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?!

Oh and I cannot forget when I was benefit fraud investigator many years ago now going out to visit my old, sadistic PE teacher from that school. She had a debilitating spinal condition and was on incapacity benefit but had been reported for running aerobics classes on the side. We went out to visit her but managed to establish fairly quickly from seeing her and from medical evidence that it was a malicious allegation, there was no way she could have been doing what the informant claimed with the condition she had.

That really reminded me about treating others the way we want to be treated and that children grow up and can find themselves in positions of authority over those who were not nice. She recognised me and apologised if she had been harsh in the past. She had been harsh and I won't pretend that it didn't take a lot from me to be the bigger person and let it go. I still feel sorry for her - going from sports teacher to wheelchair bound must be horrific - although I cannot forget 30 years on being laughed at cos I couldn't do the high jump/long jump/cartwheel/backwards roll like my slender and lithe classmates and being called elephant, lump and fatso. I was a size 10 at age 11 tops.

My one moment of revenge/karma and I feel too sorry for her to even enjoy it!!

Knicker checks, we had to stand in a line and lift our skirts so the nuns could see if we were wearing regulation big pants.......weird!

History teacher had an affair with a pupil age 14?

Same teacher teaches at the school still :( My DC are now at the school.

I often wonder if the school know

My favouriate primary school teacher used to smoke his pipe in class. I used to take him a Christmas gift of tobacco!

Our primary school head mistress had a series of black standard poodles which she used to bring into school with her. The Ultimate Punishment if you'd been naughty in class was to be sent into her office to sit under her desk with the dog. Funnily enough I don't think any of us minded, particularly.

Infant school headmaster would regularly throw children across the hall if they were disturbing his assembly. Think he was jailed for fraud.

French teacher used to lock herself in the cupboard for ENTIRE lesson EVERY day. (Poor woman - I feel awful for her now and know bog all French).

Techy teacher who used to follow you into his cupboard to 'help' you find appropriate bits of wood. (He never followed me in - I had a very flat chest).

PE teacher who was shagged one of my mates at the leavers do.

Science teacher who regularly referred to pupils as 'spastics' and 'eppies'.

Lovely, lovely school chaplain who crashed us fags if we ran out.

History teacher who used something (vinegar?) on his belt to make it stand upright and stood you on a bucket prior to a belting.

I could go on and on and on. I went to a very classy school. Not.

Our Humanities teacher used to lift one boy, who had vey sticky-out ears, up by twisting them.
My metalwork teacher asked to see me on leaving day, when I went there (wondering what was wrong) he said he just wanted to have another look at me in my dress!
Same teacher used to constantly say girls should not be doing metalwork, and almost choaked when he announced that I had come first in a competition, it meant he had to "Give merit marks...to a GIRL!"

My primary teacher was unimpeachable but the one in the classroom next door used to smoke so much that there was a three-foot band of smoke below the ceiling, all the way down the corridor. I remember looking at it and thinking aha, what the fire brigade told us about "get down low and go go go" was right.

1970's:
My Mum's science teacher started an affair with a 15yo pupil, when he turned 16 they married. She still teaches at the school.

The head of upper school regularly threw male pupils across the common room.

My Mum & her classmates used to ask their Chemistry teacher a random question (e.g. 'Do you believe in ghosts?') He would then spend the whole lesson talking about his paranormal experiences while they lit cigarettes from bunsen burners.

Mum's DH had all kinds of tool launched at him in Woodwork classes if he wasn't paying attention.

1990's:
Primary school teacher & sports teacher had an affair. Became very public, sports teacher left.

2000's:
History teacher had an affair with Geography teacher before leaving her DH & kids to elope with him, they're now married with their own DC's & both still teach at the school.

Form tutor was exposed in the Sun for 'sexting' an underage pupil at his old school, swiftly jumped before he was pushed.

Physics teacher couldn't be bothered to teach us on more than a few occassions, spent the lessons watching films, listening to music, generally messing around.

Oh yes, almost forgot! The Graphics teacher who got her boobs out every year at the school prom.

The alcoholic art teacher who used to reek of stale beer (when he was actually there)

The newly qualified teacher who couldn't cope & once barricaded a class in a classroom by dragging a desk outside the door & sitting on it...

Where can I start.... what about the drama teacher who set us an improvisation task & then stripped down to his baggy Y fronts in the drama room to 'see if we would stay in character when distracted'. We didn't & got shouted at!

mid 80's our french teach would tap our legs and lift our skirts up with his walking stick. he was sacked from another school for flashing at young boys

History teacher that used to drink and smoke in the supply cupboard.He made history interesting though,love history to this day

German teacher who used to whack you round head with her handbag,which was always stuffed with food scraped off her plate in the dining hall

English teacher ( a priest ) who was so creepy/pervy that if you needed anything from his supply cupboard 1 of your mates would need something too so you didnt have to go in alone as he would follow you in

An extremely evil Re teacher ( a nun ) who threw stuff AT you,humiliated you ( or at least tried to,we were better at it than her :o ) and used to scream about how much she hated children and wed all end up in jail/on the dole/dead cos we were all so stupid

Ah happy school days

Maths teacher who taught classes with his cat curled around his shoulders.
Geography teacher who threw blackboard erasers at people, with fantastic aim.
Best was our 4th/5th yr science teacher who taught us how to make vodka, and mortar bombs.

When I was 5 years old, an older boy falsely reported to the headteacher that another boy and I had been misbehaving on the school bus.
The teacher called us out in assembly in front of the whole school (it wasn't a large school, but still!) and physically banged our heads together. We hadn't even been asked for our side of the story. Not that there was one, as we'd done nothing. I was too embarrassed to tell my parents. This was in 1981. I'm still not impressed to this day!

I had a teacher who smoked a pipe constantly through lessons.

And another one who threw a squash ball at you if you got an answer wrong - either you smartened up or developed excellent reflexes...

My old French teacher called a black boy a "n*g-nog" and made him stand in the bin...

Ouch.

This was around 1995 as well.

This same boy was dyslexic, as it turns out, but was never diagnosed as all the teachers simply thought he was "thick".

Happy days
Catch me up and preparing lessons at 5.30am back then. No room for eccentrics now, but it's good that the child abuse got stopped as well.

Year 6 girls used to have to make the teachers' tea and coffee at break time. We had a rota and use to leave class ten minutes before break started, so that it was all ready for 1030. We used to hate Mrs O'Callaghan and always used to spit in her cup.

A level economics in the 1980s, girls told not to turn up or to leave the lesson "as this bit will be too hard for you to understand." We didn't object, we were just glad to get out of the lesson. Unsurprisingly, none of us (girls) passed.

My primary teacher brought her pet snake into school to show everyone once.

Secondary school a maths teacher threw a table at a boy and chemistry teacher was arrested for having child porn on his computer and taking pics of kids at an early learning centre shop.

My mum went to a strict catholic school and every monday morning were asked if they went to mass the day before, anyone who hadn't got caned.
Mum said the only the school taught her was how to lie.

woodwork teacher who nicknamed me eskimo nell (there is a famous poem about a whore call eskimo nell). i had no idea who she was, my mum did and reported him

he would also disappear into his workroom with one of the girls from our class, she seemed much older than us (about 11 at the time) and they would often go off after school on his motorbike

last i heard was that he had a breakdown

Used to let the class rabbits out in the classroom for exercise.
Used to take the class on spontaneous excursions, to my garden on several occasions to look at environmental science in action.
Spend entire weeks following something that had caught the attention of the class, rather than everything being planned a month in advance.
Used hot glue guns and saws and dangerous implements in infant classes.
Built a kiln in the school grounds during a Romans topic and fired our own pots.
Nature table, with bacteria-ridden objects of fascination!

A young lad in our school - not very bright - head teacher called him out in assembly and made him bend over. Caned him for no reason.

Said "Did you like that Jones?"
"No sir"
"Well I better give you another then, so you learn to enjoy it"
Canes him a second time
" Did you like that Jones?"
"Yes Sir"
"Oh good, have another!"
(canes him again).

we were 8, year 3. Clearly I am still traumatised.

It's nowhere near as bad/funny (depending!) as most of these but one boy I taught told me in our last A level lesson that he'd always wanted to be taught by me when he was lower down the school because I was known as the English teacher who took her shoes off in lessons. I had never noticed or thought about it but it's true, I always teach bare foot. Don't know why!