Jeff wrote: ......There used to be a guy that lived near Pete Wiseman, he was a teacher, he warned Anne about all the pitfalls. but she still loves it! I think he did too. But the politics got to him. Pete, I bet he was a great teacher!
He worked with kids with extreme learning needs. It drove him mad, literally. He got retired on mental health grounds, completely dropped out of the system, and went to live in a house made of drfitwood on a remote beach in Wales.
The one point he said that always stuck in my mind was "you are working with damaged children..."
good thread.
Dave, i hd a similar 1970s upbringing. Was told i was only fit for factory fodder and university was out of my reach. At 28 i buckled down and got a degree and now lecture. I never forget the class bias aimed at me in my youth and give my kids all the chances possible based on my own experience.
Dave999,after chatting with you on a drunken night at the Nats, i reckon the education sector lost a dangerously good teacher when you left
I hated School with a passion, I also learned next to nothing. I was regularly told I was thick as Mince and was always on detention for fighting. My experience with Male teachers was never good, even at School I thought they where a bunch of shirt lifting weirdo's who desided to become a teacher so they could inflict the same misery they received at School, or to perv on the Lassies. I left School when I was 15 and was told I was too stupid to do anything with my life (No joke, thats what I was told by my careers advisor) so i thought Bananarama! it, why bother??? But then I stumbled into the Oil and gas industry. 11 years later and now I'm building and installing £1million Completion Tools around the World. (Like other's on here, MoparMark etc)
Coming from being the stupidest lad in class and getting the Bananarama! ripped outta me daily to staying in 5* hotels watching the same Bananarama! stack shelves in Tesco has to be the sweetest revenge. And non of it was down to School Teachers!
MilesnMiles wrote:Dave999,after chatting with you on a drunken night at the Nats, i reckon the education sector lost a dangerously good teacher when you left
Yeah I was not surprised when he said he was a teacher once.
I bet it was tough having a name like Mr 999 though.
