I guess it's not for everybody
Some people feel, my geography teacher Mr. T-G was a little weird. And yes, he would be chewing chalk during lectures, and tell us in detail about its texture. And yes, he would be mocking that little swot over her mama, or mockingly imitate his teacher colleagues when they were wining about students. But he was probably the single most brilliant person in our school.

There are just too many stories to relate of him. On a field trip on a rainy day, he decided to make a cross country car race against the other cars in our group. As nobody knew the route for the day, they just had to follow him through the fields. When two of the other cars got stuck in the mud, he just laughed “amateurs”, and sped on.
He used to bake his own bread, and often had vegetable from his own garden. One particularly fat teacher saw this, and said “Oh my, you are eating very healthy food” or some such phrase. He answered with a big shit eating grin “Well, am I supposed to eat ill food then?”
He was not just another nut, though. He was actually a brilliant teacher, and taught us everything from economics to geology to proper manners. And he did it in a way both memorable and understandable to our pubescent brains, and so we could always make a connection between our knowledge and the world around us.

Unfortunately, he also liked to flirt with all the girls in the class. And while for the older kids this was a fun little game, the parents of the younger kids didn’t take forgivingly to it. He was expelled some time after I had left school. Some teachers should be kept strictly to the higher classes I guess. Young kids just don’t appreciate a teacher telling them “I’m really looking forward to parents’ evening, when I am going to shag your mom on those maps you see here.”
( BringYourOwnParachute Meet me here on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 15:31, Reply)