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.....

Why not?

I know, I was being tongue in cheek. As in they should be using vibrators in their own rectums not mine.

Because if you google it, it’s the first thing that comes up on reddit. And from years ago. Most likely is they got it from there.

I once was a tutor in an online workshop, where the lead teacher told them some extremely inappropriate ways to remember primary secondary and tertiary alcohols, as well as how to remember the alcohol oxidation reactions. All about drinking to the point of vomiting ect. I was appalled.

I remember the difference between ureter and urethra because the teacher told us that the urethra thrusts 😱

So that could well be where the teacher got it from! It's quite likely the teacher found it there when planning the lesson.

Yeah that’s well out of line.

I remember “sex on hard concrete always hurts the orgasmic areas” for trigonometry. But the teacher never would have said it!

No, it’s because there’s a prolific history of sexual abuse at private boys schools.

I think you should drop the school a complaint email. Probably I will be accused of being over dramatic and causing a poor teacher to lose his job (I don’t think he should lose his job btw), but this is why:

• overly sexual jokes with children is a safeguarding issue
• it creates a culture that blurs the line between children and adults and normalises saying inappropriate things
• it indicates an issue with the safeguarding culture at the school

Teacher just needs taking aside and told not to use that line again. Teacher realises he can’t get away with saying and doing whatever he wants because other adults are monitoring his behaviour. I’m not saying his a predator, not at all, but I’m saying you want a school culture of accountability.

Tights come down, mights go up!

I am speechless

Our physics teacher used that, but with "bad boys" so marginally less extreme.

I can still identify a resistor 30 years later despite almost never needing to do so.

Keeping - Kingdom
Pants - Phylum
Clean - Class
Often - Order
Favours - Family
Good - Genus
Sex - Species

It's the order of classification.

Yes this is how I feel.

I'm not saying that any of those boys didn't know the items being referred to - but I known that at age 13 I would not have known and I would have been quite agog if any of my friends had gone on to tell me what it all meant.

(To those saying 'but, reddit' - I never claimed the teacher invented the phrase. There are many things he didn't invent that i would not be happy with him sharing with a Y9 child)

Or Kinky, Paul, Came, Over, For , Gay, Sex. Which is a lot easier to remember than King, Prawn, Curry, Or, Fat, Greasy, Sausages.

Sorry OP, but this has me in stitches! Thanks for the laugh!

I can see the funny side. I genuinely find it hard to judge things tho as I have a disorder of thinking

Ex-husband apparently told a version of that when he was teaching (he’s changed career now).

Put sand in her Vaseline …

Neither is appropriate for a class of school children though.

The Ureter goes TER (to) the bladder.
The Urethra goes THRA (through) the penis.