Awesome teachersTeachers have been getting a right kicking recently and it's not fair. So, let's hear it for the teachers who've inspired you, made you laugh, or helped you to make massive explosions in the chemistry lab. (Thanks to Godwin's Lawyer for the suggestion)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 11:18)
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We had a teacher in junior schoolwho obviously fancied herself as a bit of a spelling whizz. She held a weekly challenge, any pupil could challenge her to spell a word, and if she got it wrong she would give the pupil 10p. This would have been circa 1975 (I would have been 8 or 9), when you could buy a packet of fags and a can of tennents for 6p.
The rule was it had to be a word in everyday use.
So, lots of marmalade, wheelbarrow and acknowledgements later, one kid stands up and says 'this is a chemical farmers use. It's a popular word, as it is in the news quite a lot. It's DDT. The actual word is dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane'
To give her credit, the teatcher sourly stated it wasn't a 'normal' word, he hadn't even pronounced it properly, and she wasn't going to try it. She then covered herself in further glory by chucking 5p at him, and cancelling the competition.
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Not Pineapple anymore, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:30,
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