Stokespireite, on 23 August 2015 - 12:02 PM, said:
I remember Hughes..... he was very intimidating to new pupils........ I remember my first ever lesson with him and one lad spoke out of turn so Hughes picked him up and tipped him upside down with his head in a waste paper bin in the corner of the room for ages...... like you say would get arrested for that today...
Most schools must have been the same as we had some real pearlers at Bolsover! (Moorfield Hall)
Mr Caning headmaster - You did want to get the wrong side of him and he ruled the school as a dictator and made a massive issue of the smallest of things. His way of thinking was that if he could come down on you hard for the slightest thing then it would help kerb major issue (didn't work though as there has always been some real nut-jobs from Bolsover, lol.
Mr Hater - Hater by name, hater my nature - smacked kids for fun. He used to grab and twist your ear really hard. I seem to recall he did something really painful with your fingers but memory fails me.
Mr Westerby (Gandhi) - Launched a kid with one almighty wack through the air and over a load of tables, then sliding off onto the floor for shouting over the classroom to my mate Joe (who was sat next to me) if he'd seen Mrs Gandhi's funeral? He asked him what he'd just said and he said it again. When Rob Sinclair picked himself up off the floor he had a perfect bright red handprint of Westerby's on the side of his face.
Harry Yelland - Worst teacher in the history of teaching (surely) - kids just used too muck around during lessons and even dance on top of their desks and he just used to put his finger to his lips and say 'shush' then get back to marking homework to free up his evenings
Mr Pearson - Had his favourites - If he liked you you were okay, if he hated you he really let you have it and tried to show you up in-front of the class - proper nasty he was.
Mr Copestake - He used to have a table tennis bat that he'd thickly chalk up with an 'X' and bend you over his desk facing the rest of the class and smash you with it, so it left you with a large cross on your backside so everybody knew you'd been been Copestaked.
Mr Toplass (or however you spelled it) - Never wired up right - fullstop, lol.
Nasty piece of work who was the boys year tutor (though can't recall his name) basically he was a bully and ruled by fear. He smashed me against a load of metal lockers and then lifted my by his fists against them because I wouldn't say what 5th formers had bunged up the sinks in the boys loo's and turned on the taps flooding the place out! I'd seen the lads come and go as I'd been thrown out of Harry Yelland's lesson, though hadn't seen all the water pouring out of the toilets as I was too busy making faces at my mates back in the lesson.
Anymore headcase teachers from Boza? I'm sure there are still plenty but struggling to think back..
I only recall one good teacher and that was Mrs Worthy (could be very strict, but you could have a laugh with her as long as you got your work done - very firm, but very fair).
Mr Tooth - I've did a job for him and his wife the last year and they are lovely and I can't imagine they were like most of the others that ran the show by fear or were just utterly useless, though I never had them for any lessons, so couldn't really comment on that, other than we had a right old chat about the teachers there and he agreed that most of them would have been struck off today, lol.
Sorry for gatecrashing a very good/funny thread (just wanted to point out that even though I didn't go to Chesterfield school, nor know any of the teachers mentioned, I can very much relate to them all).
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