Inappropriate mnemonic from school?

[Angelofmycoins]

Son is doing exams Y11 - he has just told me they were taught this mnemonic in science (physics?) when they were in Y9:

'Gay X-men Use Vibrators In My Rectum'

(for remembering types of waves ie gamma, x, uv etc)

Aibu in thinking its inappropriate? He did remember it so he argues it worked!

For context, fee paying school, all boys.....

So this was 2 years ago?? Doubt it really was the teacher who said it.

I learnt the mites go up and the tights come down back in the 70s. Still use it to remember which is which. Nothing to do with misogyny in my case. I was at an all girls' school, taught by female teachers, so no boys to snigger. I honestly.until this thread did not even consider it rude, let alone misogynistic. Society has become incredibly sensitive.

Re the OP, yes, it is shocking, but I think you would be shocked what 13 year old boys talk about when they are alone.

Teacher here, I’ve definitely heard a teacher saying this one to their class. Not sure why everyone is assuming they haven’t said it. I refused to say it with my class, but didn’t feel the need to report it.

Please click on 'See all' because the circumstances of how it came about are fully explained.

Troll hunters are just annoying - report the post if you think its bollocks and mn will look into it.

Mine is 'please stick your cock here' for psych 😂

Clicked on this thinking it would be primary and you were getting upset about my very elderly mother just strangled Uncle Neil's parrot.(Although recently she has had to move on to homicide and strangle Uncle Neil.) But clearly that is tame these days. 😁

This definitely not from a teacher one of his mates maybe!!

Thank goodness for my science teacher who taught me that stalactites hold tight to the ceiling and stalagmites, might one day join them if they grow tall enough!

Not inappropriate. In school I was taught "Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly" for the resistor colour code, which is just a little too far...

Are you certain it was taught by a teacher and not from peers?

@Angelofmycoins I think I might use that one for my lessons! 😂

Were they actually taught that or told to make up their own mnemonic? My Y11s usually make their own one up and come up with something similar. V for vagina is usually a favourite.

To be honest, as long as they can remember the order of the EM spectrum then I don't mind. I tell them to write it very discretely in the back of their book if it's rude.

I give them "Rubbish Men Inevitably Visit Ugly X Girlfriends"

Just s little....????

Yes, that one was well off. To mitigate him slightly, he never gave any suggestion whatsoever of being creepy or inappropriate in his behaviour towards the children - I think he liked humour and heard a lot of jokes from the pub (he was a local CAMRA stalwart), and he didn't filter the ones that were less than family friendly.

Most of the jokes were fine dad-joke style groaners. Before Christmas every year, he put up a home-made poster in the window of the chemistry lab saying "We wish you a very happy and phosphorus new year!"

Apart from the questionable jokes, he was a really fun, kind-hearted teacher - larger than life, really. He had a pet python which he sometimes brought in with him to show us. He put it in a suitcase (with air holes) and strapped it to the back rack on his motorbike - once the case came open en-route and all of the other motorists were hooting at him as the snake rose up!

He also home-made an elaborate Blockbusters machine - with a letters grid generated on an old-school computer program - and often let us learn new chemistry facts in a fun way as we played. I absolutely loved that.

I created a mnemonic for myself when I did A level law (or maybe the O level)
Remembered the mnemonic, this thread just forced me to look up which act & what Twelve Ducks Quacked and Flew South did stand for.
It was 40+ years ago😋

You know that didn’t happen

King Penguins Can Only Feed Giant Seaguls

Ok - please tell me what these mnemonics mean!! Ducks, penguins and all

Should have added to my post, it was how we remembered to do Trigonometry SOHCAHTOA. No idea who thought of it, but it clearly worked for remembering it!

Woah! There is a line and that is waaaay over

(Quote fail but probably just as well)

Mine was a Biology one for the classification of living things:
Kingdom eg Animal
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus eg Homo
Species eg Sapiens

(Can't remember any of the ones in between).

Lumbricus Terestris is earth worm.

Think that's all I have left of GCSE and A Level biology - and to think, at the time I wanted to be a biology teacher.

@noworklifebalance

Twelve Ducks Quacked and Flew South

section 12 of the 1979 sale of goods act Title to the goods being sold
s13 - sale by Description
s14 - Fitness for purpose
s 15- Sale by sample

I passed :)

😂 that’s quite funny

I did bits of Law at Uni - still can't watch Legally Blonde without panic attacks at the lecture hall bit with the scary lecturer

King prawn curry or fat greasy sausages!

For what it's worth when I started teaching a lifetime ago the same mnemonic was used for EM spectrum but I couldn't bare to ever use it despite how memorable it would be so hard a car more boring one to use!

This thread has been educational in many ways!

And, as an aside, my posts turned purple for a brief time now back to green - not sure why.
Spoke too soon - purple again.