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-   -   Pet Peeves? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/trailer-park-96/pet-peeves-733083/)

Jerseygirl Jan 25th 2013 10:43 am
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10505950)
Ach I'm retiring in two months time so don't give a monkeys for A levels, degrees, qualifications, CVs, résumés, making nice with bosses, or any of that shite.
Congratulations Robin. :thumbsup:

Cardienscarf Jan 25th 2013 11:31 am
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10506160)
Yes.
  1. Four week holiday in England in the spring
  2. Back to the homestead for leisurely gardening season
  3. Another lengthy UK vacation in the fall
  4. Rinse and repeat
Nice!

Sally Redux Jan 25th 2013 11:34 am
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10506155)
That's a funny emoticon. Since a party is mentioned, I naturally assumed the little homunculus was projectile vomiting now I realise it is a noisemaker!
They tend to be rather naff don't they :lol: We want a cyber party when you do retire though.

yellowroom Jan 25th 2013 11:39 am
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10506047)
My experience in the physics lab was later another reason to not want to be a teacher - several of us, who did want to be there, used to bait* one of our physics teachers because we realised he didn't seem to fully understand the subject he was teaching, and that was just at O level!

* Meaning, we keep asking technical questions until he said "Well, you don't need to know about that." :D
we had a brand new physics teacher for O level who was utter crap. For the first term of fourth year (sorry i cant do the new 'years' terminology) we thought we'd picked the wrong subject as none of us understood a thing until she breezed in just before half term and informed us she'd been teaching us the A level syllabus. She was completely inappropriate with us (telling us about her wedding night :eek:) and the lower classes wound her up so much she ran out of the school and the head of department had to go hunting and found her at the train station. Bearing in mind we were a nice middle class girls grammar school, that was quite an achievement.

She didn't last long.

Cardienscarf Jan 25th 2013 11:47 am
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by yellowroom (Post 10506244)
we had a brand new physics teacher for O level who was utter crap. For the first term of fourth year (sorry i cant do the new 'years' terminology) we thought we'd picked the wrong subject as none of us understood a thing until she breezed in just before half term and informed us she'd been teaching us the A level syllabus. She was completely inappropriate with us (telling us about her wedding night :eek:) and the lower classes wound her up so much she ran out of the school and the head of department had to go hunting and found her at the train station. Bearing in mind we were a nice middle class girls grammar school, that was quite an achievement.

She didn't last long.
Our physics teacher (urgh I can see his face now), was more interested in looking down girls' blouses and standing at the bottom of the girls' stairs (girls and boys had separate stair cases :ohmy:) looking up their skirts than teaching physics. And the domestic science teacher - he was definitely more interested in her than teaching physics.

Sally Redux Jan 25th 2013 11:59 am
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by Cardienscarf (Post 10506247)
girls and boys had separate stair cases :ohmy:
That seems a bit weird.

robin1234 Jan 25th 2013 12:00 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10506237)
They tend to be rather naff don't they :lol: We want a cyber party when you do retire though.
OK let's do it. April 1, 2013 is my effective day of throwing of the yoke. A cyber party might be more fun than the lugubrious do I'll get at the library.

Sally Redux Jan 25th 2013 12:09 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10506263)
OK let's do it. April 1, 2013 is my effective day of throwing of the yoke. A cyber party might be more fun than the lugubrious do I'll get at the library.
It's a date

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/pa...y-emoticon.gif

Cardienscarf Jan 25th 2013 12:14 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10506259)
That seems a bit weird.
It does now that you mention it

Cardienscarf Jan 25th 2013 12:18 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10506263)
lugubrious
Great word. Not one you hear around here very often.

Pulaski Jan 25th 2013 12:32 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by yellowroom (Post 10506244)
........ Bearing in mind we were a nice middle class girls grammar school. .......
:rofl: I think any teacher with experience of teaching high ability students will agree that they can be as challenging as dealing with low ability students. My experience described above was at a boys grammar school. We made life miserable for teachers who didn't "get it", most were excellent, don't get me wrong, but the few who weren't we baited remorselessly! :D

Mr Weeze Jan 25th 2013 12:50 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
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cindyabs Jan 25th 2013 12:57 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10506263)
OK let's do it. April 1, 2013 is my effective day of throwing of the yoke. A cyber party might be more fun than the lugubrious do I'll get at the library.
Hmm, I don't know. :unsure: I've seen The Librarian movies, all 3 of 'em.

yellowroom Jan 25th 2013 1:17 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10506310)
:rofl: I think any teacher with experience of teaching high ability students will agree that they can be as challenging as dealing with low ability students. My experience described above was at a boys grammar school. We made life miserable for teachers who didn't "get it", most were excellent, don't get me wrong, but the few who weren't we baited remorselessly! :D
Yeah, I was just comparing to the experiences of teacher friends of mine. No one at my school wore an electronic tag, or jumped out of the window to escape, or decided to attend to personal hygiene in the middle of class....

I can only remember baiting one (student) teacher. Every time she turned her back on us to write on the backboard, she got random bits of scrunched up paper thrown at her from various pupils. Never acknowledged it happening or addressed it, which in hindsight is weird. We were on the whole very well behaved, if they couldn't cut it with us then they had no business being a teacher.

HarryTheSpider Jan 25th 2013 4:06 pm
Re: Pet Peeves?
 
Originally Posted by cindyabs (Post 10506329)
Hmm, I don't know. :unsure: I've seen The Librarian movies, all 3 of 'em.
I remember the first one, a classic...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CXefLssIRd...elibrarian.jpg


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