crap day but you gotta laugh

[Bob696]

Get up, get showered, get into 'daisy', turn key and all I get is clicks. Turn off ignition to roll a cig and calm down to have a think and the damned alarm arms itself and goes off. Turn ignition back on and she starts first turn of the key this time. All is now honkey dory except for the niggle in the back of my mind that something isnt right.

Drive 2 miles down the road (A4123) and the traffic is stopped!!!! Only movement is from traffic in the right hand lane doing U turns. I turn right at the gap rather than do a u turn as I know the estate. Pull over to make a phone call to let the school know I am going to be late so they can get a cover teacher in to take care of my form. I had forgoten to pick the phone up. I ended up getting to school 1 minute before the bell having covered 12 miles (I normaly only have to do 6) which had taken me 70 mins instead of the normal 15-20 mins to do 6. OK so I am rushed and flustered and hadnt had my morning coffee and I find out I have got a cover lesson to do period 1 which is a really badly behaved group of year 9s. Hard work that one. Period 2, year 10s, I get threatened twice by the same lad. Once he threatens me that his dad will pay me a visit  :roll:  the second time he is going to make a complaint because he said I had said to him "I will rip your f****ing head off". My crime for this was stopping him from looking at pornographic websites when he was supposed to be doing coursework. Oh well, such is life.
Apart from having to console a distraute 55 year old female teacher who was in floods of tears because of the treatment she got from a class of year 8s the rest of the day went well. until home time.

Returning on the A4123 (which has reopened) I am tootling along at 40mph, traffic lights had just turned to green in front of me so there was no need to slow down as they wernt going to change any time soon and suddenly there is a police car in front of me turning right into my lane (to go the same direction as me if u catch my drift). No lights, no siren and he was going way too fast (well I assum he over cooked it has he was heading towards me sideways). I still do not know how I missed him (or him me). At this point he decided to put his blues and 2s on (bit late thinks I) and shot off into the distance. Round the next corner he is waiting at a set of red lights.
Next island is nearly impassable due to police cars and men in black all over the place.  Finaly got home and cracked open a beer and boy does it taste good.

[hobbit]

Hey I had more fun and felt safer doing riot control in Belfast back in the seventies, at least we had batons flak jackets, baton guns and rifles

[MuddyMary]

What a day  :roll:  Glad you survived it. Take my hat off to any teachers of secondary children  :shock:

[Bob696]

we had batons flak jackets, baton guns and rifles

Got any surplus????

Mary ... its not all bad and I probably make it sound worse than it is (teachers allways whinge dont forget  :lol: ) A lot of the kids are genuinly nice but some are real nasty peices of work ... a lot like the adults they will grow up into.

[Bush Tucker Man]

At least if we get the idiots (aggresive/drunk or otherwise) we Can get them removed either by Security or the Police.
If they persist in returning they are banned from the grounds unless requiring emergency treatment (as seen fit by us)

Big 4-cell 'Mag-Lites' under the counter help as well :D  
I was only joking about that. Honest! (sadly)

[Duncan Brown]

Poor you

You want to do what we did, jack it all in and move to the Isle of Skye. The kids up here are a different breed of aminmal entirely. Polite, chatty, with a minimum of swearing, and if you still get stressed out theres always the whisky.

Sounds like you need a holiday, a nice spot of B&B in Scotland should see you right. Strangley enough we just happen to run a B&B. Drop us a line if you'd like to get a bit of clean mountain air, no traffic queues (except behind caravans), and plenty of the aforementioned whisky.

Chin up don't let the bug*****s get you down

[TULL]

Kid , i teach primary now and again for supply, would not have patience for the big-uns.

[Andy the Landy]

They would have to bring back the birch and corporal punishment before I would even consider teaching - its bad enough yelling at them on the microphone on a coach for a couple of hours let alone a full shift, I applaud you Bob for the career you do =D>

[Wanderer]

When I was a lad.....


The board rubber bouncing off the top of your napper was enough to quieten you down.
We also had teachers that would walk into a class and make an issue of laying out a thrre tongued strap on the front of their desk.

Nobody messed them about and if they did the deterent was used.
Scottish schools tended to be a lot stricter. Having attended scholls in England and Scotland.

There's always been unruly kids (to a degree) it's just they are worse and any forms of punishment are ineffective.

Kids are brought up to think they can do no wrong and that if they do no one will be able to do anything about it.

Ed

[Bob696]

well thanks guys .. I really do feel much better now. Of course , as well as your kind comments, 8 cans of John Smiths helps  :lol:  

I actualy enjoy the work more than I have ever enjoyed any of my prvious careers (chef, merchent navy , archeologist, electronics engineer and multimedia design self employed thingy). Its the good kids that make it worth wile, the Year 11 kids that walk upto you in the street and grab your hand and say "thank you". I think this is the John Smiths talking  :roll: I will be snivling soon  :oops:

Duncan ... funny you should mention the isle of skye ... we should be camping there about tuesday 26th as part of our grand tour of scotland ... fancy getting a bit sqwiffy ???  :twisted:  Cant in all honesty go for the B&B as we have spent so much time getting the camper ready for the holiday but not averse to being introduced to the local brew  :lol:  and if you know a good campsite....

[Range Rover Blues]

I have a mte (not the one with the fancy sports cars) who teaches all those sports you wish you could do.  These days there's no money to teach kids to kayak or winsurf so he's working for this program, well I call them joyriders.  It appears there is the money to send the theiving little t**ts on outdoor persuits courses as it's cheaper than dealing with them after they commit the crime.

I said they need 2 years national service
Guy says that it now costs £100k per head for all the basic training, rifle etc

Why do they need a gun? if it moves, salute it, if it doesn't whitewash it and remember the shiny end of the peeler goes on the potatos.

A bl**dy good kick up the a**e is well overdue to some buttocks me thinks.

[Bush Tucker Man]

The only problem with restarting a national Service/'Boot Camp is that we'll end up with a load of super-fit scrotes.
Wouldn't it be better to send them to 'Fat-Camp' so they're too big to climb through brokenwindows or run away)

Counter-pointing that;
I know it was (undoubtledly) played up for the cameras, but the 'tough lads' in 'Bad Boys Army' didn't seem to cope too well with the discipline.
Sadly I don't think they got locked up though by the MP's (for attacking the RSM)
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[Duncan Brown]

Hi

Well if you really must endure the hardships of camping, there is a very nice campsite within easy staggering distance from us. Its called the Tovaig Campsite. Its on the A855 about a mile and a bit north of Portree. We are the first turning on the left past the campsite and the first house on the right. Tel 01478 612397, Would love to share a glass or two with you.

If your off to the LR show at Billing, look up Vincent, he stayed there last year. You can't miss him he's a tall Dutch Fella, drives a Landrover 110  :lol: