teachers,loved em or loathed em?

[unruliejulie]

Which teacher did you admire and why and which one did you detest? Has a teacher had a major influence on your life and if so, in what way?

[Rubyrose]

My DT-Food teacher was horrible. I hated her and every lesson we would have a row within seconds of me walking in the door. She couldn't stand me and I hated her in return. She was my mates mum though so it was really difficult but I never hid the fact I hated her. Lol. I never spent long in her lessons as most of the time I got send to the 'Holding Room'.. Thats where the naughty kids go. Haha.

My English teacher was fantastic. She was sooooo lovely and she loved me. We got on great and when she signed my leaving book her opening line was 'My dearest Karen, always smiling, always straight.' She was my all time favourite teacher and her teaching methods just seemed to have the whole class gripped.

I loved my drama teacher too and she was so friendly and encouraging. But I loved drama and was willing to listen and learn in that lesson so thats why I liked her I guess. Lol.

[raysparx]

Hi julie,

I hope you are well, I hated them all,I was asked to leave when I was 15, they said I was thick and disruptive,the truth is I found it boring, I wasn't thick,they just never asked me anything I knew!!

I don't think anybody is thick,because we all know different things,don't we!

when I meet people some think I am a bit dopey,because I have a strong cockney accent,but I can't help that,and I am proud of where I was born & my parents.

Take care, Ray xx

[kevb0444]

Hi...most the teachers at my GF's old school managed to ruin her teen years by not dealing with a terrible bullying problem thet she had. The only teachers she ever trusted where a support teacher who used to help her Deaf friend and her home school teacher she had after her parents had to remove her from school after her Dr advised her parents to do so for her own safty. The worst of the teachers....the Deputy Head. She was so obsessed with her "cool teacher" image that she had with the "popular" kids that most problems were not dealt with. Too many cases to go into full details....but my GF has just tried to get her school record...which has somehow vanished from the school with out a trace. Sorry to bring a sour mood to this thread.

[shaneystar2]

I left school in 1966 and had a brilliant art teacher who encouraged me enormously and I still love drawing and painting. I met up with her at a school reunion two years ago .At the grand old age of 89, she remembered me.
My DS teacher taught me to make a Victoria sponge which never fails and my Eng Lit teacher instilled a love of books and poetry into me. I never went to university but because of her I managed to get an OU degree in later years.
The one I loathed was the needlework teacher who used to belt me over the knuckles with a steel ruler because my tacking was uneven .I hate sewing to this day.
I also didn't care much for the deputy head who did health and hygiene....jumping about chanting "I must I must improve my bust " didn't really go down too well.!

[CLOWN TICKLE]

A male primary teacher was the best who I continued to keep in touch with til I was 21

Hated every single PE Teacher

[SaxyJag]

I hated most of my secondary school teachers. Middle class, uptight snobs who all told me I'd never do anything with my life - except for Marilyn Rowley, one of my English teachers. She was a strict northerner, but who shared my love of Arnold Bennett. That aside, I was useless at English literature and she let me drop the subject. I took it up again in later years and now I love it - even studied it at uni. Marilyn, thank you for not forcing me into it and making me hate it.

My primary school was quite progressive for a state school and I had some wonderful teachers, a couple of whom also taught my sons when they went there. Of all of them, Geoff Chapman was one of the best - enthusiastic, caring, open-minded. It's said that we all have one teacher who was special to us and whom we remember for all the right reasons, and Geoff was mine.

[SaxyJag]

And yes, I know we're not supposed to name names, but this was in the 1970s and they deserve to be named, they were such special people.

When I'm a famous writer, I will make it quite clear who a couple of my characters are based on.

[unruliejulie]

and when you're a famous writer sexyjag, will you mention that you wrote in MY post please!!!!!!!

[undercovers]

i never had any really horrible teachers or any really good teachers - mine were just uninspired and uninspiring souls trying to get through the day, felt more like a Friday afternoon in a factory than anything else... no body ever taking any interest or any responsibility for the work that was meant to be going on. used to really annoy me - if the school had a bad exam year (my year for instance) the head teacher would explain it in the local papers as you the product of a very poor academic ability in that year group than no amount of teaching could overcome, if there was any achievement (e.g. extracurricular prize winning in something or other) the school always managed to mention it all over the place like it.

[mojobanana]

Hi,

I had a really nice teacher in junior school. He always took an interest in me and what I was doing and took time to speak to me. This was during a time that I was being bullied quite badly at school and he was the only reason I kept going.

I moved away to go to uni, but my parents used to see him quite regularly and he would always ask how I was getting on.

Unfortunately, I've recently found out he's suffering from Alzheimer's. He saw my mother recently and asked her 3 times in half an hour how I was getting on, not remembering the previous conversation.

It brought me to tears. He's such a lovely man.
Jo

[Lonnie]

I had a teacher, a Miss -----, who carried a 1/2'' wide cane, and she used it, used to hate it when she took the class, but we did have some good teachers who went out of their way to help you.