silent classroom does not equal good teaching/progress in my opinion. My headteacher disagrees. My results say otherwise.

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Wildlady · 01/04/2018 17:57

@Gide

Totally agree, there are times I insist on silence. Friday afternoon I do like silence otherwise it can get out of hand.
I don't mind them quietly chatting though usually providing I'm not talking to the class and giving instructions.

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