Mrs Beames the French teacher some time in the early 80's
We hated learning French, didn't see the point in it so we'd do anything possible to avoid doing any actual learning. One day the store room that ran the length of the back of the class was left unlocked, so someone decided it'd be a jolly hoot if everyone was to hide in it and wait for Mrs Beames to arrive.

We managed to cram 30 or so of ourselves into this room and then we waited for teacher to arrive, which she duly did. Several of us were able to peer through the small glass panels near the ceiling and witnessed Mrs Beames enter the room, look around somewhat baffled, turn around and walk back out agian.

This was the cue for everyone to pile out of the store cupboard, quickly set up their books and pens and sit there looking innocent.

2 or 3 minutes later she arrived back in the room, got her books out and said nothing more.

She was probably a bit irritated that she could barely get any sense out of us for the whole lesson as we'd spontaneously burst out into fits of giggles about the whole thing.

About 6 months later she acknowledged that it was clear we didn't want to learn French so she started teaching us some Spanish instead. The following year she divided the class into those who wanted to learn French and those who didn't. She left us alone to do whatever we liked so long as we didn't disrupt the rest of the class.

She was pretty cool was Mrs Beames.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 13:01, 6 replies)

Giving up on kids makes teachers cool?
Maybe I should become a teacher.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:21, closed)

When you're 13 and the teacher lets you skip off, yea she was cool.
Irresponsible, but cool.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:30, closed)

All the cool teachers are doing it.

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:42, closed)

Further proof that humanity was fucked as soon as the concept of 'cool' was invented
think about it.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 14:46, closed)

I think humanity was fucked when religion was invented.
Especially the cool religions.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 16:22, closed)

Kwanzaa
*shakes fist*
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 16:23, closed)