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[basiltherat]

Over the years in this business I have been fortunate on several occasions to witness some pretty awful classroom behaviour on the part of teachers, either just by chance or while sitting in and observing. I recall 2 incidents in particular which I thought were pretty gross:

1. In Indonesia 20 odd years ago, a teacher who consistently rubbed his crotch while drilling (mmmm) a class of female high school students.

2. Again in Indonesia. A guy who I was observing with the aim of employing him was asked what the meaning of constitution was by one of his advanced students. He replied "How the f*** should I know ? Now get on and finish that reading exercise while I finish reading Newsweek !" Obviously he didnt get a job.

Does anyone have any other gross experiences ? Just interested.
basil

[Eijse]

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[ls650]

When I saw the subject title, I thought "Gosh, maybe they mean things like me making silly fart jokes in class..."

Your stories have me beat.

[denise]

Can we expand this to include bad behavior in the staff room?

How about a teacher and a DoS having a hissyfit/fight? The same teacher hitting, kicking, shoving random pieces of office equipment in a temper tantrum?

This teacher was rumored to have been attempting to score with the students, and the DoS apparently wanted to get into the pants of anything that moved, but I never actually witnessed any such practices. I did have to work my way out of a couple of uncomfortable dinner invitations from the DoS, though.

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[cimarch]

I was called in to help translate an e-mail from a guy who was applying for a job. Seems he'd asked whether the school had a uniform or not. Thinking he meant for the teachers they gave him the usual reply, suits for full-timers, smart casual etc. for part-timers. The e-mail they couldn't figure out was his reply. It was full of questions about the GIRL'S uniforms (at a Primary school!). I won't go into it but it was pretty disgusting, he even asked for sample photos...

One teacher we had was amazed that they wanted her to do anything in class, "Don't they have Chinese people for that?". She sat in a corner and smoked for the whole lesson, refusing to do anything else. They still kept her on for a week. (sigh)

Another teacher must have been channeling some 1950's English comedian, anytime he was asked a question by a student he pulled back the corners of his eyes, stuck out his front teeth and repeated the question in that 'oh so funny' Chinese voice they all seemed to do (Me so solly and so on). Scared the bejeaysus out of the kids.

The guy who though he had a God-given right to touch anything female because he was "only being friendly".

And then there was Freak Boy. Clocked up more parent complaints in one afternoon than anyone else. Came and applied for the job looking smart and business-like. I saw him go in and thought, "oh-oh, he's after my job". Arrived for his first class. Hung over. With about 6 facial piercings he hadn't had in on the interview day (dunno what they thought the holes were for). And pink spiked hair.

Note that these were in three seperate schools while I was working freelance, can you imagine them all together? And I've only been here a year and a half...

[khmerhit]

I'm trying to forget ...

OK-just one. Bart the Tart, now serving time for child molestation in Cambodia (doubtless a bogus or trumped-up conviction, but they got the right man if you see what I mean): he was said to have lost the plot during a lesson and veered off into writing weird stuff on the whiteboard about his various predilections. The kids told their parents, who told the school managers. Unfortunately for Cambodia, there was such a shortage of FTs in the mid 90s that Bart the Tart soon found another job. He was working for a childrens NGO when he got arrested.

thats enuff--i really am trying to forget.

Unless you want to hear about the quiet DoS who had an eye for the boys, who didnt escape a thrashing or two from a colleague of mine, or the directors of the Australian Centre for Education who regularly held gay orgies at the beach and were protected by the Australian Ambassador, John Holloway, himself up on pedophile charges and now a consultant to the Cambodian govt., or the the time...

you see what I mean. i'd rather forget it.

[foster]

During my internship, my supervising teacher would sit at the back of the class and 'dig for gold'. My student would see it, start laughing, which made me mad and I gave then heck. When he left the room, they apologized to me for laughing and told me WHY they were laughing.

He also used to rub himself up against the desks of students (male/female) and had his hands in his pockets A LOT.

My social studies teacher in High School didn't change his shirt for 5 weeks....we counted.

[Roger]

Actually, I have never met any such monster types of teachers throughout my life, certainly not of late.
But I do remember my teachers had various characteristics.
One was extremely popular with us for his maths elssons in which he staged competitions between us. I have to add that he deserved special respect - he was blind! And he taught us physics too.
But one year after I left that school, I heard he was being investigated for lewd acts and language...
Another teacher of mine was a rather stern disciplinarian. Once she remarked that kids with congenital problems such as my myopia should be legally barred from having children because they often end up becoming a burden to society!
But I can't say she treated us in any way unfairly.

[scot47]

"Once she remarked that kids with congenital problems such as my myopia should be legally barred from having children because they often end up becoming a burden to society!"

Eugenics. What is wrong with that ? It has gone out of fashion but was at one time widely accepted. There are lots of countries where couples have to have genetic tests before they can marry.