The worst ever
turned up at our school as a supply teacher and due to a chronic staff shortage ended up taking a variety of classes. It was a state run "Catholic" school in the loosest sense of the word, but this guy was an utter religious fanatic. The first RE lesson I had with him consisted of him locking the door in "the shed" (where we had to go due to 'overcrowding') and showing us 13 year olds pictures of aborted foetuses and telling us we were doomed to hell if we took a sacred life and that the foetus would spend eternity in limbo as it was unbaptised.
A week later he brought in his friend from the local hospice who gave us a 'talk' about euthanasia, after which there was a question and answer session. One kid had the temerity to say he thought euthanasia was ok in certain circumstances and received five minutes of verbal abuse from both the adults present.
It was a few weeks after this that a rumour went around the school that he was in trouble for hitting a child. We were scheduled to have a class with him that afternoon, but he just didn't turn up and it was obvious the staff didn't know he wouldn't be there as a substitute substitute didn't get there for half an hour and then refused to answer any of our questions about him.
We never saw him again. That night "the hut" was burned to the ground and the culprit never caught. The only information we ever got out of the teachers about him was that his friend had been sacked from the hospice for forcibly converting the terminally ill to catholicism.
( Zuowan, Thu 10 Nov 2005, 11:06, Reply)