Thinking of the thread earlier in the week I am teaching tomorrow in a leapard print dress and patent heels.

[twinsetandpearls]

Am i harlot who is corrupting the youth. I will be teaching about Jesus, does that add to my crimes?

That was me told Waynetta, it is more that I can't type rather than not spell. I don;t teach typing I teach Religion and philosophy. Surely I should be able to badly type when posting in an excited rush without being pulled up because of my job.

I know why I was typed it wrong as well because I knew a grumpy pedenat would pop up for a touch of teacher bashing that I was concentrating on typing leopard rather than leopord which resulted in me substiuting both os for an a.

Oh for goodness sake Waynetta. Shall we start the old "teachers must be perfect" ad nauseum argument again?

Twinset - enjoy your dress!

Is a "pedenat" someone who's very interested in feet? I think they must have popped up because of the footwear you were describing earlier.
Just joking.
Off to pedant's corner.

There's a lecturer where I work who wears very fitted wiggle dresses and sky scraper killer heels regularly. Sometimes she looks fab, sometimes she can look inappropriate especially if the dresses are cut low at the front. Guess what her subject is!

DD1 has a teacher who wears brightly coloured tights. She comes home and tells me what colour they were today. The bright blue looked good apparently, the mustard not so much.

lol pinked I may give up

I do wear fitted wiggle dressed and scraper heels, they are my trademark. I always wear a cami top or similar underneath and sometimes top up with tit tape. Kids like a real person teaching them with interests and their own funny ways not a robot in yet another Next washable suit.

Is she another RE lecturer boogiewoogie.

Exactly Lady I have a little fan club who have lunch in my classroom who give me a commentary on what works and what doesn't.

Mustard tights are horrible imho. The pupils always comment most positively on my purple ones and on some black diamond patterned ones that I wear with a long-ish black pencil skirt in a sort of retro secretary way.

I can't imagine mustard tight tbh, I have raspberry pink, red, purple, teal, grey and brown.

Nope TSP, keep going

Textiles or Art, always a fair bet for outlandish dress

Women's studies?

I think I have to share my most embarrassing moment as a pupil. I was about 14 and my English teacher caught me passing my friend a note in class.
It read: How can she wear those shoes with that skirt.
She read it in silence and took no action (I was expecting detention at least) but after lunch I saw her and she had changed her shoes.
I almost died of shame.

That is awful LadyGlencora.

I am sure some pupils don't like what I wear that is what comes from not being bland.

A pupil once said to me
"You look so nice Miss but you do wear things that people would wear to go out, why?"

I replied
"Because I am old, have no life and never go out so if I don;t wear them here I never will"

I expected her to say Oh don;t be daft miss you are not old but she agreed whole heartedly.

You do have to be very confident to teach, within the island that is my classroom I am brimming with confidence, it is very odd that I have zero confidence in my personal life.

Oh my word. I have just had flashbacks to Mrs Irvine, my 1st year English teacher. She was a big fan of the exciting tight - in the days when exciting tights had little clusters of diamante at the ankle or an occasional paisley swirl.

I am and always have been deeply ashamed Twinset
On the positive side, I never passed notes in class again.

"The job is about promoting the school and using displays to promote achievement. Very visual and arty so a bland outfit would not do."

Do you think the Head will like the leopard-print display and think it appropriate for someone promoting the school? I realise most schools are like zoos these days but it might not be politic to advertise that!

having read more of the thread now, I think Boogiewoogie might be an English teacher - my English teacher was into, shall we say, flamboyant clothes!