Which teacher did you like most at school?

[ViolentPanda]

My history teacher, who was hard left, and an anti-capitalist before the description had been invented. he made a lot of effort to make sure his pupils had source material beyond what was in the text book, which often meant seeing the poor bugger slaving away through the lunchbreaks with the Banda copier. A brilliant bloke who lived his politics, even though it stopped him "getting on".

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I haven't heard anyone use the word Banda for years....that smell of meths......

 

[ViolentPanda]

I haven't heard anyone use the word Banda for years....that smell of meths......

I'm showing my age.

They were dead hypnotic too, with the "CLONKclonkclonk" each time the handle was cranked.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The mauve ink!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've been laughed and pointed at for talking about Gestetner copies too

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Blind Lemon says Banda copies were called Cyclostyle in deepest Devon....smelt of meths too though....
His inspirational teacher was Michael Barnes...French and Spanish.

 

[Louloubelle]

I had a french teacher, can't remember her name, who was really lovely and she looked like that yoga teacher in the jaffa cakes advert

She used to giggle a lot and one day when we were learning french for different parts of the human body she just got the giggles and drew a bare nekkid woman on the blackboard, complete with nipples and scribbles underarm and pubic hair.

She couldn't control her laughter and looking back I wonder if she was stoned at the time.

She drew little arrows to the nips and the lady garden and then wrote the words for them in french.

She wiped it off pretty quickly but by them we all admired her and it was possibly the best thing that a teacher had ever done.

Some time later, when she discovered a set of tarot cards in my bag she went hysterical, which shocked and upset he as I really liked her and couldn't understand why she was so upset.

 

[subversplat]

I used to have the right hots for my secondary school english teacher

Other than that, my form tutor was reasonably OK. He used to play trumpet with Roy Castle and once saved us all from getting nicked in France

 

[Treebeak]

Mr Randall 'Uncle Phil' - art teacher - used to get us to bring in cakes and pop on a Friday

Mrs Chandler - art teacher - encouranged all of us to be the best that we could be and taught us sex education properly

Mr Faulkner - science teacher - a fucking laugh who I fancied the pants off - copped off with one of the six formers

Mr Price - meany headmaster but fantastic poetry teacher - used to talk about shagging his wife on the washing machine whilst reading poetry

Our head of sixth form - can only remember we called him Dave or Woody (as in Toy Story) - treated us like adults - fair but fun

Mr Baynon - English teacher - so passionate, made learning fun. Made us act out Frankenstein in class (silly voices and all)

Ms Morgan - used to lie on the desks and flirt with the boys whilst teaching German.

Actually, I had loads of great teachers come to think of it!

 

[Xanadu]

I'm showing my age.

They were dead hypnotic too, with the "CLONKclonkclonk" each time the handle was cranked.

Not that old! I'm 22 and I remember them!

They used them in my primary school cos it was cheaper than the photocopier.

 

[davesgcr]

Running of banda Copies in the geography storeroom was a narcotic experience - smell of fluid / floor polish and old books . Frosted windows and not much lihgt - you ould drift away as you reached the first hundred or so. I used to do it as a favour for Olive Geography.

Photocopies are so boring - the life skills in getting the "skin" onto the drum without creasing it and nippijg your fingers on the tight restraining clips.....

 

[madamv]

Mrs Edmunds. She was our Engl lit teacher and as there were only 9 in our class, we were treated to loads of debates and outings. Dub came with us to see Under Milkwood. She was lovely and certainly encouraged us to enjoy our classwork, and not see it as a punishment

The class came round to watch a couple of vids of our books one evening, she came too and brought the popcorn.

She came to our wedding, and bought me a lovely glass cheese/coldcuts platter thing

 

[shakespearegirl]

Our high school home economics teacher was ace, her name escapes me though.

Common excuses when thrown out of class and sent to the vice headmaster were 'I haven't had any breakfast and feel really grumpy and tired' or 'I have got my period and feel really grumpy and tired', he would send us to home ec and she used to feed us, let us chill out in sickbay or with her if she wasn't teaching and never comment on the fac that we had our period for 3 weeks of the month.

She never showed me up when I turned up without money for ingredients and used to ring my mum directly and hassle her for the money without involving the school, sure she let me off loads as well.