Strange things your teacher did? (MOD NOTE in op)

beggars_bush

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

A school in Raheny by any chance?

No! A long way from there actually

beggars_bush

beggars_bush wrote: »

No! A long way from there actually

Ah, sounded familiar. They must make woodwork teachers a certain way

Sgt Hartman

I had this terrifying wagon of a teacher in 3rd class in CBS Limerick who was not shy about using corporal punishment. She was a middle aged wan with a big bouffant head of black curls and a pair of dark sunglasses permanently affixed to her face. She had these knobbly rings on her fingers which would hurt a lot when she would knuckle you into the back of the head. I'll never forget the day she repeatedly slapped one of the kids into the back of the head after he was messing in class, she was clattering the head off him. She was a vicious bitch and I was terrified of her. This was back in 1988.
Her equally vicious daughter took over our class for about two weeks. She was another frustrated wagon with mad eyes and an 80's head of bouffant hair. She wouldn't hit us but her shrieking screams would curdle your blood.

NIMAN

Used to have a guy at secondary school who would send students across the street to the local shop to buy a lb block of cheese.

Occasionally also sent for fish and chips from the chipper.

L1011

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Ah, sounded familiar. They must make woodwork teachers a certain way

Same in my place, not a huge distance from, but also not really that near Raheny.

Throwing chisels, if he was absolutely sure they weren't going to hit anyone, was another. He'd then retrieve it and if it had been nicked by its ordeal of getting stuck in the floor/wall/desk, make a show out of sharpening it on the giant oilstone setup he had.

fryup

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

She was another frustrated wagon with mad eyes and an 80's head of bouffant hair. She wouldn't hit us but her shrieking screams would curdle your blood.

yep, thats it in a nutshell...sexless

they then take out their inner emotional frustrations on poor defenceless children

War ensemble

I was playing hurling for the school team and had a match after school so I had my hurl in with me. Anyway the Irish teacher took my hurl and started swinging it and pointing with it during the class, trying to look hard maybe. Who knows. Towards the end of class one of the guys near me was chatting or messing and the teacher hit him a fair crack of the hurl on his arm. He was in fair pain but the bell rang shortly afterwards and we left. I kinda forgot about it until a few days laterthe other lad arrives into school with a cast on his arm. The teacher had broken his arm. Needless to say the teacher **** a brick when he seen him. Offered to pay all the costs. Apologised etc. Unbelievably nothing happened to the teacher. No assault charge. Didn't lose his job. Nothing. I even heard he became vice principal before he retired !

Neames

A few Christian brothers used to beat the crap out of us.

Repressed men full of hate.

We didn't think it was strange at the time which is sad really.

I look at the education and care my daughter receives now and think to myself what a complete horror we went through.

Ten of Swords

A number of posts dropping hints about the identity of some teachers referred to in this thread have been deleted.

Anyone naming, or hinting at the identity of, teachers in this thread will face a minimum of a threadban

bnt

I spent most of my school years in South Africa, and in the equivalent of Fifth Class (I think) here, we had a female teacher who looked a lot like Bo Derek. (Look up some photos if you don’t know who that is.) Every other week (when it was warm enough) we would have a swimming class in an outdoor pool, and our teacher would put on a bikini and sunbathe while the rest of us swam.

I was one of the youngest kids in the class, too young to fully appreciate what I was looking at, but still have some memories. Some of the older boys would hang around her like flies, to the point where I remember her telling them to go away. I also remember she was just a good teacher in general, a bit of a hippie chick but very encouraging to shy kids like me. I literally can not remember anything about the teacher I had the following year, and then it was high school. The teachers there really made my earlier teacher stand out as very unusual, in a good way.

The Mighty Quinn

But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives!

bnt

Another “strange” thing a teacher did - still in South Africa, 2nd last year of high school. A few weeks in to the year we moved to a different part of the country, so I had to start in a new school where I knew no-one. In my second week there, first class on Monday morning was English: I arrive before the bell, and all the other students just sat there in silence, no-one saying anything. I had no idea what was happening, so I asked something like “what’s going on, who died?”

The English teacher had died, over the weekend. I was off to a good start...

Ryertex

First class in primary school when we went for PE the teacher would often have us practicing scrums with a basketball. It would have been late sixties in a CBS and I’m sure “the ban” was still in force so probably a bit unusual. I remember going home one day with a big bump on my forehead after the scrum collapsed onto the tiled floor.

Yeah_Right

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Ah well in all fairness I have a hundred stories of great teachers dragging me too grades I didn't think I could get or supporting me in education and personal issues beyond their professional responsibilities. That's just not what this thread is about.

Thankfully I don't have any stories like my partner who can point out past pupils who married / were actively and openly sleeping with teachers.

Fair enough. One story I remember that might fit... In 6th form (16-17 years old) we went on PE camp. about 100 students, maybe a dozen teachers all staying in old army barracks for 4 nights. It was a lot of fun (co-ed school ) Each afternoon a group of students and a couple of teachers would hike a couple of hours or so along the coast and over some hills to stay overnight in tents, cook on open fire etc. On the last night 2 of the teachers did the hike in the pitch dark and let down all the tents while people were sleeping in them and then hiked back.

I've just remembered that one of those teachers started dating the former deputy head-girl about a month after she graduated. He would have been late 20s or early 30s.

Feisar

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Fair enough. One story I remember that might fit... In 6th form (16-17 years old) we went on PE camp. about 100 students, maybe a dozen teachers all staying in old army barracks for 4 nights. It was a lot of fun (co-ed school ) Each afternoon a group of students and a couple of teachers would hike a couple of hours or so along the coast and over some hills to stay overnight in tents, cook on open fire etc. On the last night 2 of the teachers did the hike in the pitch dark and let down all the tents while people were sleeping in them and then hiked back.

I've just remembered that one of those teachers started dating the former deputy head-girl about a month after she graduated. He would have been late 20s or early 30s.

:pac::pac::pac:

Keyzer

I posted already in here but when I think back on my school days, its a miracle the teachers didn't box the head off us all day.

Some of the stuff we did was insane. We went through a phase of bring our mothers hairspray canisters into school, spray them on each other and then set each other on fire. Hilarious at the time.

ShatterAlan

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

As a teacher working in a very small school, I had to bring an infant to get their head stitched . It was pre-mobile phone times ( the school phone was the old black button a type)
I put the child lying on coats in the back seat of my car and drove to the gp in the nearest town . I ended up with the child sitting on my lap when they were being stitched.
Now, that story could be spun to be “ weird” in a more sinister sense , but the child’s mother actually got me a gift ( this was the early 90s, most unusual ) and wrote me a beautiful letter, which I still have .

Nice one. The little kid was probably frightened and upset and outside of sitting on a parent's knee while in a strange and scary place the next best thing would be a neighbour or teacher.



If it was my child I would have bought you a gift too.

Lollipops23

We had a physics teacher in the early 00s who looked like Hagrid. He let us play with liquid mercury. For the craic.

Ubbquittious

Im glad to see boards are still sticking up for the rights of violent school teachers. I was starting to feel sorry for them, imagine the horror in their eyes when they're sitting in their comfy armchairs at 80+ years old and discover all their dirty secrets are being spewed out on the public interwebs

Paddycrumlinman

6 of the best with two of those yellow wooden rulers. Teacher would make you put your hand out, 6 whacks, big ones and if you pulled your hand away he'd start from the beginning.

Same teacher is in prison for abusing boys, creepy person obviously.

PhilOssophy

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Im glad to see boards are still sticking up for the rights of violent school teachers. I was starting to feel sorry for them, imagine the horror in their eyes when they're sitting in their comfy armchairs at 80+ years old and discover all their dirty secrets are being spewed out on the public interwebs

Or rightly heading for the slammer in some cases

angel eyes 2012

We had a science teacher that was obsessed with films. Instead of learning about bunsen burners or whatever, he would roll in the tv and video and put the latest film on that he had watched the night before. It was usually an extra-vision rental.

He had a thing for Marilyn Monroe and the Curtis family for some reason. So there we were 20 or so ,15 year old girls watching Some Like it Hot and True Lies on repeat. We would have Roddy Doyle weeks too, the Snapper, the Commitments... and the teacher would give an indepth analysis of each film and the actors involved.

I dropped Science after the Junior Certificate as I knew the films would continue and I couldn't risk getting him again. But great times all the same.

kildare lad

In primary school we used to have a teacher who'd send you out to the shelter if you were talking in class . She come out and grab you by the top of the jumper and start shaking you back and forward telling you to stop messing . It'd actually be quite sore cause he wore lots of rings and they'd be digging into your shoulders everytime he was shaking you. We'd another teacher that used to pull you up out of the seat by the ears and throw you out of the classroom for talking ,

Its nothing compared to what happened my dad when they got in trouble . He said their teacher was an melted bxitch . She used to bring the kids underneath a bridge that was beside the school and whip them in the ass. I'd an uncle who got his jaw broken by a christian brother aswell. It's a bit more psychotic than strange I suppose.

AlejGuzman68

Woodworking teacher cut off 2 of his fingers being distracted by porn while using a band saw.

Purple Mountain

AlejGuzman68 wrote: »

Woodworking teacher cut off 2 of his fingers being distracted by porn while using a band saw.

We'll need more details...

AlejGuzman68

Purple Mountain wrote: »

We'll need more details...

we were too busy cutting pieces for a bird house when it happened. After it happened we went to his desk and saw the porno on his pc.

Purple Mountain

AlejGuzman68 wrote: »

we were too busy cutting pieces for a bird house when it happened. After it happened we went to his desk and saw the porno on his pc.

Who picked up the fingers for him?

AlejGuzman68

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Who picked up the fingers for him?

Well it wasn't us,we was too focused on the porn,lol.

Hangdogroad

One time in secondary school we got a temporary female religion teacher who was insanely attractive and didnt wear a bra. She was the spit of Theresa Lowe, would wear a tight sweater and her nipples were like bullets. It was nearly all too much for one fella sitting behind me who kept saying to himself "I'll suck her tits dry!".

kildare lad

AlejGuzman68 wrote: »

Woodworking teacher cut off 2 of his fingers being distracted by porn while using a band saw.

He never saw it coming