This world.
The first rule of maths class: Don't start a fight club
A bored substitute maths teacher from Connecticut has been cuffed for allegedly starting a fight club in his lessons. Ryan Fish, 23 years old, was charged with two counts of risk of injury to minors, four counts of reckless endangerment, and breach of peace for allegedly supervising fights during October 2017. Police were …
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Friday 13th April 2018 12:56 GMT Muscleguy
Our fifth form (O Level equivalent) Maths teacher in NZ said his very lower fourth class insisted on singing Pink Floyd's Another Brick In the Wall Part II at the start of each class (We don't need no education). He let them because that meant they would subsequently knuckle down.
He was a cool dude, large man, Commonwealth weight lifter. Once came across a woman who had got her Morris minor in a ditch. He lifted it out for her. Legs like tree trunks.
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Friday 13th April 2018 13:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
on singing Pink Floyd's Another Brick In the Wall Part(*)
Literally same story, Bulgaria, the English teacher in our high school. The difference was that he was in the top 10 nationally amateur boxing heavy category.
As I was already proficient to a level many years past the "high school requirements", I was exempted from the lessons, so I did not get to sing. Oh well, one cannot win every time.
*There was an extra twist that Pink Floyd was borderline "forbidden list" - not officially banned like the Final Cut, but not officially permitted like "Wish You Were Here". It was... err... not "encouraged" to be broadcast.
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Friday 13th April 2018 13:01 GMT TonyJ
FFS
I shudder with this world sometimes.
When I send my kids to school I don't expect a fairy land where all is fluffy clouds and happiness but I do expect the basic levels of care to be taken to ensure their safety.
And whilst it's sad we have a world where gun crime and knife crime exist and can be real problems, at the very least I'd expect a teacher to act like a human being and not do shit like this.
I wish I could say I'm surprised but I've had more than one run in with my eldest lad's school over the behaviour of their reachers over the years: one maths teacher in year seven calling him "gay" amongst other things (the school were woeful on that one and it escalated right up to my having to explain that if the bullying wasn't stamped on, I'd assume they accepted that I could, therefore, await said teacher outside the gates and that they'd be happy for me to return the favour);
An English teacher who would telephone me at around 9:00pm in the evening, clearly drunk and slurring her words to complain about his behaviour. That came to a head when she phsyically manhandled my son and pushed him into another teachers' classroom with no explanation to either my son or the other teacher - just left him there and stormed out)
And more recently a science teacher who decided that my son should not take the higher science papers he's been working towards since year 7 and, with zero notice, dropped the lower level mock exam in front of him causing a lowball grade used to justify said teachers' decision to now put him on the lower paper. That one was resolved when I went to meet the headmaster and demanded my son be given a higher mock, out of normal hours to be marked by a completely different and independent teacher. Despite no notice to my son, he passed with flying colours and is now back on the higher papers. Same teacher has, with independent witnesses, been overly aggressive to various students and again feels it's ok to phone me whilst I am at work and address me as "mate" repeatedly.
All of which may paint the school unfairly but 99% of the time it's actually a great school that takes the well-being of their students incredibly seriously - and it always seems to be the young teachers straight out of uni that are problematic.
Sorry...went off an a bit of a rant there.
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Friday 13th April 2018 13:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: FFS
" at the very least I'd expect a teacher to act like a human being and not do shit like this."
Agreed, but unfortunately we humans fall on a wide scale of decent to fuckwits. For what it's worth, at least the moron in TFA was identified relatively early in his career, and has been publicly IDed.
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Saturday 14th April 2018 03:26 GMT Sanctimonious Prick
Re: FFS
Upvoted.
I got into quite a lot of trouble at school too! I was also quite a disturbed child... but things get worse when the deputy headmaster literally jumps off his desk, with cane in hand, to punish you.
Not saying your child is disturbed... just not everything is always as it seems (especially when it is _your_ child).
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Sunday 15th April 2018 14:24 GMT paulf
Re: FFS
@ Sanctimonious Prick "when the deputy headmaster literally jumps *off* his desk,"
Wait, what? (My emphasis). What TAF was he doing on the desk in the first place? I was at school in the 80s/90s so I did see some bad shit by teachers, just projectile board rubbers etc, whereas that's off the scale!
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Friday 13th April 2018 13:57 GMT Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese
There was a teacher at my high school who took some delight in arranging fights *with* the kids (I say "kids" - they were 15 or so) who fancied themselves as hard cases. He wasn't that big a bloke, but he was an ex Royal Marine, so would just take them around the back of the school and knock 7 shades of s**t out of them.
At the time, we thought he was a bit of a good egg, for putting the school bullies and hardnuts in their place.
In hindsight, he was probably just a bit of a psychopath
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Friday 13th April 2018 14:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
I took my corporal punishment beatings but all that disproportionate punishment did was convince me that authoritarians are cunts who deserve to be the first against the wall come the revolution. I believe in 'live and let live' but as they want it played by their rules I will happily oblige.
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Friday 13th April 2018 14:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Spoiler follows if you haven't seen "Fight Club" after 19 years, but...
...let me guess. After one of the kids saw the footage that had been uploaded to social media, he realised that the "teacher" had never existed and that *he* was the one that, all this time, had been explaining Pythagoras' theorem to a classful of bored kids?
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Friday 13th April 2018 17:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
At English Secondary Schools for many years a set book for 15 year olds has been "Lord of the Flies". There have been reports that some boys only boarding schools took it to heart and in one case only the rope support breaking saved an unfavoured pupil. Unfortunately a Google search is inundated with writings about the novel itself.