I'm sure there have been many...
..old fashioned, sexist woodwork teachers over the years but I give you Mr Buchanan. Firm but fair, you all spent the first year being terrified of him as he took no crap and the woodwork shop was in the area reserved for first years. You would find him puffing away on his pipe during breaks, he wrote your report in perfect copperplate handwriting and encouraged enthusiam when he saw it (yes, even if you were the only girl in the class and he thought you should be sewing or cooking)and I believe he was well known for running various boys only trips before my time there.
The bit I never got was how he could so regularly slice his thumb on the circular saw (without swearing)and just calmly wander back in with it wrapped in a hankie and tell us to turn everything off while he nipped out to get it bandaged up at the office.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 12:12, 2 replies)

Mr Bristow
Was a similar man. His combover started above his left ear and reached the other - on windy days it was a constant battle between his hand sweeping it flat and the air lifting it up like a kite.

If anyone so much as even started up any machine without wearing safety goggles, he'd shut down the entire electricity grid for East Anglia using his 'special switch' on the wall.
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 12:18, closed)

My GCSE Resistant Materials (new name for what used to be woodwork etc) teacher was female.
The thick kids in my class made her cry.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 17 Mar 2011, 17:38, closed)