Bang!
Dr P used to teach physics. He was also - fortunately - very tolerant of teenage boys in class. (Apropos of nothing, he was an Ulsterman. This meant that, every time he picked up a piece of equipment, someone'd shout, "IT'S A BOMB!" and the whole class would dive under the bench... but I digress.)

One day, he had the misfortune to have a heart attack while teaching. When he returned to work a few weeks later, his class had set itself a research project. At random points in the lesson, a heavy book would be dropped on the floor to see if the surprise'd cause him to have another infarct.

Well, I think it's a sign of a healthy interest in empirical science...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 14:21, 4 replies)

Teachers can't afford to be ill
It's a sign of weakness, and once the kids find out it's all downhill.

A teacher of mine once announced, with a wavering voice and as much calm as she could manage, that she'd trapped a nerve in her back and wasn't able to get out of her chair. And would one of us please go to the office to get help.

Amid much laughter, everyone proceeded to leave early for lunch instead. Lovely kids we were...
(annexed, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 15:43, closed)

Actually, I can trump that.
We had a maths teacher who came in and asked her generally unruly class to behave a bit better, because her husband had died over the weekend...


Not the wisest move, in retrospect. Kids are shits.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 16:19, closed)

Think that's the worst you can get?
Our class found out a male teacher had a boyfriend.

Hoooo, boy...

Only about three of us weren't utter mongs about it for the next eight months.
(Scritty Bakerman., Sat 15 Aug 2009, 9:50, closed)

Try having a teacher from Iraq during the 2003 invasion...
Actually we were pretty nice to him.

Mainly because we were shit scared of the deputy principal who gave such a hateful, threatening speech the week before he started.

No, to be fair he was pretty cool. Nice guy, who got along with the students and cared about his work.
(suicidalducky has too much time on his hands, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 5:01, closed)