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DarrenSV650S
09-04-10, 09:20 PM
Do you ever feel the need to apologise to one of your teachers because of the way you treated them?
We had this French teacher in high school and she just got the p155 taken out of her every lesson and nobody learned a thing. But it was only because she was such a nice person that she wasn't able to "scare" people in to behaving.
She tried to control the class but she couldn't. We didn't give a cr@p about learning French and just saw the class as a waste of time. Thinking back, I can tell she was passionate about teaching the French language as she spent a lot of time over there. And now, I would really like to be able to speak the language and wish I had payed more attention.
I feel bad for her :(
beabert
09-04-10, 09:27 PM
Nope, i never went through a 'naughty' stage, always behaved. People do many stupid things when they are younger, i have never understood why. I think alot of its nature, as my brothers are; and always were complete *******s lol, so much so im changing my name to disasociate myself from them!
-Ralph-
09-04-10, 11:32 PM
Now that question could only have been asked by one of our younger members!
There are many teachers that need to apologise to me, today they'd be in jail! ;-)
Von Teese
10-04-10, 05:54 AM
Nope!
I was a little angel at school, was in the 'A' class, got really good grades to go to university and was always polite to the teachers.
Over in South Africa if you misbehaved you got a beating - first from the teacher, then possibly from the headmaster/mistress and lastly from your parents when you got home after the school had rung them and told them.
Milky Bar Kid
10-04-10, 06:00 AM
Nope, I was also a nice child. Got on so well with one that I am now good friends with her.
speedplay
10-04-10, 06:37 AM
No. I hated school and even though I got great results, I was only there because I had to be there.
I did meet my physics teacher about 6 years after leaving school in a pub one evenin and bought him a pint.
I told him that he was the best teacher I had at that school and that it was a shame that more teachers didn't have his approach to teaching.
He made me enjoy his lessons and want to be there.
Bluefish
10-04-10, 06:57 AM
Now that question could only have been asked by one of our younger members!
There are many teachers that need to apologise to me, today they'd be in jail! ;-)
right on, they owe me for hanging me up on the hook behind the door, never mind the slipper the canes and the rulers, owch.
I've nowt to apologise for. I was the quiet one sat in the corner getting on with his work.
Those that were cr@p, and couldn't control a class still chose to turn in every day and under perform got what they deserved.
ArtyLady
10-04-10, 08:32 AM
Well I think teachers, like parents, these days have a raw deal. They're damned if they try to discipline and they're damned if they don't. How the hell are they supposed to disclipine kids who know all their "rights"! What they gonna do send them to the naughty step!?
Of course in our day (as other's have said) - if we did mess about the teachers would soon nip it in the bud, usually by way of flying board rubber, book over the head, rap on knuckles with a ruler, hurl you physically out of the classroom, and - if all else failed, 6 of the best from the head.
As for apologising - I personally wouldn't worry to much about it - if that teacher couldn't stand her ground then she was probably in the wrong job IMO.
timwilky
10-04-10, 08:46 AM
OK, I left school in 1976. so there has been quite a bit of water under the bridge since then.
Last year I spot the familiar face of Pilky. The ******* that you were sent to for the cane. (Can you believe that we used to beat kids in school). I walked up to him.
"Mr Pilkington!", he respond and I put my hand out to shake his.
He jumps back in frieght, then realises and takes it.
He tells me that over the years about 20 former pupils have walked upto him in public and punched him. (Why am I not surprised).
In chatting he tells me that there is only my old maths teacher still there, but currently suspended for shouting at a girl. (girls, they let girls go there now!).
Ironically, my younger brother went out to a customers house to install a new washing machine. It turned out to be the same maths teacher.
How long have you worked for Aztec then Paul?
I don't
Well I bought the machine from them, the van says Aztec, your shirt says Aztec so you must work for them.
No I don't. I own them. Smug smile as he take the money.
metalmonkey
10-04-10, 09:20 AM
No most of mine were crap, they gave me hell casue I couldn't do certain things it there fault not mine they hadn't done their job properly.
It doesn't matter anyway, way in the past. I had a few awesome teachers in prep school and high school the rest might as well of not been there.
Having taught being an instructor it does get frustrating when there is one or two kids that just won't listen or mess about. I would never be teacher, but being an instructor/mentor is a real postive way to spend your time.
metalangel
10-04-10, 09:38 AM
Apparently my class managed to give our seventh grade French teacher a 'nervous breakdown' but I wasn't there to see it. And while I had no problem with our eight grade one, apparently a lot of the class did because my mother told me he must live nearby because one morning she heard kids shout his name and demanding he 'wake up you old f*cker*'. Something about French teachers seems to attract hatred?
There was one teacher (Mr Saba) who got fired halfway through the year. There were enough kids in my grade (third or fourth I think this was) that there were three seperate classes - two for English, one for French. I ended up in one, my friend ended up in another. I was really jealous because of Mr Saba's reputation as a total kook. This hit a peak when The Phantom Of The Opera opened in Toronto with great fanfare. Mr Saba taught class dressed as the Phantom (complete with mask and cape) and if you hadn't done your homework he'd drop a paper chandelier on your head.
So yeah, he got fired eventually, and their replacement teacher for the rest of the year was a total beeyatch. Turns out I was the lucky one.
We need to be careful about judging the past by modern standards.
My uncle and his best mate were told by their teachers that they would amount to nothing in life- 25 years on they had a reunion and some of the old teachers were there. When asked if they had avoided prison my uncle shuffled a bit then smiled and said quietly, " I hope so sir, as I'm now the Director of IBM's IT European division" as the teacher turned to his best mate and said well what did you turn out like, obviously hoping for one of them to have come a cropper, my uncles mate replied " I am the head of education for Strathclyde!" They both got walked off with the teacher trying to pick his jaw off the ground.
And no I would never apologise to my teachers, was the quiet one that didn't get caught.
Cheers
MCN_LiamM
10-04-10, 12:21 PM
In our first ever year at High School we put out first French teacher in a looney asylum...
ArtyLady
10-04-10, 03:20 PM
....my old maths teacher still there, but currently suspended for shouting at a girl. (girls, they let girls go there now!).
....
Good grief - is shouting illegal now as well?!!!! wouldn't surprise me!
You get drunk
you talk gibberish
Then decide to talk about your french teacher...
Darren, your odd
Yes, every day, but that's cos I have to work with them!!!
Yes, every day, but that's cos I have to work with them!!!
And I'm the nasty Bursar that tells them that they can't spend any money!:D
i left in 04.
i was a right little sh*te at school, disruptive from pretty much year 5 onwards, then became pretty bad in year 9, in year 10 i only had 50% attendance, 11 wasnt much better and when i was there i couldnt focus, i would def apologise to some of my teachers cause most of them took the time to try and help me, even when i was a little sh*t. funnily enough i liked french until i changed teacher then i ended up getting the lowest mark in the year as i stopped going.
now if i went back i would keep my head down and get on, and i would have done a lot more of the sports and that. dont realise how easy it is until you leave. 7.30 till 3.15, bloody half day for me now.
wouldnt mind seeing my Wood shop teacher as he through me out and stopped me getting my GCSE, said i wasnt good enough, liked the class just didnt like him. ended up having a job in woodwork for a year as well.
French teachers were given death by us, they were grumpy old women, who could hold their own though.
The best teachers were the old school (no pun intended) guys, didn't take any sh!t from any of us).
I actually felt sorry for the young female supply teachers, the abuse they got wasn't really deserved, but it was hilarious when they ended up with the worst classes in the school :)
barwel1992
11-04-10, 01:25 AM
NO! never got the support i needed until i left at the end of year 10 (yes a year before gcse's) and went to a better school, where they actually gave a sh*t and helped me with my learning problems
in my first high school after 2 year's of them standing back and doing nothing (was been bullied as well as learning problems) i took things in to my own hands ( yes i resorted to fighting :\ ) and my mum saw i was getting more and more violent so mum n dad moved me and grades went up nearly 50%
i dont have any thing to apologise for with my last school, but I want a big f-ing apology from my first high school
BanannaMan
11-04-10, 01:38 AM
Now that question could only have been asked by one of our younger members!
There are many teachers that need to apologise to me, today they'd be in jail! ;-)
+1
Had 2 or 3 old witches that lived to scare, torture, humiliate, or just be downright mean to any and every student possible.
-Ralph-
11-04-10, 10:38 PM
They're damned if they try to discipline and they're damned if they don't. How the hell are they supposed to disclipine kids who know all their "rights"!
Sandrine had a 14yr old girl scream the classroom down a few weeks ago because she put light pressure on the girls shoulder in an attempt to get her to return to her seat as she was standing in the middle of the classroom being disruptive, and had refused to go and sit down after several verbal requests, "Don't touch me, Your not allowed to touch me!!"
'Teachers Can Use Force In The Classroom'
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100405/tuk-teachers-can-use-force-in-the-classr-45dbed5.html
Hopefully as many schools and teachers as possible will read and implement this new guidance, including displaying relevant extracts from it on the smartboard for pupils to read for themselves, whilst making it absolutely clear that nothing has changed and this is just reinforcement of what they are already allowed to do.
BanditPat
11-04-10, 11:15 PM
Probably there was an english teacher we had for about the first 6 months of year ten took us about a week to realise that he couldn't control the class started of with us just not listening to him and having our own conversations amongst our selves and ****ing about and then ended up with eggs, fire and books being thrown around the class room at him as well as at one point a 6ft steel filing cabinet to see how far we could throw it.....We came in one day and he wasnt there dont know where he went but we ended up with the assistant head teacher after that that was no fun :( I know where he lives and saw him at the tip last year, gve him a hand and he seemed to be happier/healthier when i last saw him than when he was teaching.
rpwoodman
12-04-10, 10:55 AM
I had an inspiring teacher who I always remembered fondly, so a few months back I popped round her house and gave her a bottle of wine to say thanks. She really appreciated it. Seems that she remembered me fondly as well (tho her short term memory wasn't great - she must be at least 75-80).
Probably there was an english teacher we had for about the first 6 months of year ten took us about a week to realise that he couldn't control the class started of with us just not listening to him and having our own conversations amongst our selves and ****ing about and then ended up with eggs, fire and books being thrown around the class room at him as well as at one point a 6ft steel filing cabinet to see how far we could throw it.....We came in one day and he wasnt there dont know where he went but we ended up with the assistant head teacher after that that was no fun :( I know where he lives and saw him at the tip last year, gve him a hand and he seemed to be happier/healthier when i last saw him than when he was teaching.
It shows. no, or very little punctuation in your post making it hard to follow. see me.
as for response to the OP, yes and no. mucked about a bit in one or two classes but if they try their best and go home at night thinking if those little tassers dont want to learn i've done all i can, they'll be able to sleep at night.
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