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ds humiliated at school by teacher

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QueenEagle · 13/07/2005 21:27

ds1 apparently recited his times tables wrongly at school yesterday and the teacher made him sit in the corner with a dunces hat on.

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PrincessPeaHead · 13/07/2005 21:35

balderdash

MarsLady · 13/07/2005 21:35

careful coddy, no swearing. This isn't my computer and it has netNanny!

fishfinger · 13/07/2005 21:35

dont belive it

adn the teacher didnt htink naything was wrong
crap crap crap

MarsLady · 13/07/2005 21:35

I love that word PPH

fishfinger · 13/07/2005 21:36

but he is 11 fgs ge should knwo his 2 time s table
( runs)

Lonelymum · 13/07/2005 21:37

I think so too. It was only the 2 times table after all. I would worry more about the school's ability to teach rather than its methods of punishment.

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QueenEagle · 13/07/2005 21:37

Exactly coddy.

Totally deserved it IMO.

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fishfinger · 13/07/2005 21:38

I think oyu ahev made this up

Hulababy · 13/07/2005 21:38

By sounds of it, it wasn't that he didn't know his 2 x tables, but said them in the wrong way - didn't chant them 1 times 2 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4, etc. Instead he wrongly just said 2, 4, 6...

hercules · 13/07/2005 21:38
Shock
Lonelymum · 13/07/2005 21:39

Sloppiness is the root of all that is wrong with our society.

MarsLady · 13/07/2005 21:39

I think you're messing with my mind QE.

Where's CSI when I want it?

Caligula · 13/07/2005 21:39

What d'you mean it's true? Was he rehearsing a play?

Puff · 13/07/2005 21:39

It's got to be a "Victorian School Day" re-enactment as other have said. I've taken Y5's on one of these outside school. However, teacher's know what should and shouldn't be re-enacted - did the teacher get carried away? It does happen.

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QueenEagle · 13/07/2005 21:40

He knew the 2x tables....teacher objected to the way he recited them

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Lonelymum · 13/07/2005 21:41

You have to have discipline in schools. Have any of you seen the shambles that goes on in our modern education system?

Puff · 13/07/2005 21:41

I'm going to watch my grass grow

hercules · 13/07/2005 21:42

Discipline is not the same as humiliation.

PrincessPeaHead · 13/07/2005 21:42

it is one of my faves marslady.

I was going to say "codswallop" but for some reason thought the better of it. "Piffle" is equally embargoed but how about...

poppycock

MarsLady · 13/07/2005 21:51

love it pph!

Also love twaddle (as in load of...)

Caligula · 13/07/2005 21:53

Quite right LM, it's outrageous that she only put him in the corner - she should have caned him. Lax lax lax.

So come on QE, tell us the real deal?

hercules · 13/07/2005 21:53

Comeon, QE, tell us what really happened.

PrincessPeaHead · 13/07/2005 21:53

ooooh, twaddle is good.

bunkum

hogwash

claptrap

baloney

Lonelymum · 13/07/2005 21:55

I always felt that things began to go wrong when corporal punishment was abolished. I am not so much in favour of the cane, but as a deterrent, I bet it made children think twice. It was sill around when I was a school girl.

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QueenEagle · 13/07/2005 22:05

His teacher got her cane out as well when he didn't underline his name with a straight line.

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