If you work in education has any child gone on to be famous or notorious?

[SpecialKCat]

Having a chat with a colleague today and she said that a child we taught she thought would be a famous footballer when older.

I just wondered if anyone, who works in education, has taught a child who went on to become famous or notorious?

I wonder if that is the same one I went to school with. His dad owned a shop in our town and used to display one of his karts in the shop window.

the Influencer Lydia Millen and I’ve got a colleague who taught Prince George

@sparepantsandtoothbrush well I taught Winston Churchill and Napoleon Bonoaparte! Hope you don’t think I’m making that up 😳😳😂?

Bet she didn’t speak like that when she was at school 😉

@Biscuitsneeded

I went to Kc and your mum was my French teacher
A few year's younger than Sophie .

2 BBC presenters ( one in their 20s, the other in their 30s) I taught them Media Studies.

I used to teach literacy and writing in a prison, so one or two high-profile inmates over the years.

No but I worked with my local labour MP. The stories I could tell...😂

@Biscuitsneeded
Actually I think she was my form tutor one year too
A lovely lady

I think most of my pupils ended up in jail but of my son’s friends - a top cardiologist, an author and a journalist on the Times. A friend of mine taught one of the Bader Meinhoff gang to speak enough English to hijack a plane (he didn’t know that was why she wanted to learn English)

Wow! What are the chances of two people on this thread coming from the same small school and knowing my little mum?! She's still going strong, happily, although she's even more microscopic these days.

Wow! Small world. I got a B in French O'level thanks to your Mum I was there 1972-1979.

I'm not a teacher but I was a helper for a kids choir - one of our former young lads now grown up played Glastonbury last year, and one of our former young ladies was in an ensemble at the proms

@changer121 👋

A child I taught in my first year of teaching, in a Year 3 class (so nearly 30 years ago now) went on to rape and murder 2 women in my hometown 😢 I referred him to the SENCo at the time, as I was convinced he was a psychopath- and was told that there was no such diagnosis in children (still true now, but as a new teacher I didn't know that). I got no help with this boy and by the time he was in Year 5 staff were scared of him. I read about the murders in our local paper and he was described there as a psychopath - he was 22 when he committed these awful crimes. I do wonder if things might have been different if he'd been diagnosed with 'something' earlier.

What a coincidence. I'll tell my mum, she'll be pleased! I'm a teacher too, and it's sometimes a pretty thankless task, but when you hear that someone remembers your mum almost 50 years later, you realise it's actually a privilege to have such influence in young lives. Thank you!

I'm not a teacher, I was in school with, and until a few years ago, in touch with a notorious met officer who's been imprisoned for many years quite recently.
Fucker

I taught a love island contestant. They were a really nice hard working and well behaved Y4 child!

I have taught several who have made local and national press for very, very bad reasons. Teaching SEN in SEBD.

Wow @spanieleyes did you notice anything about them?

Not a teacher, but my granddad was the dentist of the little girl in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Pm for later

@GuyFawkesDay HGS?

Not me but a colleague taught Daniel Craig

I taught one of those wallies who glued themselves to a painting.