Trundle wheels!
I remember trundle wheels being used at primary school. Six of us were divided up into two groups to "Measure the playing field". One group got the trundle wheel, and our group got a 12" ruler.

So the trundle wheel group were done in two minutes flat, while we were laboriously laying out the ruler, and in true small child manner we were placing a fingertip at the end of the ruler to "mark the place", moving the ruler and then moving the fingertip, and so on and so on.

40 minutes later the teacher came out and started shouting at us; I've still no idea why she was so cross. We were just doing what we were told.
(richardm, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 17:28, 1 reply)

Primary school teachers could be absolute fuckers for no fathomable reason
you just accept it when you're that age
( Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 20:38, closed)