Maths teacher
Our maths teacher, Mr Turnbull, was a bit odd. He used to shave in the cupboard, and he once locked my friend Ruth and I into his classroom at lunchtime when we were having extra tuition. Would have been weirder if he had been in the room too.

My parents still talk of the parent/teacher evening in which he asked them whose parents they were, then proceeded to talk entirely in numbers. Apparently I was '7.3 and 10 although sometimes 9 but mainly 8 to 11, careful she doesn't go below 50'. They maintain that this is why they didn't know I was failing maths for the whole of that year.
( ascorbate, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 14:30, Reply)