At my school there was a physics teacher who sexually assaulted my friend’s sister, who was a year below us. She was 12 at the time, and told her parents, who reported it to the head teacher. It turned out she wasn’t the only victim, but was the first to report it. He left, mid-term, for “another job”, but escaped prosecution. It certainly affected her, years later we went out for a few months, and she told me all about it and how long it took her to get over it. Another teacher who taught us English, and who was our form teacher for a year, had a violent temper which came on in a flash. He slapped a boy in front of the whole class, with such force that his glasses flew off across the room. I know that isn’t the same thing as a guy wearing false boobs, but there is a line where eccentricity becomes something a bit more sinister.
There absolutely is such a line. This just isn't it. Violence and sexual assault is on an entirely different spectrum.
At least 50% of the teachers at my school really didn’t want to be there, and probably shouldn’t have been. A handful of those couldn’t control a class, and would occasionally resort to violence, which was allowed in those days. At least one was a psychopath who enjoyed terrifying youngsters. None had plastic tits, that I’m aware of, but I think such a person would have provoked more humour than trauma.
He wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes at my school, it would have been anarchy. I was a disruptive influence to say the least and was often the instigator of horrendous campaigns and pranks against any teacher that was remotely strange...and we had our share of those I'm not such a bastard these days, but I'd love to be a kid in his class today.
I went to a boys boarding school run by Roman Catholic priests, so could tell you some stories! (let’s just say, I’m glad that I was a big, hairy gorilla from an early age).
My junior high school was the magnet school for problem children in the area...if you got thrown out of one of the schools in the area, you ended up with us. Suffice to say, it did not attract the highest-quality teachers. At least three went on stress leave during my three years there (one, our poor French teacher, came back zonked out of his gourd on something for his anxiety, and then ran away and eloped with my dental hygienist a couple months later and was never heard from again). I'd have very, very little worry about the impact such a teacher would have had on those kids. I'd have considerable worry about the impact of kids on that teacher.
In contrast to my earlier story, we had a Latin teacher (that’s a teacher who taught Latin btw) who we sussed out wasn’t a strong character, and we hounded him and bullied him into what in those days was called a “nervous breakdown”. Not proud of being a part of that. His successor, on the other hand, told my parents I had no hope of passing Latin O Level, so I worked harder at Latin revision than any other subject and got an A grade.
I was considered one of the good kids for the most part, (I didn't become a mouthy asshole until later) so I only had a front-row seat to most of it, but I still feel bad all these years later for the teachers that had to literally chase 13 year old delinquents around the premises for however long it took them to reconsider their careers. The only time I participated in driving a teacher round the bend there, she really deserved it.
bene fecisti pupillam stellam That was Google Translate. The only Latin I remember is Marcus et Sextus e pueri Romani
Just a matter of interest Chilc's, what is Heappey like as a constituency MP? I ask because I think I recollect him being on Question Time and, although I normally enjoy seeing Tory MP's being baited, I thought that he came across as a decent and reasonable man. Since then he appears to have gone under the radar.
Responds to the odd letter but otherwise completely absent from the job he gets most of his salary for. Tessa has actually done more for the constituency since she was voted out in 2015 than Heappey has.
What the **** are Truss and this utter twat of a chancellor doing? Quite frankly, what they've done is inexcusable and outrageous. I gave myself some time to think after the mini-budget announcement but I get more angry the more I think about it! A Labour government is surely inevitable at the next GE now which doesn't exactly thrill me but it's a whole lot better than these ****ers. I mean, they've actually made the previous government look good!
It’s an asset strip mate. They’re doing the bidding of their shady Hedge Fund and disaster capitalist backers, cashing in by shorting the U.K. economy. There really is no other possible explanation. We’re being robbed.
Edit "they've actually made the previous government look less incompetent than they actually were". This must be the worst period of government in history or close to it at least.
It’s the end game of the process which started with Brexit. Odey and his fellow hedge funders put a lot of money into the Leave campaign because the object has always been to end up where we are now. Just take what’s happened to the pound in the last few years. In 2007 you could get $US2.03 for £1. In Jan 2017 it was down to $1.25, and since Kwarteng’s statement it’s gone down again, almost to parity with the dollar. And it’s been done by a combination of deliberate actions and complete incompetence.
