It took me a while to get over my dislike of teachers
I was a reasonably well-behaved schoolchild, did my homework, never stabbed anyone, yet my schooldays seemed to be full of shouting teachers. Endless shouting, shouting during lessons, shouting while walking down corridors, shouting while waiting for the bus…I guess the main point that I’m trying to drive home here is that I was unnecessarily shouted at a lot.

Yet every teacher I have met as an adult has been really nice, often the life of the party. I always find it hard to reconcile them with the shouty arseholes I remember from days of yore. Even so, when someone tells me that they are a teacher I get this involuntary urge to say “…oh…”
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:34, 13 replies)

and what do people say
when you tell them you are an accountant?? (says the lawyer)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:35, closed)

One sweet old lady called me a "Bloodsucker" when she found out my profession
I had known her a few years because she lives in my village. She hasn't spoken to me since.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:43, closed)

there is something pleasingly
harry potter/sookie stackhouse-ish about this
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:56, closed)

*Googles Sookie Stackhouse*
nah, i'm not pretty enough...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 May 2010, 17:03, closed)

i don't believe that for a minute
you probably have a very different accent though
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 27 May 2010, 17:19, closed)

"Allroight moi luvver!"
but in all seriousness, I know nothing about the Trueblood series, it has completely passed me by. I think it may be banned in Somerset under witchcraft laws.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 May 2010, 17:30, closed)

i've never seen the tv series
and never ever will. but the books... i hate that kind of stuff. i hate it. which is why i really hate that i was pressured into buying one by the witch in waterstones and now i am completely addicted and can't wait for the 10th one to come out!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 27 May 2010, 17:47, closed)

Well,
I'm a teacher.
(Le Misanthrope last procrastinated on, Thu 27 May 2010, 18:26, closed)

I bet you're a lovely teacher
the teacher below this comment probably spends her evenings clutching a wine glass looking in the mirror and asking herself where it all went wrong
(TwinkleFuckingToes Has a ingrown toe nail, Thu 27 May 2010, 21:21, closed)

I'm a teacher. I'm the life and soul of parties. It's due to my years as a debauched drug-fiend bar manager before becoming a teacher. I Shout at children because it is fun and some of them are cunts, it's a little like acting.
(fakedancingshoes, Thu 27 May 2010, 19:35, closed)

Well there we have it...you shout at children because it's fun
Cunt
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 28 May 2010, 9:23, closed)

I'm a teacher,
never once have I raised my voice to a kid. If I'm completely composed it scares the shit out of the troublesome ones. In all seriousness, I've only met one kid who I couldn't see the good in, such is life, there's always one or two. As for the shouty bastard teachers, they're the reason I became a teacher. One more of my type means one less of them.
(knackerz is skinning up, Sat 29 May 2010, 2:38, closed)

I'm a teacher too!
I, too, rarely raise my voice. The only reason to do so is to prevent an accident or to prevent a deliberate act of unkidness.

Loud teachers = loud children. Loud children = Noisy classes. Noisy classes = no learning going on.

DON'T SHOUT AT CHILDREN!

There. does that have the correct effect on you all?

Thank you.
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Tue 1 Jun 2010, 20:23, closed)