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Mumsnet users discuss phrases that teachers always say

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EllieMumsnet · 20/04/2018 12:13

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With National Teacher Day coming up on the 8th May MNHQ would love to know the phrases you remember your teachers always saying….also if you are currently a teacher please share the phrases you most commonly use during your classes.

Do you have strong memory of one of your teachers always using the ‘I’m not angry just disappointed’ line? Perhaps whenever your teacher was annoyed at someone they would say ‘It’s your own time your wasting’? Or maybe as a teacher you’re becoming known for saying one phrase in particular?

Whatever phrases you remember your teachers always saying, comment on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £100 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!
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Angelil · 25/04/2018 21:02

"This is a really/especially important year for reason XYZ"...at the start of every year of education.

emmalou9 · 25/04/2018 21:14

If you waste my time, I'll waste yours.

lolamia91 · 25/04/2018 21:56

if only you out as much concentration into your work as you do talking!

TutsiFrutsi · 25/04/2018 22:30

'You could talk the hind leg off a donkey'!

Deedemps10 · 26/04/2018 05:00

Oh my days, this is taking me back to secondary school..... But my English Teacher said this quote every class I had with her.
"It's okay not to know,but it's not okay not to try.!"
And let me tell you, that little saying she use to say made such a difference and made me push myself more. Thank you kindly Mrs Rutter I say. Star

hayzifantayzi · 26/04/2018 08:20

When it was the end of the day and the teacher was annoyed one time. And school finished at 3.55pm. And the teacher realised people who caught a school bus might be late if he didn't let them go, so allowed them to go but not anyone else... The class clown piped up, "But sir, my bike leaves at 4 o'clock." It still makes me laugh 40 years later.

Tkw2014 · 26/04/2018 10:50

"A pleasure to teach"
"Each minute of my time you waste will be a minute of your break time wasted"
"Stop rocking on chairs"

bec4everuk1 · 26/04/2018 10:51

"It's my job to teach and your job to learn" use to be a classic one.

I hated school and people use to say they would be the best years of your life, things we're definitely easier back then with no adult worries :P x

Ranita · 26/04/2018 12:44

"Where are your manners? Over the wall picking apples are they?"
This one always wanted to make me laugh.My infant school teacher said this all the time!

lfcvicki · 26/04/2018 12:54

Can we use our "indoor voices" please. I do try this at home but it never works as well!

Mxyzptlk · 26/04/2018 13:56

I'm not going to spoon feed you.
Don't turn on the waterworks. (to a primary pupil starting to snivel during a telling off).

CoffeeOrSleep · 26/04/2018 14:22

"It's your own time you're wasting."

prakattack · 26/04/2018 15:44

The bell is for me not you!

vickyors · 26/04/2018 16:06

You'll get there. It's a marathon. Not a sprint.

Suggs44 · 26/04/2018 17:39

My teachers used to say,quiet please or leave the classroom,or just throw the blackboard rubber at me 😣😣

lalalauren416 · 26/04/2018 19:38

I'm ashamed to say as a teacher I use most of these!
The one I hate hearing myself say is "It's your own time you're wasting!"

cheekychicken24 · 26/04/2018 21:28

As I was saying, before I was RUDELY interrupted

and

It's your time you're wasting!

Haffdonga · 26/04/2018 22:37

You wouldn't write on the furniture/ burp/ fart/ swear/ do that at home, would you?

(Erm, yes)

claireyjs · 26/04/2018 22:42

If you want to spend your break time with me then please, carry on...
Show me the journey...(maths teacher wanting to see workings out)

sweir123 · 26/04/2018 23:32

The bell is for me not for you

sadiewoohoo · 27/04/2018 00:06

I always remember my teachers saying 'would you jump off a cliff if so and so told you to?' in response to someone blaming another child for telling them to do something wrong

BasiliskStare · 27/04/2018 02:14

"if you would concentrate for a moment you might be in danger of learning something "

BasiliskStare · 27/04/2018 02:15

said to me , I am not a teacher Blush

lonelywolf · 27/04/2018 06:51

Last year it was "No dabbing in the classroom!" This year it has become "No flossing in the classroom!" Kids think it's hilarious every time I say it.

Shockers · 27/04/2018 07:14

Folds arms and adopts poker face.

“I’ll just wait.”