Schooldays

[DJW1]

At my old school, I´m not sure who was worse, the teachers or the pupils.

 

Among the pupils, there were different kinds of fights: one to one, A forms against B forms, "upper school" against "lower school" (they were separated by the sports fields) and our school against another in the town.

 

The teachers included:

Mr. Cooke - part mild-mannered geography teacher, part psycho, who would grab pupils by the hair and bang their heads against the desk

Mr. Parker - the headmaster´s enforcer, who once punched me in the stomach when trying to find out who was responsible for some naughtiness (not me!)

Mr. Boden - maths teacher and Hells Angel. He came to work on his "hog" and any naughty boys that the other teachers couldn´t deal with would be sent to him. He took them into the corridor and imposed his own kind of "discipline"

Mr. Clements - if he saw you yawning, you had to do 10 press-ups

 

Probably pretty lightweight stuff compared to other schools.

[Trav Le Bleu]

 

[Nalis]

Could be bollocks but someone I used to work with told me about a teacher he had called Mr Cooling who was known for years as Mr Ing after he told a class he was losing his cool.

[worthosoriginals]

2 hours ago, Nalis said:

Could be bollocks but someone I used to work with told me about a teacher he had called Mr Cooling who was known for years as Mr Ing after he told a class he was losing his cool.

Or could be a really crap dad joke

[Trav Le Bleu]

First rule of school teaching - never let the kids know your first name.

 

Mr Gene Woodliffe had to put up with kids singing, "Geno, Geno, Geno!" at him, from the Dexy's Midnight Runners song. To be honest, as a teacher he knew his subject, but absolutely no affinity with children, which I think is more important.

 

Another teacher, Mr Grundy would make alcohol (ethanol) during lessons and let pupils have a sip... until the incident when an ambulance had to attend. He went on to become Lord Mayor of Leicester.

[CornwallFox]

I'm in my mid forties now but back in sixth form I started a rumour that a kinda foxy milf teacher was in a porn magazine with a cricket wicket. 

 

In my early twenties working in a Leicestershire pub after uni the same story was being told by a later generation of student from the same school. 

 

I have no idea how long that rumour continued for 🤣

[SpacedX]

At my school in West London, the staff would use violence and emotional cruelty, groom and have relationships with pupils, frequently get drunk, use inappropriate language, confiscate property that they would never return alongside flagrant selective favouritism and bias. And that was just the dinner ladies. 

[DJW1]

5 hours ago, SpacedX said:

At my school in West London, the staff would use violence and emotional cruelty, groom and have relationships with pupils, frequently get drunk, use inappropriate language, confiscate property that they would never return alongside flagrant selective favouritism and bias. And that was just the dinner ladies. 

I stayed on to the 6th form and one of the female students was actually living with one of the male teachers. Legal but not really appropriate!

More bizarrely, one of my pals (17 years old) was "going out" with the mother of another of my pals 

[SpacedX]

On 03/06/2026 at 19:20, DJW1 said:

I stayed on to the 6th form and one of the female students was actually living with one of the male teachers. Legal but not really appropriate!

 

Her initials weren't JP were they? - Because I observed precisely the same scenario. 

[Parafox]

On 03/06/2026 at 13:19, SpacedX said:

At my school in West London, the staff would use violence and emotional cruelty, groom and have relationships with pupils, frequently get drunk, use inappropriate language, confiscate property that they would never return alongside flagrant selective favouritism and bias. And that was just the dinner ladies. 

6th form age 17...  Dinner ladies we're always an attraction as they could give you "extra portions" if you were a "good boy".

 

I didn't go to a public school btw but I know a friend who did. 

 

 

[DJW1]

51 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

Her initials weren't JP were they? - Because I observed precisely the same scenario. 

The teacher was Mr Gillespie and I think the girl was Julie Clifford. 

As Calvin Harris put it, it was acceptable in the 80s 😃

Edited Saturday at 20:37 by DJW1

[DJW1]

1 minute ago, DJW1 said:

The teacher was Mr Gillespie and I think the girl was Julie Clifford. 

As Calvin Harris put it, it was aceptable in the 80s 😃

 

[PAULCFC]

Could not wait to get out!Started work at 15! Isuppose it didnt help that i went to Boggy Fleas!

Edited Saturday at 20:56 by PAULCFC
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[Trav Le Bleu]

15 hours ago, DJW1 said:

The teacher was Mr Gillespie and I think the girl was Julie Clifford. 

As Calvin Harris put it, it was acceptable in the 80s 😃

And how is your wife?