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laughed when i here the kids moaning about their teachers...only if they knew..
Our maths teacher thought you would learn better if you had a swift thump to the forehead,
or throw a board duster at you....when it hit you there would be a cloud of dust..
our gardening teacher once threw a cactus at one of my mates, it stuck in his head. :LOL:
he also used to confiscate our fags and smoke them, in front of you,even in the class...
the woodworking teacher would hit our fingers with a ruler or lump of wood or what ever else
there was near him, if we leaned on his desk..he loved inflicting pain, by grabbing us by the sideburns, or if you didn't
have any, then he would grab you by the short hair, on the back of your neck..
I think he must have been brought up by the SS...
but we did have good times also...:)
 
Did you go to the same school as me?
 
That sounds like paradise compared with being educated by a bunch of sociopathic jackals nuns.
 
That's nothing, at my school I had to go and see the headmaster once and he made me sit on his lap and then took me for a dickyback ride. I looked out of the window and saw Wiggins.

(good old derek and clive)
 
My old metalwork teacher when giving us the belt used to sit you on a bench with trouser legs rolled up and knees close together and hands resting on your knees palms upwards, if you pulled your hands away as thebelt came down your knees got it instead and it hurt like hell. Sick little F%^&.
 
Our Gym teacher gave you a choice of which Slipper you would get 6 of the best from - either the white bomber ( a big white plimsoll) or black jack (a horrible little black pump)
Happy days - but at least we knew what respect was!
 
Overexposed said:
Our Gym teacher gave you a choice of which Slipper you would get 6 of the best from - either the white bomber ( a big white plimsoll) or black jack (a horrible little black pump)
Happy days - but at least we knew what respect was!
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our deputy Ed had the biggest sole off a shoe i ever saw...must have came from a yeti..:LOL:
 
I had no respect for the nasty, sadistic little s***s then and I don't now.

What sort of a messed up moron throws a wooden board rubber at a child?

I had the cane, the slipper, a riding crop, assorted rulers and hands.

Hateful bastards.
 
simon ess said:
I had no respect for the nasty, sadistic little s***s then and I don't now.

What sort of a messed up moron throws a wooden board rubber at a child?

I had the cane, the slipper, a riding crop, assorted rulers and hands.

Hateful bastards.
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Shoulda behaved.
 
simon ess said:
I had no respect for the nasty, sadistic little s***s then and I don't now.

What sort of a messed up moron throws a wooden board rubber at a child?

I had the cane, the slipper, a riding crop, assorted rulers and hands.

Hateful bastards.
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I agree. I don't see how that sort of behaviour from a teacher towards a child was deemed to be acceptable whereas if you did the same thing to someone in the street, you would likely be arrested.


Steve.
 
Blimey I must have had a good school, it was only ever the cane across the palms of hands, nothing else
Grammar school even that seemed to have stopped, it became detention of lines :(
 
Teachers used physical violence occasionally at my school, but never once did I think it was malicious. If you didn't want the board rubber thrown at you, or the cane, or a whack around the head you behaved. Personally I took my chances and have high regard for those 'old school teachers'. And not just me. When one of the best (or worse, depending on your point of view) died a few years ago the turnout at his funeral was huge.

I think they did me and many other boys a favour.
 
BBR said:
Teachers used physical violence occasionally at my school, but never once did I think it was malicious. If you didn't want the board rubber thrown at you, or the cane, or a whack around the head you behaved. Personally I took my chances and have high regard for those 'old school teachers'. And not just me. When one of the best (or worse, depending on your point of view) died a few years ago the turnout at his funeral was huge.

I think they did me and many other boys a favour.
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Agree totally - I get fed up with all these soft liberal types promoting spare the rod spoil the child. If you didn't want punishing then you behaved - simple really and you soon understood the concept of consequences.
Maybe if these standards were still used we wouldn't have the these feral kids roaming the streets with no fear of anyone or anything.
 
At one of my schools you were sent to the office for the stick and the punishment book,knowing full well what you'd get when you took them back to class thus extending the anticipation,dusting of the head with the board rubber was a good one, looked like severe dandruff.
 
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I prefered the belt, detention or an exercise was a worse punishment.
 
We had (what we thought) was a very soft religious instruction teacher and used to take the p**s out of him regularly. One day he turned on the biggest guy in the class, grabbed his long hair (1960s) and repeatedly smashed his head onto the desk until his nose was split open. We were perfectly behaved after seeing that. A few years after we left school we used to drink with him at the local pub, nicer chap you couldn't meet.
 
Once i reached 4th year, we would go to the pub at lunchtime while some of the staff were there, mind you, we were all hair,teeth and leather jackets.
Didn't look like school children for sure.
 
left school at 15 to work in a furniture factory,we had many choice's then, we could do 2 days a week,instead of school, in mostly any factory..
if you was any good then you would have a job when you left school,if you didn't like it there, then you would look for another start in another factory
in your dinner break ..it was that easy to get a job..I remember the careers officer asking us in class if anybody would like a start in Fords, they had just opened
a factory on the industrial estate and were recruiting in our area...not for me Sir, who wants to be covered in oil?not me...I don't think the had anyone from our class...
what a bunch of d******ds...if only we knew..
 
Overexposed said:
Agree totally - I get fed up with all these soft liberal types promoting spare the rod spoil the child. If you did't want punishing then you behaved - simple really and you soon understood the concept of consequences.
Maybe if these standards were still used we wouldn't have the these feral kids roaming the streets with no fear of anyone or anything.
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I know exactly what you mean and agree, but the liberals you speak of are the last ones who promote the spare the rod line, as it basically promotes the belief that if a child isn't disciplined they won't learn respect, and that bad behaviour has consequences.
 
Ah yes the happiest days of our lives :thumbs:

mark richards said:
or throw a board duster at you....when it hit you there would be a cloud of dust..
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I got quite good at throwing it back too :D
 
BBR said:
Teachers used physical violence occasionally at my school, but never once did I think it was malicious. If you didn't want the board rubber thrown at you, or the cane, or a whack around the head you behaved. Personally I took my chances and have high regard for those 'old school teachers'. And not just me. When one of the best (or worse, depending on your point of view) died a few years ago the turnout at his funeral was huge.

I think they did me and many other boys a favour.
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Agree with you 100%.

Even though I obviously didn't like the pump, wooden play-bat, & latterly the cane, when I was on the receiving end, I really do appreciate the threat & use of, as I believe it kept me mostly on the straight & narrow!


viv1969 said:
I know exactly what you mean and agree, but the liberals you speak of are the last ones who promote the spare the rod line, as it basically promotes the belief that if a child isn't disciplined they won't learn respect, and that bad behaviour has consequences.
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It's ridiculous that even the word `sanction` is becoming a word that is frowned upon now & sanctions not applied in a growing number of schools. It's now becoming more & more fashionable to use `restorative` practices, especially in primary education.

`Nurture` is also a new buzz-word that a growing number of schools are using. It's all getting too mamby-pamby.

Kids today are too cosseted from real life.

Schools today (especially secondary age) are fighting a losing battle with some kids & society will eventually pay the price
 
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Discipline at our school was harsh but fair generally; uniform infringements to bad behaviour all being punished hard and fast - you knew where you stood. You also gained privileges through good behaviour too, so a reasonable balance of carrot and stick. Such a huge contrast to my own kids experiences, and to my mind a disaster for society.

It wasn't all good though in the 'old days'. There was one sadistic b*****d at my school - a PE teacher. When I was around 14, I'd presented to his lesson with a note excusing me from participation (I'd had surgery on both feet less than a week before, and walking was difficult enough but manageable). He can't have read more than the first line of the note before be exploded in anger, grabbed me by the hair, swung me around and threw me against the benches. Blood and bruises resulted, but you just didn't do anything about it in those days.
 
If I misbehaved at school & got the cane, I wouldn't tell my parents for fear of getting a slap from my Father, but when I was around 12 yrs old the RE teacher stood behind me while I was seated & picked me up by the sides of my hair, pulling a couple of clumps out. (brought tears to my eyes did that :( )
I told my Dad when I got home........... He was straight into school the next morning! :bat: & I received an apology.:cool:
 
OldCarlos said:
It's ridiculous that even the word `sanction` is becoming a word that is frowned upon now & sanctions not applied in a growing number of schools
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It just gets worse :(
Furtim said:
It wasn't all good though in the 'old days'. There was one sadistic b*****d at my school - a PE teacher.
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OldCarlos said:
but when I was around 12 yrs old the RE teacher stood behind me while I was seated & picked me up by the sides of my hair, pulling a couple of clumps out. (brought tears to my eyes did that :( )
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I think there was "one" in every school TBH.
"Ours" was the Geography teacher, who, as an aside, seemed to delight in inviting the "in crowd boys" to his house boat for Sunday tea. ;)
 
Cobra said:
"Ours" was the Geography teacher, who, as an aside, seemed to delight in inviting the "in crowd boys" to his house boat for Sunday tea. ;)
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:eek:

(Wasn't Fred Talbot, was it? :D )
 
OldCarlos said:
:eek:

(Wasn't Fred Talbot, was it? :D )
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LOL But no.
He was old in the late 60's / early 70's I doubt he is still alive TBH.

But you know, there are times at school when not being in with the in crowd is a blessing :D
 
I've witnessed, in a primary school fairly near to me, a young kid around 8 yrs old shouting, throwing things & turning chairs over in the classroom & generally being disruptive.
The teacher takes all the pupils out of the classroom until the said pupil is calm. They then return & all sit together to `talk it through` (restorative) ......until the next time.

They have a `nurture` room where kids who disengage in learning can go for a chat, have a drink, toast, play on a laptop, even get taken out of school for a treat.
One particular child who started there @ 5 yrs old spent virtually all their time in the `nurture room` for nearly 3 yrs.
They couldn't understand why the child didn't want to integrate fully in classroom learning. (Mmmm let's have a think........treats win!)

Their end of year school `reports` are called something else (can't remember what exactly) and of the 6 or so pages it's mainly all woolly worded crap talking about wellbeing, friendships etc..............maths & English get a quick mention at the end, with no pointers to how well the child is actually attaining amongst their peers.

The teachers & staff act like they want to be the children's friends. They cuddle them and even cry when a child leaves their school-family.

I really can't be doing with all this sort of stuff & it seems like it's becoming more the norm ffs.
 
We had the belt, cane etc. Didn't do us any harm, you knew who was boss.
There were still hooligans in the streets in the Seventies, so it didn't have an effect on outside behaviour.
At my kids' school detention was on a Saturday afternoon after games. A nicer bunch of kids was hard to come across. There was, and is, a great sense of pride in their school.
 
we had a chemistry teacher who used to throw chalk, one week we saved up loads and loads of chalk and as soon as he came in the room we all started bombarding him with it... he wound up hiding in the prep cupboard crying, and subsequently went off with stress and never came back

As ring leader i got 6 of the best fro the head of year - but no one ever threw chalk at me or any of my mates again
 
OldCarlos said:
The teachers & staff act like they want to be the children's friends. They cuddle them
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oh aye - has anyone told operation yew tree :)
 
@OldCarlos it seems more and more invogue to reward bad behaviour doesn't it? :(
 
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"Nurture teams" in school, and phrases like "disengaging from learning"....what a load of old shullbit.
It seems to me that it's the parents that need a good slapping for their total failures.
 
big soft moose said:
we had a chemistry teacher who used to throw chalk, one week we saved up loads and loads of chalk and as soon as he came in the room we all started bombarding him with it... he wound up hiding in the prep cupboard crying, and subsequently went off with stress and never came back

As ring leader i got 6 of the best fro the head of year - but no one ever threw chalk at me or any of my mates again
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The 'old' schools were a mixture of good and bad.
I was born at the end of the 2nd world war, there was (inevitably) a baby boom, classes of 40+ and a massive shortage of qualified or even competent teachers.

I remember a maths teacher who only bothered with the kids that could keep up with his teaching, which meant that most of us had no idea what he was going on about.

There was another teacher who clearly suffered from what was then called "Shell shock". He was totally unable to maintain any form of discipline, he spent every lesson just reading a book to us, but we couldn't hear him because we totally ignored him and many of the kids spent his lessons throwing things at him - his life must have been a total misery.

There was a woman teacher whose son had been killed in action. She didn't do any teaching at all, just spoke continuously about how her son had given his life for us and how he had sacrificed his life for a bunch of kids that weren't worth saving - and of course she was constantly going on about the evil Germans...

There was a metalwork teacher who was a total sadist.

Just 2 of our year were put into GCE exams and I wasn't one of them, I had to go to evening classes to get my 'O' and the 'A' levels.
 
I think I had the same woodwork teacher as @mark richards (actually probably not, because we weren't posh enoughto have a 'gardening teacher')

He was known as Pervy Pete . . . That's a whole other thread, but if you were female you made sure that you never stayed behind in the workshop on your own with him :puke:
But he loved the 'sideburns' thing too (or if you were a girl that bit of hair above your ear where sideburns would be)

The sadistic b****r even gave you a choice - 5 seconds or the double lesson.
5 seconds was yanking upwards on that bit of hair for a count of 5 in front of the whole calss, or you could take a double lesson of writing lines while sat facing the wall in the corner instead.
 
Makes you wonder what jobs the sadists apply for these days doesnt it. Probably work on customer service phone lines for insurance companies.
 
DorsetDude said:
Makes you wonder what jobs the sadists apply for these days doesnt it. Probably work on customer service phone lines for insurance companies.
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They become politicians.
That way they get to f*** up everyone.
 
Garry Edwards said:
There was another teacher who clearly suffered from what was then called "Shell shock".
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We had one like that. He could spend a whole lesson telling us about the time he saw off a battalion of German tanks armed with just a knife and fork.


Steve.
 
maybe just me then.. threatened with a ruler slap.. the words "f**k right off" told him. P**** [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] is hopefully picking up the soap as i speak, however didn't interfere with me, Guess I was an ugly child.#
 
Lynton said:
maybe just me then.. threatened with a ruler slap.. the words "f**k right off" told him. P**** b*****d is hopefully picking up the soap as i speak, however didn't interfere with me, Guess I was an ugly child.#
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A ruler slap says P**** to you?
Cause all I'm hearing is bitter little kid :-)
 
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