Oh we had some bizarre teachers.
None of them quite as clearly mentally unbalanced and/or good fun as many of the stories already posted - the usual run of slightly unhinged science teachers, hot French teachers who were really German, and a CDT teacher who built his own car on the sly with schools materials.

The only one who sticks out is Mr Slack. Mr Slack had story after story, and a Geology lesson could easily be taken down by setting him off on a discussion about the local area in the Second World War or the history of the Kimbolton railway.

Mr Slack had MS, and at some point had procured an amazingly fast electric wheelchair. One day, a disruptive child had hidden from his then-housemaster in maths, safe - or so he thought - two floors up at the top of F-block, with no lift.

Not so. This wheelchair climbed stairs. The look of horror and surprise on the lad's face was apparently sufficient for Slack never to have to actually wheel up the stairs ever again.
(MightyX5 living on a small island on, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 12:24, 5 replies)

Need
to see this marvellous contraption.

You're sitting on a a potential dalek-goldmine (pun INTENDED)

LOLZ
( elgordo, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:56, closed)

my thoughts exactly
he sounds like some kind of badass geology dalek.
(venort apparently exists, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:13, closed)

It was brilliant
It also had the standard electric wheelchair "throttle" which went from "turtle" to "rabbit", but had been bodged so that it went beyond this to something like "hare on meth".

You could hear him coming a mile off, and he frequently slammed the front of it into accidentally-locked corridor firedoors, just to prove the point that they should be open.

Will attempt a crude chair-drawing later - it was completely bespoke at the time and there's no pictures anywhere
(MightyX5 living on a small island on, Tue 22 Mar 2011, 8:14, closed)

Mr Slack...
The name rings a bell, but not the MS or wheelchair.

But then I was gone from Longsands in '85
( snee held his breath since, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:20, closed)

This was later
I was there 94-99. Mr Slack had been there since the 70s so no doubt you encountered him pre-MS.

Jury still out on whether he was an actual spy or not during the war
(MightyX5 living on a small island on, Tue 22 Mar 2011, 8:10, closed)