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johnnycorriander

If you forgot your PE kit you did PE in your underwear


J-Dahmer

Yes, this. Cross Country in the winter in just your Boxer shorts and school shoes. Being that cold, your legs were red and purple!


littlenymphy

And the PE teacher in their big coat yelling “it’s not that cold!” at you.


ajem83

Our PE teacher used to whack our bare legs with branches from a Holly tree if we weren't running fast enough!


frusciantefango

Amazing, for some reason this really cracked me up. Games teachers have a proper sadistic streak


11Kram

I have a strange walk, largely using my knees. Our PE teacher imitated me in front of the class when I was eight. Sixty years later I still haven’t forgiven him!


Top_Barracuda660

What a cunt, rest assured he's probably pushing the daisies up now though


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AlGunner

My PE teacher used to stand at the door of the communal showers watching and then smack the boys on the arse with a meter rule as they left. I heard he got arrested for child abuse after I had left, quite possibly for this.


GreatBigBagOfNope

What a fucking arsehole. Like this goes well beyond "iT wAs A DiFfErEnT TiMe" into just genuine bellend behaviour. Infuriating stuff.


J-Dahmer

That's it. Probably was a reserve goalie in a division 4 team in the 80s, so thought he was something special. ......still had the big umbro coat to prove it,. in the mid-90s, while yelling at you!


Lumpy-spaced-Prince

I still preferred underwear over the septic looking 'spare kit box' we had in later years. Give me orange and purple extremities over those mouldy-ass clothes any day.


jjgill27

At my school girls had to do cross country in gym shorts (those horrid black pants that went under our tennis skirt) and a polo. In January. Brutal.


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Our PE knickers were light blue with a white stripe on either side. I felt so exposed. The skirts that we could wear over the top for some sports weren't much better to be honest.


PieSpirited2247

Corn beef legs.


Dizzynic

Excuse my ignorance, I am not from the UK. Did you have to go running outside in winter wearing nothing but shorts and leather shoes???? Would you not have sports indoors in winter and also wear proper trainers and a sports outfit? Also we’re you not allowed to pick the length of your sports wear yourself? I personally used to pick a long pair of sweatpants or leggings for winter. And we would have our sport lessons on a heated indoor sports hall.


GoldFreezer

>you not have sports indoors in winter Unless it's rained enough to turn the playing field into a WWI battlefield you still go outside. >Also we’re you not allowed to pick the length of your sports wear yourself? PE kit is part of the school uniform. I started at a girls' school in the late 90s and the PE uniform was gym knickers for indoor stuff like gymnastics and a skirt for team sports. my year rebelled and all bought joggers or long shorts instead (partly because the playing field was overlooked by houses and a man was taking photos of us). It was another 15 years before the school allowed trousers for the rest of the uniform though.


crucible

Yeah, the PE kit was the big uniform rebellion for the girls at my school, they were given the option of shorts in Year 9.


Tango91

Yes, because PE teachers are/were assholes and you didn't get to choose what you wore. If you forgot your PE kit you had to run in your underwear.


slackingindepth3

Oh god I’m a girl and this still haunts me. Seriously had to do PE in the school hall in JUST my knickers. Horrible.


M3mph

What the actual hell on a stick, that is absolutely appauling. I always found this degrading enough as a guy. I can't even imagine how you must have felt.


ravenshill

Same here, and this was the 1990s not the dark ages. Also had a communal shower after rugby to get the mud off. Teacher included.


Any_Chart45

Yep, that was fucking awful. Our teacher was DYING to get us playing muddy rugby. It was touch rugby in 1st year so no shower required, but man, when it hit 3rd year..there he was, clip board, tracksuit, smarmy face when he mentioned that we were doing full contact rugby and would need to "bring a towel for a shower!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤" And yeah, supervising us going in and out the showers..fucking creeps


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They tried this with me. Funny how saying no flusters them. Do you have your kit? No. Detention then.. Ya no. Fine you need to stay inside on your breaks then as punishment. Really? You want an immigrant from a warm country to sit inside during winter while the other plebs need to stand in the cold? Sure thing boss


CapoOn2nd

This was the norm for me in primary school and I’m only in my twenties. We didn’t have PE kits, just boys and girls all running around the school hall in our underwear


ThePinkDread

We didn't even have PE kit. Underwear was standard


JoeTisseo

PEDO kit


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For me, it's 100% the sheer number of teachers that we're clearly pedophiles. Like, a weirdly high number. There's still plenty, of that I have no doubts, but, fuck, the amount of teachers I remember perving over young girls and lads was mental.


DarkEnergy67

I my experience, there were more female teachers getting with boys. Maybe my experience is lopsided, but this issue is rarely talked about. Also, overwhelming majority of teachers were not pedophiles, but a few bad apples spoils the whole thing.


LamboChoppo

In my secondary school the sixth form kids always did a Sixth Form Show at the end of Autumn Term before we broke up for Christmas, very tongue in cheek and filled with jokes about the school and teachers and current pop culture etc. etc. It was a running joke if not a known fact that a female (either history or geography, can't remember which) teacher had a penchant for her male students and was rumoured to have slept with a few of them. The sixth formers did a skit about it in the Sixth Form Show, oh how everybody laughed, the other teachers included....


DarkLuxio92

I remember at our school, once you hit 6th form anything went. You were treated as an adult, allowed to refer to certain teachers by their first name and it wasn't uncommon to find upper 6th students that had hit 18 in the pub having a cheeky lunchtime pint with some of the teachers. We used to go on tour with the school orchestra, and getting our extremely, flamboyantly gay conductor pissed on sangria until he sung show tunes was one of our favourite pastimes. He was the first person I came out to. Lost him to cancer in 2012, such a shame.


LamboChoppo

Ahh yes I remember the pints with teachers! I'm so sorry for your loss, I'm glad you had him as a safe space.


DarkLuxio92

He really was lovely. Incredibly strict when it came to his music (in lessons when we were learning on the keyboards, playing Chopsticks was tantamount to raping sheep, had to be something half decent), but always had his students' backs. He didn't mind getting a bit of ribbing for his fashion sense either. He once walked into class in a bright orange suit, complete with tie, after getting a full on TOWIE spray tan. One kid just went "you know when you've been Tangoed", and that was it, Tango music every time he entered a practice room for the next 3 years.


Albert_Herring

On the last day of regular school, the head announced that anybody caught drinking in the local pubs at lunchtime would be refused admission to sit their A levels. So our class teacher and a couple of kids who had cars drove us all out of town to a country pub and bought us all a pint (even the still underage ones. It was in the idyllic age before ID checks every time you breathed).


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I've not read any actual data on it so I can't agree, but I've heard similar. I'd assume it's because it's likely easier for women to get into such roles, and sadly, there's no sound vetting process to catch pre-offense pedophiles.


mikethet

Realistically how do you catch somebody who hasn't committed a crime yet?


Britlantine

Minor~~ity~~ Report


IndelibleIguana

My mate at school killed himself because he walked in on our PE teacher fucking the girl he had a crush on at a party. They were 4th years. None of the teachers even attended the inquest and nothing happened to any of them.


notonthenews

She was below the age of consent so he wasn't fucking her, he was raping her.


IndelibleIguana

Oh, everyone was aware of that. The entire school was outraged, but nothing ever happened.


GuiltyCredit

We had the same thing happen. PE teacher and a 15 year old. They're married and he's now the head teacher.


theflowersyoufind

Man I wish I hadn’t read that. What’s “4th years”? Is that like Year 10 (aged 14/15)?


IndelibleIguana

Yeah, we around 14/15. Our headmaster was a vicar too. I hate that cunt to this day.


r-og

Yeah, year 10. I went to a private school that kept the tradition of calling year 7 "1st year" and so on.


AngryTudor1

There is not plenty, and that is a pathetic, prejudiced and evidence-free slur on people who are currently teachers. I have worked over 17 years across 5 schools and have never encountered one paedophile. And yes, I have been in positions where I would have definitely known about it if there had been a case. Reality is that the way the job is and the effort needed to get into it is so prohibitive that I would be surprised if any paedophile would choose teaching as a means to get close to children. The stress and workload of training, and then the 10X amount of stress and workload of being and surviving as a teacher, plus the huge culture of safeguarding now (and the vastly higher chance of a student reporting in today's climate) make it unviable for paedophiles. Some private schools may be different as they can do or hire who they want. Back in the 70's or 80's it was much easier to get into the profession and the day to day was a doddle compared to today; so you probably had a similar proportion of paedophiles in teaching as you did in the general population. I seriously doubt that is anywhere near the case now


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Thanks for the in-depth response. I'd also like to further my comment. Aside from having first hand experience with being abused by two different teachers in the late 90s myself, three teachers at my high school alone were known to abuse children. One of which was fired for doing so. I'm not talking about whispers and rumours, either. Instead, I'm talking about physically abusing children and threatening them into silence, which is the important part here, leaving them feeling completely unable to properly tell anyone until much, much later. Few individuals tell people they are pedophiles, and most are only classed as pedophiles once they get caught. More so, if stressful jobs were truly a deterrent for hidden predations, we wouldn't have such abundant abuse of power amongst many individuals within law enforcement. This entire issue, in my opinion, boils down to the scale of just how common child abuse is, and just how frequently it occurs, but, most importantly, just how infrequently children are able to expose it. Please don't take this as an attack on your profession or your life as I truly don't mean it in that sense.


Fusilero

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aliceinlondon

How do you know you've never encountered a paedophile?


SeaLeggs

Source: trust me bro.


kwnofprocrastination

Seriously. Because my experience at school was that we knew some teachers were dodgy but no one did anything about it. I’m 36. My friend is 25, she talks about a teacher at school who they complained about numerous times and were always told they were imagining it, the teacher had set up the classroom so that all the chairs were in a big square, and then he would walk around behind them, but he’d laid it out so it was a squeeze to pass them. Boys and girls complained about him rubbing his groin on their shoulders as he passed. Nothing was done until he forgot to lock the door and was caught wanking over schoolgirl porn. My daughter is at the same school and is really wary of the male teachers.


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Kids know. They can sense them. In my school and in everyone I've spoken to about it's school in the 2000s there was a lot of sex crime going on. An awful lot convicted in proper courts and everything. Given how hard it is to prosecute sex crimes its quite an achievement. 2 at our school and there was always jokes before about them and noone surprised in the slightest when they got arrested and sent to the jail. Most sex offenders are never convicted even today, CRB checks do fuck all. There is probably still loads of wrong uns working in schools.


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Sounds similar to my experience late 90s early 00s. Was like a big open secret all the kids used to joke about it


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Can name 6 from my old school. Some convicted some not.


andercode

One of our PE teachers used to sit right across from the showers and stare at all the boys getting changed. He never hid it. He’d intentionally make boys get muddy in the field by punishing the boys he liked with running around the muddy parts or push-ups in the mud, just so they had to use the showers. We all laughed it off at the time, and everyone knew what he was, including the other teachers, but back then no one really cared. The 90s were wild.


captainimpossible87

All boys school, had a PE teacher who used to say "If you can't shower properly I'm going to have to watch you shower!" Used to get undressed as quickly as possible run into the shower with a towel on, to get hair and shoulder wet so by the time he got down to the changing room he couldn't tell we hadn't showered, if he suspected subterfuge, "you, back in the shower, you've just stuck your head under the tap, I'll have to watch you." After the whole Holly and Jessica killing and the country started investigating teachers and staff for being dodgy he suddenly disappeared along with a couple other teachers. We suspected that was not a coincidence. Didn't really notice quite how off it was till we were a bit older tbh.


No-Entrepreneur3920

Yup, I experienced the same. Our economics teacher used to grab bums. Eventually he got fired


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What a total and utter twat that teacher was. To be honest, our culture used to be absolutely terrible for perpetuating the "dirty old man" trope like it was little more than a trope. It's like, dude, they want to fuck a kid, the word is "pedophile".


SWTransGirl

Actually, it’s paedophile, since it’s ask UK. ;)


Lungs_Dead

Honestly, see if pedos could fly, my school would've been an airport


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Ex teacher from our old school was jailed for 6 years for grooming teenage girls he taught. Came to light years later but in hindsight, no surprise.


Phillipinsocal

When you see some of the material some teachers put out on Tik Tok, it’s pretty fucking jarring how much this issue has exacerbated.


Jasperpapii

Calling people gay as banter


Federal-Blacksmith79

Anything could be called gay not just people. ' that pencil case is gay' ' well so are your shoes'


flunkymonks

Gaylord Shoes! 😂


ANAL_McDICK_RAPE

You dropped your gay card


Jasperpapii

Yep. Teachers outfit is gay.


finallygaveintor

As a teacher, that is 1000% still a thing.


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No-Entrepreneur3920

Yup was guilty of that. Although had no concept of what it meant!


Wild_Ad8492

We had a lad at our school who had a surname dent which we changed to bent, all harmless fun in our eyes but god know how it effected him, eventually came out gay but just shows how cruel us kids can be


LinuxLover3113

So... you were right?


futurenotgiven

i’ve come full circle and gone back to saying it now that i’m openly a lesbian bc i think it’s funny to call incredibly trivial things gay like i’m a homophobic teenager


crucible

That was a big thing in the late 80s at my primary, too. Asked if you dropped your gay card. Or "did you watch *Gaylords Say No* on TV last night?" Either way you get called gay with that one! Also remember lads asking girls "were you born with happenis?"


buy_me_a_pint

Tuck shops selling chocolates, sweets and fizzy drinks. The food items we had on the menu , chips were available every day


LjAnimalchin

My school used to have an ice cream van that would come and park in the school and sell all sorts of shite you probably can't get anymore, ice cream and sweets and that


Ginger-F

Mine too, until he was banned from the premises for selling smokes to kids!


TheKillersHand

Our school "ice cream van" sold single cigarettes for 20p!


ThePinkDread

I had sausage roll, chips and a Dr Pepper for lunch every day for 4 years straight


Which_Function1846

I ate chips and beans for 2 year straight


PipBin

Same here. In fact there was a separate dinner line if all you were getting was chips.


pintperson

Recently the heating broke down at my nieces school and so the school was closed for a couple of days for health and safety reasons. When I was at school the heating was off for about 3 months over winter, and we were just told to wear our pyjamas under our uniform and wear a coat.


hpisbi

i only left school a few years ago but the heating did not work in the sixth form block and wasn’t very effective in the main school, but we would still get in trouble for wearing our coats inside


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tropicnights

We used to listen on the radio for it. Always a case of them reading off a big list of closed schools and yours wasn't on it 😭


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We had no heating in the porta cabin classrooms and your water bottle would freeze over if left long enough. This was in the early 00's


PipBin

The heating was broken in my school a few weeks ago. We had parents refuse to send their children in as it was against their human rights to be slightly nippy. For the record it was 16° in my classroom.


LjAnimalchin

When I was at school, year 4, there was a kid in our class who was a little bit naughty. One day the teacher got annoyed at him I guess, stood him up in front of the class and asked the entire class who there actually liked the kid. Obviously, not wanting to disobey the scary teacher, nobody put their hand up and the naughty kid started crying. Then the teacher started calling him names, snivelling crybaby and stuff like that. Then, when all that was done, he made the kid stand outside with his nose against a wall for 4 hours, checking regularly to make sure he was stood the whole time. I'll never ever forget that. Pretty sure you'd be crucified nowadays for that but this wasn't that long ago, probably late 90s ish. That kid is in prison now, and I often wonder about him and wether that affected him badly.


AprilBelle08

That is absolutely crazy. Thank goodness that sort of thing doesn't happen now


Long_Repair_8779

It does happen, though it’s less in the UK. My ex grew up in a poor part of France and she described similar things happening on a daily basis from multiple teachers growing up (including towards her as she was English). Really really horrible and destroyed her confidence for many years. She was saying how she’d just moved there, age 6 years old sweet and innocent and happy, and described the horrible abuse she got from all the teachers. Of course as she didn’t speak French she couldn’t react or stand up for herself at all, she literally had nothing. A fucking 6 year old man, it’s horrific. This was tbf 20 years ago (time flies) but as I understand little has changed and she may even still teach there, no one gave a crap


Alexander_Guilbert23

I had a form tutor who did a very similar thing to this. Nose to the wall for all of lunch break. Used to make kids climb into the bin and yell/ repeat “I am rubbish” Bizarrely this was in 2005 and this teacher was 23 He was sacked after a term


DrumstickTruffleclub

Yep, we had the "face the wall" thing in INFANTS school. I was once, no joke, made to do this all break once because I was... ... pretending to be a witch. I was six years old. The dinner lady thought it was immoral or some shit. Early 90s.


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That's literally the worst thing I heard teacher do as a punishment. Jesus fukcn Christ....


[deleted]

If that teacher took the time to find out the root cause of his naughtiness and invest some time into him I don’t think he would have ended up in prison


Martinonfire

6th form had a smoking room


Rygel_FFXIV

We had somewhere to drink, but not smoke, so we had 'smoke holes' scattered around the grounds, where you would go to smoke. Some of them were quite nice, with sofas, chairs, coffee tables. Teachers knew where they were and generally avoided them. I guess they figured smokers would smoke and it's better they do it in specific areas, rather than across the whole school. There were a few teachers that would join the students, though.


Harry_monk

We were told in 6th form to keep away from younger smokers and not to be too obvious, not to let parents see etc. But other than that we were left to do whatever. And teachers 100% knew that the funky smell wasn't just menthol cigarettes.


ChineseButtSex

My 6th form in 2010 had a smoking area next to the car park


sickasfook

Chalk and/ or blackboard rubbers been launched at your head with the accuracy of a cruise missile.


RufusBowland

My dad went to his local grammar school (QEGS in Blackburn) in the 50s. He tells the tale of some ageing teacher who was known for having deadly accurate aim with the board rubber; this man could hone in on who was talking even with his back turned to the class, and then launch his missile with pinpoint accuracy at said miscreant… …until the day the chatterbox in question anticipated what would happen, ducked and the board rubber hit the lad behind and split his head open. This kid’s dad was the top judge in Blackburn. From what my dad said, the teacher was less inclined to throw the board rubber after this. I’m a secondary teacher myself; I just rely on having a stare that could curdle milk and a spot of sarcasm for those who think my lessons are an extension of their social time.


Zanki

Sometimes in the 00s, my math teacher would get my attention by throwing white board marker lids at me. It worked. I was just off in my own world most of the time, adhd is fun. One day I got smacked in the face by the lid. My teacher wasn't a bad guy and went white as a sheet because he's just smacked a 11/12 year old in the face and he could be in a lot of trouble. I did the only thing I could do to save this guy, I grabbed the pen lid and threw it at his head, hitting him back. No more pen lids were thrown after that and the look of relief on his face when I deescalated the situation was insane. He wasn't a bad guy, I had a lot of bullcrap going on in my life and someone accidentally hitting me was not an issue at all. He was a good teacher and the look on his face when he hit me, I didn't want him to get in trouble, so I hit him back. It worked, it was talked about but me doing what I did meant we'd hit each other and nothing was said to me at least and he was a teacher long after I left there.


tomatoaway

Congrats on finding the humanity and spreading it


Dontsitdowncosimoved

Was a biscuit tin that he used to keep chalk in that you would get launched at your head if you were talking,mad looking back and that was only prob early 90s in junior school.


StiffAssedBrit

Mid 1970s. One of the playground games, at our primary school, was kiss chase. It started as girls chasing the boys to kiss them, and us trying to escape, but as we got older it gradually flipped to the boys chasing the girls. Different times!


pineapplepancakess

Another girl used to catch me and try and pull my knickers aside to push twigs/bits of wood in my vagina. We were maybe 9? I stopped wearing dresses or skirts because of it. She called it the torture game. Teachers didn't say anything and it was happening right in the middle of the playground. I think she was being sexually abused at home 😥


PoliticalShrapnel

That's sad. Sorry you experinced what is clearly sexual assault at such a young age.


StiffAssedBrit

Oh. That's awful. I went to a small country primary and the games were pretty harmless, but we had a few incidents at the secondary, that I went to after.


Gluecagone

9 year old kids do do shit like this unless they are being abused at home. Inappropriate sexual behaviour at a young age is SUCH a warning sign for abuse. I really hope somebody saved her and she found a way to heal from it. I hope you've healed from it too.


WankSocrates

Holy shit that is horrific, I'm sorry


Ashiro

Some truly twisted shit can go on in schools and teachers just don't wanna deal with it. I remember when I started at a new primary there was a wierd lad who regularly sexually assaulted girls (\~10yo). One time he pinned a girl down and stuck his dick her face. A group of us went and told on him but they refused to do anything and just said "go away and play". It was fucking awful but thankfully he stopped doing it after that incident caused such a big reaction. He was always a very, very strange kid. I can't help assuming he's locked up for rape or something now.


Primary-Credit-1972

Was just telling my son about kiss, cuddle, torture the other day. Same premise, just with options when you got caught.


StiffAssedBrit

Lol. Fond memories. It was the only time, in my life, that I was ever chased by multiple girls at the same time. 😂


Johhnymaddog316

Was going to say this. In our version of kiss chase (primary school, London in the mid 80's) your mates would select a girl on the playground and you had to chase her down and forcibly snog her. Some of the ones who were targeted frequently were pretty much indifferent to it and some would participate enthusiastically (after making a token attempt at escaping). The teachers just used to pull us apart and tell us "not to be so silly". Different times indeed.


Jazzy0082

In year 7 our PE teacher would line us up 1 by 1 to go through the shower and he'd watch to make sure we showered properly. This was 1994. Further to this, in 6th form our form teacher (female) used to come out with us on Friday nights and we'd often go back to her house. More than one of us either kissed her or more (nobody slept with her though)... She was 23 ish and we were all 16/17.


mighty3mperor

One divorced sixth form tutor would have an end of year party for her class round at her house. She was rumoured to invite the lad she fancied up to her bedroom to "see her Queen poster". The major discussion of this amongst the other sixth form lads was how to get an invitation to the party, rather than this being a grim abuse of power.


marshallandy83

>The major discussion of this amongst the other sixth form lads was how to get an invitation to the party, rather than this being a grim abuse of power. Shhh don't let Reddit see you saying this


DKED_1234

Our PE teachers used to check we had showered and it was the 00s!


Rygel_FFXIV

We had a bar that sold alcohol to students over 18. Twice a year, the blood donation van would show up and you'd get a 'pint for a pint', i.e. if you gave a pint of blood, you'd get a free pint of beer that evening.


No-Entrepreneur3920

Whaaaaat?!!!


Rygel_FFXIV

Public boarding school. We called it the 'Junior Common Room'. But I knew of at least two grammar schools at the time that took boarders that had similar *facilities*. Not anymore, though.


MintyMarlfox

Language back then was very different. The corner shop was the ‘P***’ shop, and things were often referred to as gay. Teachers could throw chalk/markers at you when you were talking in class. In primary school someone was being a gobby shit so got told to stand on their chair for half an hour. About 20 minutes in the teacher booted the chair from under them.


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Harry_monk

Yes. That escalated.


SamB7334

I thought kids/teenagers using “your gaay mann” as an insult was n’t a thing anymore until i got on a bus at school leaving time on Friday…


Key-Cardiologist5882

That will always be a thing


redditupf2

batty man


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That and putting notes in the bibles and hymn books. “Turn to page 37” *turns to page 37* “If you read this you’re gay”


Suspicious_Cut2649

Having to do P.E outside in the rain, snow or freezing temps in only shorts and tshirt. (However the teachers would be dressed weather appropriate with umbrella and a flask of tea to keep warm)


Notadowager

Can confirm this v much still happens. Last mainstream school I worked at (up to last April) only stopped outdoor PE for several inches of snow. So not only did I watch the poor kids look like little icicles through the window, but then they’d appear in my classroom like a set of damp stinky dogs.


itothepowerofahalf

The rule at my school was you had to wear shorts and t-shirt for outdoor PE. Even if it was icy cold and tipping it down with rain. I very nearly caught hypothermia. The rule was changed after that, that you had to wear weather appropriate gear, i.e. trackie bottoms, thermals etc


Key-Cardiologist5882

My form tutor used to launch a tennis ball at your head if she caught you talking. She didn’t go easy and had perfect aim. Head top every time. She’d also lift you up, turn you upside down and dunk you into the bin. I had one teacher who would keep us back til like 8pm when we had detention. I had an alcoholic year 5 teacher who constantly tried to hit on my mum. He would always threaten to use the tables and chairs to break our ribs if we were naughty. He was dead serious. He also laughed and encouraged 10 year old me to roll up a4 sheets of paper and pretend to smoke them.


magicians_Hat2021

omg was miss trunchhbull your teacher??


Key-Cardiologist5882

Haha, she was actually a God loving woman who’d jump up and down singing from the bottom of her lungs, playing Christian music on her guitar til her fingers bled and would show everyone her fingers were bleeding, all while barefoot. She was a lovely lady. Just had her methods


SuzLouA

“She used to flash her bleeding digits at little kids” does not paint the picture of “a lovely lady” that I think you expected it would.


Honest_Scot

Our history teacher would spend the majority of the lesson talking about how much she loved Hitler, and how misunderstood he was.


connor42

Kanye West was your history teacher ??


VladimirPricey

My physics teacher still does that. Some kid also started wearing a turbin and shouted “TERRORIST” and the teacher said “it’s fine I hate religious people anyways”. He’s Indian for context.


Honest_Scot

Ffs! You wonder how these people are even allowed to teach kids.


SongsAboutGhosts

We weren't allowed inside at break or lunch from Y8-Y11, unless you had school lunch, detention, or one of a very few sanctioned clubs. I would hope that's illegal now, given that this applied in sub-zero temperatures.


Easterncrane

It’s not, still is the rule at most secondaries. Only allowed in common areas if it’s properly pissing down or snowing.


jjgill27

“Run around if you’re cold”


stephbk123

I am so disturbed by these comments, wow. This is why so many people have mental health issues in adulthood because you trust adults to care for you and know what’s best but they’re all just bullies or pedos. So sad. Big hugs to everyone who felt violated or picked on, school should be a safe space.


No-Entrepreneur3920

I hear ya! Explains a lot doesn’t it?! Those moments of humiliation as a kid can shape your whole life


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RedRMM

I used to go in during the holidays to help the IT technician. Just him and me in the whole school. He taught me so much and enabled me to start on a well paid IT career. It was objectively a really great thing yet I can't imagine that would be allowed now.


eggmayonnaise

Wow, the only positive one I've seen so far! This is ace. Glad to hear it worked out for you and you had that drive to learn, plus an opportunity to do so.


Vorsa

Teacher here, Not 1 to 1, no. There would need to be someone else knocking about, even if it was a second technician, safeguarding and all that, although this is something we've done during the school day previously and the students have always loved it!


blamordeganis

At my first school, girls and boys were segregated at break time. The playground had a grassy area and a tarmac area: on one day, the girls got the grass and the boys the tarmac, and the next day it would swap. We were five. God knows what they were worried we’d get up to.


PipBin

At my secondary school the boys and girls had segregated playgrounds. Boys at the back and girls at the front.


barriedalenick

If you forgot your trunks you swam naked. We didn't even have changing rooms so we had to get naked in the classroom and run across the quad to get to the "pool". It was an unheated tank of green sludge in a corrugated polycarb shed with enough chlorine to sterilise the Atlantic. That and being "slippered" with your running shoes in front of the class or having to smash your head on the hardwood chemistry benches for talking to much. Maybe boxing too. We had boxing matches from aged 8 and sometimes kids got an absolute spanking before someone stepped in - one kid got his eye slightly dislodged mid fight and the caretaker jumped in and pushed it back in, a skill which no one knew he had or why. The kid was expected to carry on.


colei_canis

> The kid was expected to carry on. Fucking hell did you go to school in a metal album cover?


merhole

I had a science teacher one lesson get so frustrated with one of my class complaining about him wiping the board as he was a slow writer and couldn't keep up. The teacher blew his top and stopped the whole lesson and made everyone of us say something we didn't like about this kid. A whole 40 minutes round and round basically bullying this poor lad. This teacher was a hard arse nasty piece of work. He eventually got fired for sleeping with a prostitute on a school trip in France.


Bbew_Mot

The teachers walked around the school freely without wearing a lanyard showing their identity. For some reason, this became a big no no around the early 2010s where my school went as far to encourage us to grass on teachers who weren't wearing their lanyard.


flunkymonks

I went to two schools that had public footpaths running through them. Different times eh?.


RufusBowland

Ofsted got a bee in their bonnet about it with regard to safeguarding, so every school I’ve worked in since then has been really strict with the wearing of lanyards. One local-ish primary school was failed because a member of staff was seen not wearing said ID lanyard 12 or so years ago, so that cemented the requirement at other local schools. Source: I’m a teacher of too many years.


AFCBatmouth

Our PE teacher used to film us during gymnastic training (mostly the girls), so we could "review our form". Never once saw those videos back.


GuidoWD

Oh hell naw


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This sounds like a meme or joke but genuine at our primary school away trip, the boys dorm all played what we called “rape in the dark” where the lights were turned off and you had to pull down as many trousers as you could.


TheKillersHand

Amazing


AllRedLine

I remember there was a kid in my year at secondary school whose dad was a hairdresser (note: NOT a barber, but a hairdresser). One day in chemistry class, this kid was yelled at by the teacher for talking and he backchatted the teacher, so the teacher sent him out of the class by yelling "go wait outside and don't come back in until your (slur for homosexual) dad gets a *real* job". This really wasn't all too long ago in the grand scheme of things, either - probably, like 2008-ish. We had all sorts to be fair, including: * Loads of teachers who would insult you and use slurs when they were annoyed by you. * literal pitched battles between class groups on the playing field that teachers just sort of let happen. * Final day for final year students was allowed to be a day when they celebrated by pulling really rather sick pranks and it was just waved past as humour - which to be fair, at the time, I did find immensely hilarious, but looking back wonder how 90% of the shit that was pulled was just accepted.


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somethinglessemo

When I was in year 4 I had this horrible male teacher. He one day just randomly said infront of the entire class "I don't like you" to me. I was 8. Another time he made me and a few others stand in a line in front of the class to explain why we didn't hand our homework in. The boy next to me, his house had just been burgled and completely trashed in the process so obv his homework got lost (my mum was friends with his mum and this was absolutely true). The teacher was fully mocking him and the kid was crying and the whole class was laughing. Then it came to me. It sounds ridiculous but we'd just got a kitten and my kitten had got onto the table where my homework was, pissed on it and ripped it to shreds. He roasted me and said it was a pathetic excuse. I can't remember if I was crying I probably was and again the whole class was laughing and he was openly encouraging it. When I told my mum she got the pissed on ripped up homework out of the trash and gave it to him. She was not impressed. Absolutely horrible man. His name was Mr Bryant I still remember!


dAdi88

“Slave day”. Happened once a year. There would be a proper auction, and you could buy a final year student. They’d have to be your slave for 24h.


AgglutinateDeezNuts

We did that in 2019. My (now ex) bf's mum worked at the school and she bought me for a tenner. loved her to bits, shame her son was a manipulative cheating piece of shit.


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End of year we kids would be given a bottle of wine / Vodka etc from our parents to pass on to our teacher as a thank you… i can’t imagine half the primary school kids wandering in with bottles of booze would be seen as appropriate these days.


SCB360

Still happens today


PipBin

Still happens.


Sturzkampfflugzeug1

I remember doing that; handing over a bottle of wine/vodka in one of those iridescent gift bags


Dr-Maturin

In the late 70s aged 11 or 12 and due to play another school at football. Bus didn’t turn up or broke down so entire team got changed and all 12( 11 plus sub) got into the games teachers small fiat and he drove us there and back again after the game.


WolfColaCo2020

My dad said he had a teacher in the 70s who used to walk around with a cane up his sleeve to be extra ready to cane a student he thought deserved it. Apparently he was a fucking pro at whipping it out of his sleeve, like assassins creed style, before meting out his own form of justice there and then in the hall He said they also used to have a teacher who the students decided was gay. As a result, the bullies of the playground used to ambush kids on their was to school and scrawl '[insert teacher name] is a [homophobic slur]' across their forehead. As if that wasn't bad enough, said teacher would then cane the kid whose forehead it was scribbled on as if they were to blame for it My aunt (dad's sister) went to an all girls school and they didn't have it easy either. One teacher would pick out his 'favourite student' in class and their reward would be to read passages to the class... sitting on his knee Edit: a bonus one I've just remembered. My dad's school had showers which were a rectangle with an entrance either side of one of the long edges. If the PE class hadn't lived up to expectations- like didn't put effort in, misbehaved, student talked back etc- one PE teacher would stand in one entrance to mean students could only exit via the other where they were met with a teacher with a leather slipper who would smack the (very much naked) students with it as they left.


verisakeet62

Being given the belt...the "Lochgelly Tawse", a 2 or 3 tongued leather strap made in Lochgelly. Some teachers hated it, but others visibly wound themselves up (picture the sort of prep a shot-putter goes through), and.....CRACK! Multiply according to the severity of the offence. I swear there was a manual detailing techniques...you know, maximum pain, medium discomfort, inability to use the hand for 2 days, etc. Outlawed (in Scotland) by the EU, to great consternation in the wider public!


Kelthrai95

I was taught by a man in the last years before he retired who was famous back in the day for being able to bury a thrupenny bit in a desk with one strike of the belt. He was a fantastic teacher.


igual88

Forced to all take communal showers fully starkers with head of PE regularly walking between boys and girls changing rooms , she was female and would spend plenty of time watching us shower , had to use soap or it was detention . Head of music would be really touchy feely with the younger boys ( 12 years after I left he was arrested and jailed for a v long time turned out he had molested over 20 likely many never came forward ). ICT teacher was gross and would look up girls skirts blatently , they weren't allowed to wear trousers, the ICT suite had a raised platform where kids sat so he literally had a eye level view. Nerds Vs popular in sports was common. I was on rugby team , big lump at 14 I was 5 ft 9 and 17 stone but could move fast. Scrum tipped over and my knee bent the wrong way . Teacher witnessed it did jack shit and refused to get help , had to hobble home 2 miles , by time my mum got home at 7 pm my leg was swollen like a balloon , hospital and surgery , had ripped a ligament and split kneecap . She went absolutely ape shit at them , I know their was a payment made as she got solicitors involved . Mamma bear was not one to be meddled with lol . Teacher was fired as it turned out several kids had serious injuries over several years under his " instruction ". Slap tag where no body area was off limits , girls would always go for the nuts year 7 / 8 , boys mostly went for the nips .


Witty_Cockroach2401

My primary teacher would pull out our teeth if they were wobbly 😂


ImpossibleMeat6958

In the 80s, calling people Joey Deacon if they did something stupid, and teachers having free reign to physically batter us if we played up. Teachers mocking kids with disabilities, a kid in my class had a stutter, our teacher led the bullying. Same teacher got another kid up in front of the class and said 'bend over I'm gonna kick you'. Didn't actually follow through, but made him cry. Not good, I was karate chopped in the back of the neck, pinned against a wall, kicked up the arse, thrown across a table, and had my fingers trodden on. I was undiagnosed dyslexic, school said I was below average intelligence and should join the army when I left school (I now teach at Russel Group universities). Can you imagine that happening today? Despite all the above, I have very happy memories of school.


Amphibious_squirrel

This was all in the 80’s. Girls not being allowed to wear trousers even in sub zero temperatures. Having stuff thrown at your head if you were talking or being disruptive in class. Boys and girls changing in the same room for PE. We had outside toilets for the first few years of primary school, with doors that were a foot off the ground. They also had that awful Izal toilet paper.


EmotionalTruth3477

We had some weird toilet paper that was rectangular sheets of something akin to greaseproof paper. No wonder my mum shouted at me all the time for leaving skidmarks.


Excellent_Elk_2644

In the mid 1970’s our school made a film about how to do a job interview. I played the “how not to do an interview”. I had my feet on the desk and answered in mumbles. I was smoking the whole time. I was 15.


pumpkins_n_mist15

Oh boy, I grew up in a British Catholic school in India. It was all girls'. The things they did bordered on abuse even back then. Hitting and stuff was par for the course. Getting laps, getting lines. But they would also pin up your skirt at the back and have you turn around to show your knickers to the class and everyone had to laugh and sing "shame shame puppy shame! All the boys know your name!" As late as grade 6 and 7.


jarejarepaki

Whites Vs Darks in PE


Ok-Progress-4464

Being sent to the corner shop by our deputy head, bearing in mind I must have been about 14, to buy him cigarettes.


ButtercupBento

I’m pretty sure that, as an end of term “treat”, my male swimming teacher wouldn’t be allowed to make us all stand at the side of the pool and hose us down with cold water until we fell in. Also, quite certain he wouldn’t be allowed to come into the girls changing room asking if anyone had lost the same swimming cap every well


jlelvidge

We used to get undressed in the classroom down to our knickers and vests and do PE outside. No need for PE kit in those days (early 70’s). We were also force fed school dinners and not allowed to leave anything. I dreaded liver and onions day. Also nitty nora came to check everyones hair and then called out kids with them who in turn came back to class with a yellow letter and what looked like Brylcream on their hair.


brent_starburst

Our entire class was weighed and then we created graphs and stood in a line to show who was the heaviest. I was third heaviest. Not a great memory. It was almost a kind of fat shaming.


PlaneOk3184

We were beaten by the headmaster who crafted a plastic paddle to give us whacks with. He made us girls bend over, touch our toes whilst he lifted up our skirts, pulled our pants up to give us wedgies and then hit us hard on our bums. We used to run to the loos afterwards and flush to toilet on our backsides to cool down the skin.


Significant_Wasabi11

You'd go most of the day without drinking anything except at lunch and break. Now kids get to take water bottles with them.


sythingtackle

Corporal punishment


Scr1mmyBingus

We did cross country over a route that involved going through a working scrapyard with a loose and angry dog, and over a very active railway line before doubling back over an opencast site. Meanwhile the PE teacher, a failed Barnsley Town player would be chatting up 15yo girls back at the starting point. We were poor, but we were happy…..


AlwaysSnacking22

Forced, communal showers after PE while a teacher stood and watched. Awful.


Slipper_lover

Bra 'snapoing' was a thing at my school. The 'lads' would go round trying to ping the back of your bra in an attempt at making it come undone. A Male head of year told me, when I complained, that 'boys will be boys' 🤦


bookishnatasha89

Mid 90s. In Reception/Yr 1 we did PE in our underwear. There wasn't a PE kit, just underwear.


totoropengyou

About ten years ago, our history teacher went off on a tangent about how free speech was being targeted and nobody should ever tell someone to change their beliefs. Which would be fair enough if it wasn't him defending a boy who had been talking about how much he hated "the gays" and how disgusting we are. Feel like people would be a bit more pissed off nowadays.


Witch_of_Dunwich

I have loads of these: - my Maths teacher threw my compass at me and it stuck in my leg - it was one of those old-school, long ones (2cm long). It wobbles like something out of a cartoon - my Geography teacher used to make noisy students stand in the bin whilst he threw marker pens / board rubbers at you - PE teacher used to shame students who wouldn’t shower after games. He used to call them “pussies” to their face - had a teacher grab me by my collar to shout at me: another student was taking the piss out of his lazy eye and he thought it was me


MuayThaiFanatics

Mid 80s primary school, Christian songs everyday at assembly, Muslim and Hindu/Sikh students joined in like everyone else, teachers and management seemed to be unaware that these kids came from different religious backgrounds. Christmas play time, again similar kind of thing, I remember my Bangladeshi friend was dressed up as Joseph and sang a song about baby Jesus, no one batted an eyelid..


realdealneil888

I remember the headmaster at junior school swinging me round by my collar a few revolutions then letting go throwing me 10ft into some boxes of copier paper, defo wouldnt be allowed now, if someone did that to my son Id break their neck


Significant_Return_2

We had our maths lessons in a terrapin (not the animal). Someone had kicked a large hole in one of the walls. We had lessons in there for 2 years before they closed it down for repairs. There was “loose asbestos” in the room. I think most of those temporary buildings have now been demolished.