Ahhh, the good old days.
Chalkboards, playing in the yard, small milks, new pencil cases and gossiping at the bin when you pared your pencil are all the golden memories of primary school.
And now, a thread is going viral about the weird and wonderful teachers we had in primary (and secondary) school. You are going to love this…
Who was your weirdest teacher? I had one in primary school who didn’t teach maths/Irish for the entire year, but made us learn off the words to Millennium by Robbie Williams and watch Space Camp.
— Fiona Hyde (@andgoseek) November 29, 2017
for half a year we had a CSPE teacher who was former Irish Defence Forces, every other class he would draw a diagram of Saddam Hussein in uniform on the blackboard and make us write down the ways in which Saddam’s military decorations were fake or incorrectly worn.
— Michael Healy (@MichaelHealyUgh) November 29, 2017
in 6th year my French teacher accepted a bribe of 2 euro per student not to give us homework on a bank holiday weekend. Made about 60 quid
— Shane Flynn (@ShaaneFlynn) November 29, 2017
Art teacher who, at the end of ART class, pulled down the blinds and projected a slideshow of graphic photos showing the effects of a range of STDs on the wall. She then proceeded to yell ‘ABSTINENCE GIRLS!’ down the corridor as we legged it out of class. #CatholicGirlsSchoolLols
— Gráinne Pollak (@GraPollak) November 29, 2017
And one extremely shy man who taught computers and once fell backwards into a large cardboard box and just stayed there silently for at least 15 mins.
— EmerTheScreamer (@EmerTheScreamer) November 29, 2017
French teacher in fifth year used to pop out to the post office during class and ask us not to tell on her.
— seriously hilary (@seriouslyhilary) November 29, 2017
Our primary headteacher brought a real crossbow in when my sister was in 5th class. He accidentally shot it off inside and it went clear across the class and hit the back wall. He then took it outside to be ‘safer’-shot it in the air so kids had to run around
— Doireann Larkin (@DoireannLarkin) November 29, 2017
5th/6th Class teacher (principal) used to get me to take staff lunch orders and go down to the shop every day. Also often sent me to my grandfathers (a carpenter) to wait outside for him to come home for lunch and ask him to come to the school to fix something.
— Darren Daly (@darrendaly153) November 29, 2017
I had a design tech teacher who had a prosthetic hand. Whenever he taught us how to use any machine he’d tell us he lost his hand in it (he can’t have lost his hand in EVERY machine) & sometimes he’d take his hand off and leave it places, just to scare us. It worked.
— Alice Ralph (@alicaurusrex) November 29, 2017
I had a substitute teacher in fifth class who sprayed Lynx Africa whenever anybody farted and read us a bit of The Diary Of Anne Frank every day
— November Alan (@alan_maguire) November 29, 2017
We are crying here… these memories are gas. Only in Ireland.
