Weird things your teachers did, which they would be fired for today.....

[muriel76]

Bit of a random question, but I was chatting with an old school friend the other day and we were remembering our teacher at primary school having a new bathroom fitted and she wanted to check how the workmen were doing.

The whole class was told to 'line up at the door' and off we marched down the road to her house, with teacher leading the way (small town BTW she lived near the school!) but no other adults in sight.

We then all sat in her back garden while she chatted to the plumber!

Ok this was back in the 80s but it made me think - you would never get away with this today.

Anyone else got a similar story from before the days of the national curriculum and parental consent forms etc?!

my RE teacher knocked a boy out by hitting him on the head with a bible!

2nd year junior teacher yr 4 now? held a theiving boy upside down by his ankles and shock his loot out of his pockets , he is now deputy head at my dds primary school.

3rd yr juniour yr3 now beat me around the head and arse for laughing in class, my mum did actualy call the police but settled for a public appology. he is now very poorly with parkinsons but taught up untill 5 years ago. He also hit boys on the bare bottom, in the dark room with a footall boot

secondary school science teacher held people by the head and upper body over the 5th floor window when he lost control of class.

male PE teacher used to watch girls get dressed and undressed into spare PE kit if you had forgotten yours and do a lap of play ground get changed and unchanged and another lap etc.

RE teacher used to lend us mony for fags bus fare and say ill be had if you tell anyone.

Father XXX used to hit us with a bamboo caine even after out lawed.

fuck me thats shocking, I could go on aswell .

notnowimreading I went to your school.

When I was 8 or 9, the class teacher used to bring her 4 year old into school sometimes, and one of us would have to take her to the toilet when she needed it (the child, not Mrs P!)

Teachers frequently gave children lifts

Lots of banter at school plays, "anyone want touching up" from the teacher with make-up, "here's the Bunny girl" to the one playing Mrs Rabbit etc, much of the 70s was like that though (this was when the benny Hill show was top viewing)

I had a drama teacher(outside school) who as part of character building made a 13 year old girl improvise in a room with an 17 year old boy.

In the play we were doing there was the insinuation of rape. She made them think about the fear and upset etc this would cause and did an in-depth workshop with them, where the 17 year old was told to scare the girl to help her character know how it would feel!!!! she was 13!!! she had issues with it for some time after

There was the arts teacher who used to ask you to pin up peoples paintings and look up your skirt.
There was the mad french teacher who used where a gown but mostly had it tucked in to her knickers post bathroom visit.
There was the mad nun who thought nothing of fecking a duster at you for getting the answer wrong.
There was the old house master who decked one of the lads as he creeped up behind him to say boo ! ( we were 14 and he said he felt threatened! ) Same man had a fist fight with another pupil when we were 16 !

I forgot about the outside lesson sitting on fibre glass ( still scratching) this was the 70's ! Fibreglass and crimplene ouch!

our geography teacher who belted children every class. one day he belted 13 of the 15 boys in my class for various misdemeanours relating to having forgotten something from their pencil case.

Needless to say, we were all very scared of him (and learned very little in his class).

Year eight french a teacher who would double the amount of time it took the last person to get to the class room at lessen change overs and keep us back it was a five minute walk between sites and you were not allowed to leave until the bell went. He also went really nuts when on the first lesson some of the new members of the class got bad marks in a test thing is we had all been doing the subject for two years but they had never done it.
Was told off because i missed his lessons one week was on a school trip to France at the time he did hit people and was actually sacked at the end of the year.
Year 6 was told off in front off the old school beacuse my little brother had run across the road now he was in the infant school which was seprate it was my fault for not taking him to school i think not i went to school with my friends and he should had been walking with our childminder. Mum did phone the school and made him say sorry in front of the school.
Same had used to have a head teacher time with us mainly was watching some preschool show we were 11. He would check our books for any waste of space we had to draw a line under a bit of work then start the next peice straight under it
one history teacher would make us run around the playground if she thought we were not working hard enough.
English teacher would give us fifty spelling a week then do a massive test every six weeks often adding words not on the list
Being made to walk through the showers with games staff cheering after we had done it we did have single showers with curtains but were never allowed to use them.
One teacher banned me from dance for laughing with my friends while we were changing was brillant i got banned for a term used to find some where quiet and do my home work
The maths class that was so easy used to do the work while she was explaining stuff and do more home work after that

We made beer in chemistry in the 3rd year of senior school (year 9?), and were all invited to bring an empty lemonade bottle to school when it was ready to take some home "for our dads". Not sure many bottles made it home...

It was 1984, by the way...

We had a science teacher called Mr Nellor who was a huge anti-apartheid activist, he would rant about the evils of racism every lesson.
Once he was late for class and one of the lads drew a huge picture of him on the board dressed as a Klu Klux Klan member, it didn't go down well.

I remember my P2 teacher punishing one of the boys in my class (age 6) by holding him upside down by his ankles for over a minute

It was the late 80's but even so!

When I was in the top class at my primary school we got jobs to do, such as answering the door to visitors & making coffee for the teachers in the morning (popular one this, as you missed the last 15 minutes before break). Once a week I got sent up the road to the TSB with my friend Susan, with a big bag of cash from the school savings scheme.

Had some dodgy teachers in secondary school:

Had a teacher who perved over all the girls constantly and turned up to the local pub often and bought us drinks (when we were 15/16)

Had a teacher who blatantly smoked weed in the staff gardens after school.

Teachers bought us alcoholic drinks at our leaving party (we were 16 ).

in primary school the Headteacher used to bring you into her office on your birthday and let you pick Quality streets out of a big tin (six if you were six years old, seven if you were seven etc). She did this while casually chuffing on a Silk Cut

Male teachers always seemed to be going out with the 6th form girls. There were priests involved too. We thought it was normal.

We had a teacher who only had one eye. If you misbehaved she would call you up to the front of class and make you look inside the empty eye socket!

I had several teachers who put misbehaving boys in the cupboard, or on a stool in the corridor. I had make up physically removed by a teacher with cotton wool and body lotion at 18, as did anyone caught wearing anything more than minimal make-up, and you were sent home if you didn't wear opaque tights from third year and above. i left school in 2000 so this wasn't that long ago! to be honest I haven't been permanently scarred and don't think the strict policies on behaviour were a bad thing.

Art teacher at my secondary school used to take pics of First-Years dressed as 'fairies'.
Actually they were diaphanous nighties and nightgowns.
And he had the gall to invite the parents to the slideshow...

When we got to year 6 we were assigned a job to do.
Sounds fine in principal until you discover that these jobs included scraping the plates of the entire lunch hall, answering the phones in the office while the secretary had lunch and cleaning the infant classrooms!

jenfraggle, I had the communal shower thing even more recently. But there was an added extra. We had one particularly evil teacher. She would intently watch to make sure you had a shower completely naked. If she had to leave the room for any reason, and you had only a skimpy shower or pretended or wore clothing, she would make you stand naked in the shower, facing the rest of the class until everyone else had finished. That was in 2003.

I can't believe none of us said anything. She would have been instantly fired, but w were terrified of her and never questioned her authority. She was just generally a bit strange. Wore incredibly short gym skirts and very brightly coloured gym knickers as everyday clothes. Lovely when you saw her bending over in Sainsburys on a weekend

I was at an all girls school. We had a male Physics teacher who used to demonstrate wave motion using one of those slinkies, you know the long wavy spring things. He'd throw it across the science bench and move it around shouting "See girls, the more you wiggle it, the kinkier it gets!!" and winking. He also tried to demonstrate energy dispersal by karate chopping a block of wood in half, shouting "HIIIYAAA!"

In Primary 2 (aged 6) the staff couldn't be bothered answering the phone at lunch/break time, so they'd choose one of us to stay inside by the phone and answer it while they stood outside smoking.

There was a craze for doing oujia boards and once a classmate and I were doing one on an exercise book with a coin in a maths lesson. It really seemed to work and we got scared and told the very kindly (pushover) teacher. She came over and started praying for us and speaking in tongues.

My mum went to boarding school where they had to eat every scrap of food. She is allergic to bananas, they make her sick and so was her friend. When they were both sick they said she was showing off and her friend was copying. They would keep uneaten banana in their mouths through prayers before getting rid in the loo.

Every morning they had to completely strip and remake rhe bed and wash with a Victorian style jug/ bowl combo with freezing water.

I did supply last year in a school where kids were manning the phones, they loved it!

Names written on boards still happens as does having no shoes on in class in some schools including where I work now

Remember having chalk and board rubber thrown in class. Years above me at primary school got the training shoe on their behinds, but think this was just before it was banned.

Secondary English teacher was a creep. Female classmate helped him to get books out of the cupboard for the class to be told "hold these against your fair bosom" or something equally creepy - aged about 14. Allegedly he then had an affair with someone a year younger than us (6th former) and ran off with her. Girl in question was about the same age as his eldest daughter.

Secondary French teacher was doing mock oral exams for A-Level French - standard role play stuff. He started to get a bit, well, "ooh-laa-laa" shall we say (verbally, in French, no touching!). Told him to F*ck off (in French of course!). Bit dodgy and the sort of thing that I think he might be sacked for now. Nice bloke, rubbish teacher.

I have no idea what U-shaped showers are. I'm not sure I'd like to know... Luckily we were never forced to use the showers at school, something I will always be grateful for. I would have quite literally died of embarassment as I was such a prude, I couldn't wear spaghetti strapped tops for fear of showing a bra strap

Always feel v uneasy about young teachers, fresh out of uni - its not unreasonable for a 22 year old to date an 18 year old in any other context, but its just so wrong on so many levels in schools. I have known a number of young teachers (mostly male) who have started dating 18 yos and quite frankly, they should just learn to say no and keep it in their pants!