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The Primary/Junior school I attended in the 50's had both a woodworking and a metalworking shop (including a fully working small forge) with fully qualified instructors. I only did the woodworking course as the metalworking course was over subscribed. Oddly the Secondary Modern that I progressed to had neither, although the facilities were available at the college that we were twinned with - but just not for us SM bods!
It was another 4 decades before I got back into serious wood/metal working. Even then progress has been very slow due to many sets of expensive tools growing legs and walking away
It was another 4 decades before I got back into serious wood/metal working. Even then progress has been very slow due to many sets of expensive tools growing legs and walking away
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That's the thing with schools. What talent you may have or any natural intelligence is pretty much worthless if you don't toe their god awful, mind numbing and soul deadening line. Schools are a necessary evil, and we'd all be a lot dumber without them, but with regards to teaching or encouraging anything outside of the basic and required necessities, they're a waste of space. I'd guess that nowadays they're even worse, as the obsession with figures, attendance etc. seems to have made it so that they're an all consuming paper exercise.
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Your right about the attendance thing, we regularly have assemblies about how coming to every lesson 5 minuets late means over the whole school year you miss something stupid like 3 weeks of learning
, yeah, because people come to every lesson 5 minutes late.Bill Edwards
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Wonder how much time is 'spent' in those assemblies...
I remember grassing one teacher up to the head of year cos he would turn up 15-20mins late every time! Lets just say we didn't see eye to eye - he was teaching the lowest set of french, and he hated teaching students with no ability. Way to go there...Your right about the attendance thing, we regularly have assemblies about how coming to every lesson 5 minuets late means over the whole school year you miss something stupid like 3 weeks of learning
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I had a psychotic art teacher who used to kick your chair out from under you if you rocked back on 2 legs.
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One of Our arts teachers, had massive 
------ paint pots-------- and was well in the lads W bank
, i'm not into SM, but was worth p**sing her off and get the ruler across the knuckles, coz when she took a massive swing, we learnt about newtons three laws of motion, for every action there is an egual and opposite reaction, etc etc, they all applied nicely. We learnt a lot from her but not about art but she didnt know it!!
My nephew has just left school where they have a complete metal shop but it is closed and never used
coz the cookery teacher left and the metal work teacher also does domestic science and that is apparently far more important.
------ paint pots-------- and was well in the lads W bank, i'm not into SM, but was worth p**sing her off and get the ruler across the knuckles, coz when she took a massive swing, we learnt about newtons three laws of motion, for every action there is an egual and opposite reaction, etc etc, they all applied nicely. We learnt a lot from her but not about art but she didnt know it!!My nephew has just left school where they have a complete metal shop but it is closed and never used
coz the cookery teacher left and the metal work teacher also does domestic science and that is apparently far more important.
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I don't think we've ever had any mentalists but we've has a few teachers get sacked. One had written down a hate list of year 10 and 11 students
. Another one turned the lights off and said to a black lad that he couldn't see him
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. Another one turned the lights off and said to a black lad that he couldn't see him.normspanners
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The teacher ought to have asked, as I do of my nephew, for him to smile,
We had the history teach who was an unbelievable shot with the board rubber, he could hit a small head at 50ft every time. It was about a 6x2 block of wood with felt pad, not too bad if the felt side got you, but the corners stung on contact with the back of your head at 40mph!!
He must have had hundreds of coconuts at the fairs over the years.
He actually was the best teacher, coz he had a full on mk11 lotus cortina and everyday would drift it into the school car park.
The thing is I would not have had them any other way, we needed discipline and we got what we deserved when it was deserved.
sometimes it hurt, but we all have grown up into perfect--------- 
serial killers 
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we had an ex military Spanish teacher that used to scream at people like you see in things like full metal.jacket. Well, right up until one of the kids in the year above me punched him as hard as he could mid scream. Cracked his cheek bone and knocked out 2 teeth, plus knocked him out. He never came back I don't think. He difinately wasn't back by the time I left 2 years later
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My favourite was the Art teacher who clipped one of the lads round the head and his watch flew off and smashed, he wanted the lads parents to pay for the repairs
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This thread has taken a turn for the weird.
We had a female metal work teacher who used to lock herself in the cupboard while we wrecked the workshopp.
At the school my mum was teaching at they had a glamour kitten PE teacher, one year she eloped with a 6th form boy.
Swine.
We had a female metal work teacher who used to lock herself in the cupboard while we wrecked the workshopp.
At the school my mum was teaching at they had a glamour kitten PE teacher, one year she eloped with a 6th form boy.
Swine.
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Should read "lucky swine" surely
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There other words I could have used. I was being polite.
I was the same age. I also used to lust after the girls PE teacher at our school.
If I spoke my mind I would be barrred from here.
I was the same age. I also used to lust after the girls PE teacher at our school.
If I spoke my mind I would be barrred from here.
