Not sure but
Back in the days when I got QTS, my first job was at a very middle class school, where there were 99% of parents were happy. But there was always one....

First lesson of AS maths, the class asks about the new teacher, where you from etc, and I tell them that this is my first job. One lad pipes up "Are you qualified?", "of course" I respond, whilst secretly thinking what a dick..

Now the next day my head of department gets a phone call from the father of this boy. He basically implied that a new teacher should not be teaching his son. My boss laughed him off and just said "You always get wankers..."

Now, I thought it would go away. But for the rest of the year, he is a twat. No homework, no effort in lessons; detentions go missed and there is no support from home. At parents evening his dad refuses to talk to me, his sons teacher and goes straight to the Head and tells him I've taught his son wrong. Father has employed an ex-teacher, about 70, and my methods are different. They are new, easier etc. I just get more and more depressed in teaching the class.

Now, AS module exams in June. The Lad wants to do medicne, so straight A's needed. I am invidulating the exam and I'm wandering around the room, and as I walk past him, I see he has done question 1 using the wrong equation. 0 marks. A chuckle starts. I wander around and pass him again when he is on Q4. Not only has he used the wrong numbers (x=5, question said 15), but again completely the wrong method; its actually the one he should have used in Q1. Q5 isn't even the right subject.

Now I can't help myself. I make the laugh snort, and have to quickly get out into the corridor. I am laughing so loudly that the other invidualtor thinks its group of kids and comes out to find me on the floor. I regain calm with about 5 mins left and collect up the papers.

As he walks out, he just says "Well, I think I've got well over 90%, no help from you!". At this point I laugh like Brian Blessed and he walks off...

He got 11%.
(Strump striving for imperfection since, Sun 25 Jul 2010, 17:53, 11 replies)

The little shit.
*click*, and hoorah!
(Ellinikos contains a source of phenylalanine, Sun 25 Jul 2010, 17:57, closed)

Invidualtor? Do you mean 'invigilator'?
Great story, anyway!
Surely there was an inquest into the 11% mark? Bet that was funny too.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 25 Jul 2010, 18:59, closed)

oh beaten to it!
and there i was, all up high on my vocabulary pedestal! still, we're talking about a maths teacher here, not english :P
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Sun 25 Jul 2010, 20:13, closed)

rofl i no u dnt nede 2 b litterit 2 teech theeze dys az lng as u lk prsintebl an av a gd speekin vois your ok lol

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 0:27, closed)

MY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYES!
~melts like in Indiana Jones~
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 0:40, closed)

I'm Spartacus the Individualator! :D
(vodders last downloaded improbably arousing pornography on, Sun 25 Jul 2010, 22:56, closed)

No, *I'm* Spartacus the Individualator!
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 0:35, closed)

I'M BRIAN BLESSED!
(Spiked_Rycroft The Prodigal Son, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 1:03, closed)

Gordons alive?!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 10:18, closed)

the system wins!

(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:05, closed)

Ah well, don't worry.
You can always teach PE.
( Scrumper, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 20:37, closed)