Teachers in school

Firetrap

Did anyone have teachers in school that had something distinctive about them? When I was in third or fourth class, we had a nun who used to often ask us how many families had said the rosary the previous night (we lied!). Also, she used to ask how many of us were going to become nuns. Again, we lied (though does living stretches of my life like a nun count? ).

Then there was the teacher who used to tell us tall tales. My favourite was when she told us that another teacher in the school used to bring home the blackboard dusters to polish her shoes.

Ann22

I remember one used to slap us with the ruler on the hand. I remember well how I used to pull my hand away again and again. She only got angrier and angrier:mad:! She'd also rap us on the knuckles while she was over checking our work if she found a mistake:(.
We'd lots of temps too. One of them talked about Nigeria all the time, dunno why...she lived there before or something. She told us about some tribes having rings around their necks that would be removed if they did something bad...I was horrified at the image of a woman with her head dangling on a two foot long neck behind her :eek:. She hit me over the head with a book once, my mother went in about that too:o.
The worst was an ex nun...a nasty bit of work. She'd pick on a child for the day and spend ages giving out while the victim stood with tears dripping down...Useless teacher too, I had her in 5th and 6th class..never did maths either so I hadn't a baldy when I when I went to secondary. My mother went in (again:o) a few mths before we finished to give out.. I didn't know about it, I'd begged her since the year before not to go in to her. The teacher called me up in front of the class and cross examined me about what I'd been telling my parents. I was in a sweat. Next thing the principal wanted to see me. I sat shaking in the office while the kind woman tried to coax out of me why I was afraid to go to school. I wouldn't open my mouth. From then on 'til i left, the cow was all over me.

Lobelia Overhill

We'd a teacher who was a real bully boy, we had to sit bolt upright, facing the front of the room, both feet flat on the floor at all times when in his classroom. One evening he didn't hear the bell go and we were all sitting there getting more and more anxious as it was time to go home, like. Eventually he noticed we were fidgeting and there were kids running passed the door outside. None of us dared say a word to him, and most of us missed our buses home :mad:

He also had a habit of making us all sit in silence, then staring around the room till he made eye contact with some poor sod, then he'd get into a staring match with them, which he always won. Until he picked on me. Being short sighted I'd a nine inch stare at the best of times so I just sat there. He eventually looked away. I dunno if anyone else in the class noticed or not, he did try outstaring me several times and never "won". :cool:

jays he was a bastard

steveone

one bastard in primary had a beige jumper we called the murder jumper- every time he wore it someone would get thrashed about like a rag doll..

Trained Monkey

one of the more bizarre things one of my teachers tried was banning us from watching Fr.Ted because of the way it portrayed the catholic church!:rolleyes: Funny thing was that when she first banned it I actually hadnt heard of it but once it was banned I had to see it, now I can almost rhyme off ever episode!:)

Ruu_Old

We had a teacher who used to make us go to mass every morning before school and if we didn't she would shame us into going. I wanted to play football.

We had a history teacher who used to have one of those metal rulers which he called madame guillotine. He would lash it down on your knuckles. It looked like it hurt. Our english teacher used to throw dusters at the class morons but he was a legend.

mud

My brothers had a female teacher who had a big rock of an engagement ring . . . which she dug into them if they did anything bold/didn't do their homework/looked at her funny

couple of their mates still have scars, she drew blood the b1tch! :mad:

Monkey61

Ooh we had a teacher who would sellotape people's mouths shut if they were talking when they weren't meant to be! I imagine parents would have a field day with that now...

Lobelia Overhill

isn't it amazing what we used to put up with in school ... ?

az2wp0sye65487

The teachers may have been tough... but there were far fewer mini-criminal kids running wild on the streets! bring them back I say!

Lobelia Overhill

Damn good point!

I don't agree with corporal punishment as such (some teachers were fecking sadists) but a good bit of discipline wouldn't go astray with kids these days.

steveone

Brysen Nutty Driveway wrote: »

The teachers may have been tough... but there were far fewer mini-criminal kids running wild on the streets! bring them back I say!

sorry man but some of the biggest (or lowest) names in dublin were in my class in primary in finglas. they might not have been criminal kids but they made up for it like...

madra-rua

When I was in 5th class I had a crazy teacher. She used to tell us that we should eat compost from the garden and it's even better if it has insects in it. She used to freak out if you walked in front of her and she'd scream "Don't walk on top of meeeee!"

Also one day we were learning our spellings and one of them was 'indian'. She turned around to the sink for ages and then when she looked around she had drawn red lines all over her face with lipstick and she started dancing around the classroom shouting "Look at me, I'm an indian!!!"

Then she told us not to tell any of the other teachers what she'd done.

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