Kids Today

[hyperD]

Wooden rulers smite sharp on fearful hands,
Religious teachers preying upon your glans,
Slippers thwacked square on the arse,
Sulphuric acid shot over chemistry class,
Bunsen burners igniting wops of unruly hair,
Blackboard erasers thrown when you glare,
Swimming naked 'cos you forgot your trunks,
Stained grundies in PE 'cos you're a twunt.

That's what I go to school for.

[Dallas]

Nuns

[norrahe]

In primary school we had a teacher who used to rap you over the knuckles with a ruler, but apart from that it was fine.

[scooterscot]

I don't recall any teacher displaying ill-will and certainly not physical towards me. Perhaps an eraser went flying across the room in jest.

What goes on in other schools I don't know but my memory of our teachers as I recall was to treat us as equals. The education was there for those that wanted it and for those that din't the teacher kept them otherwise occupied so as not to disrupt. Now they work in the civil service.

[suityou01]

I don't recall any teacher displaying ill-will and certainly not physical towards me. Perhaps an eraser went flying across the room in jest.

What goes on in other schools I don't know but my memory of our teachers as I recall was to treat us as equals. The education was their for those that wanted it and for those that din't the teacher kept them otherwise occupied so as not to disrupt. Now they work in the civil service.

And you didn't want it, clearly

[scooterscot]

And you didn't want it, clearly

A real man makes his own luck, wouldn't you say?

[original PM]

In my first year at school, the teacher would make any kids who swore eat soap. I still remember this five year old boy chucking his guts up over the classroom sink!

Ah, "fond" memories - the large tail she pinned onto anyone who told tales. The nappy she pinned onto the boys who had their shirt untucked (she claimed it looked like a nappy). Very first day of school she lined us all up and whacked the wooden bench with a tennisette bat to illustrate what would happen to us if we misbehaved (and it did).

are you posh..?

did you go to St Trinians?

and wtf is tennisette!

[MyUserName]

No teacher ever really got physical with anyone in my school. The most they would do is drag someone around or maybe push them but I never saw a teacher actually hit a pupil.
I have no idea whether my secondary school was rough or not as it was the only one I went to.

However, Mrs MUN is a teacher and it is surprising how things have changed. When I was in school if you got a bad report and your parents queried it all they really got was 'that is my opinion and I am the teacher' whereas now Mrs MUN has to show metrics, plans, strategies etc.

However, parents are not as powerful as they think and she occasionally gets notes saying that a child will not be in on a certain day and they have the parents permission so it is not an absence. Mrs MUN has to explain that it is the school's decision whether it is an absence or not, not the parents. Another child has a letter from his parents saying it was okay for them to have orange squash in class, Mrs MUN wrote back saying 'No it's not' - that caused some fun.

Although to show the other side - she took over one class for a few days a couple of years ago and was warned that there was one pupil who was particularly disruptive. Mid way through the day he got up and started ripping his books up. It went:

Mrs MUN: "What on earth do you think you are doing?"
Pupil: "It's what I do"
Mrs MUN: "Not in my lesson! Sit down and get on with your work"

He sat down and she spent some time one on one with him showing him what he needed to do. The next day his parents came in to thank her and tell her how for pretty much the first time ever he had enjoyed school.

[doodab]

We had one chap who would shout "barbarians" and hurl board rubbers at anyone who was late or disruptive.

[alluvial]

He sat down and she spent some time one on one with him showing him what he needed to do.

Did it involve full body armour and a mace?