Who was your craziest / most interesting teacher

I also had a teacher who threw things at unruly children. I believe it was my first grade teacher. Seems like she was young. Maybe in her early twenties. She would grab whatever was at hand an sling it like a fast ball at any kid who acted up and she had perfect aim. If the kid did any thing rowdy after that she would tie them in a chair for an hour or so. The strange thing was other than that she was a very nice lady and could sing like an angel. I must mention it was always the same three boys who were cutting up.
 

oldpop said:
I also had a teacher who threw things at unruly children. I believe it was my first grade teacher. Seems like she was young. Maybe in her early twenties. She would grab whatever was at hand an sling it like a fast ball at any kid who acted up and she had perfect aim. If the kid did any thing rowdy after that she would tie them in a chair for an hour or so. The strange thing was other than that she was a very nice lady and could sing like an angel. I must mention it was always the same three boys who were cutting up.
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Tying school children to their chairs. How strange.
Teachers did get away with unusually punishments.
 
Bretrick said:
Tying school children to their chairs. How strange.
Teachers did get away with unusually punishments.
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Back then the principle had a paddle that looked just like (see below) for the children who misbehaved. Five wacks usually did the trick. I know because I got it for saying a curse word. It worked because after that I never said a curse word in that school again. Imagine a Principal doing that today?

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Sister Mary Philip She was a big 6 foot nun. She was the school's "enforcer". She could pick an 18 year old guy with one hand, ( both feet off the floor), and whack 'em with the other hand. She was a math/science teacher. She taught very complicated classes, but she never made you feel like a dumb kid, and she was the all wise teacher. She accepted you as an equal, and valued your opinion. I'm thankful I had her as a reacher.
 
Crazy, interesting, and most fun .... Mrs. Bradley in 1st Grade

Maybe because it was the first time I was away from home and family (sheltered life) ... and in an organized group of people that were my age!
What a concept that was.. šŸ˜ƒ
 
This was back in the early'50s. I think I was a junior in high school. Our science teacher was showing us something I don't remember the name of the metal, but it was kept under oil (kerosene) H had a small petri dish that he poured some oil into then with tongs took out this piece of metal.

He was going to show us what happens when it hits water by shaving off a small piece. He told us to go over to the other side of the room. As he had another small petri dish with very little water in it sitting there.
Well as you know all school labs had a sink at the end of the table. Somehow he let that piece of metal slip out of his tongs. It slid down the table into the sink that had about 1/8" water in it.

Well KABOOM blew out all the windows in that room. The whole school shook since it was a two-story small building. We all fell to the floor from the shock. Needless to say, that table & all the glass things with experiments in them was busted.

We got the rest of the week off. He still kept his job though.
 
Had a teacher when I was in the 4th grade who spent a lot of extra time with me about my reading disorder.
Remember this would have been the 50's, so Dyslexia wasn't widely known in my rural area.
Spent many hours after school working on the problem and things improved a little.

After that school year, she moved with her husband to a new town due to his job.

Later in High School, my English teacher noticed how long it took for me to read one sentence out loud.
After a talk, he suggested to my parents about a program being done at the local university on Dyslexia.
Long story short ( if that's possible with me ) the jest of the training was to get my mind to read a sentence
from left to right, instead of it's tendency to make me read things right to left. ( including letter reversal ).
Just something I learned to live with .

I'm grateful for those two teachers who took the extra time with me.
 
oldpop said:
Back then the principle had a paddle that looked just like (see below) for the children who misbehaved. Five wacks usually did the trick. I know because I got it for saying a curse word. It worked because after that I never said a curse word in that school again. Imagine a Principal doing that today?

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The principal took that thing out and my mom arrived at the school, heard the story (I had done nothing wrong), and blasted the principal and we got out of there. She actually told him he was "a f'ing pig". Only she used the actual word She was furious. I was surprised and delighted.
 
Feelslikefar said:
Had a teacher when I was in the 4th grade who spent a lot of extra time with me about my reading disorder.
Remember this would have been the 50's, so Dyslexia wasn't widely known in my rural area.
Spent many hours after school working on the problem and things improved a little.

After that school year, she moved with her husband to a new town due to his job.

Later in High School, my English teacher noticed how long it took for me to read one sentence out loud.
After a talk, he suggested to my parents about a program being done at the local university on Dyslexia.
Long story short ( if that's possible with me ) the jest of the training was to get my mind to read a sentence
from left to right, instead of it's tendency to make me read things right to left. ( including letter reversal ).
Just something I learned to live with .

I'm grateful for those two teachers who took the extra time with me.
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Our Son had Dyslexia in our small county school in the '70s. Teachers didn't know how to teach him, so they gave all his assignments to my wife who tried different things as he was getting all F's on his tests.

One time she was reading something from a book & Son was looking over the top, He started reading it perfectly. So she handed him the bok but had it turned upside down. He could read it just like we can with it right side up.

So she went to the school & talked with all his teachers, & they started having him read aloud out of books but he had it upside down. Same with any tests they had it upside down & he got As & B's on most of them. If they gave him a test the right way he got f's.

When he finally got to his junior year he was starting to turn the books & everything the right way to read them.
 
oldpop said:
Back then the principle had a paddle that looked just like (see below) for the children who misbehaved. Five wacks usually did the trick. I know because I got it for saying a curse word. It worked because after that I never said a curse word in that school again. Imagine a Principal doing that today?

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My 9th grade English teacher used to give me 6 cuts on each hand on Monday mornings because I would never do my homework.
 
Tom 86 said:
This was back in the early'50s. I think I was a junior in high school. Our science teacher was showing us something I don't remember the name of the metal, but it was kept under oil (kerosene) H had a small petri dish that he poured some oil into then with tongs took out this piece of metal.

He was going to show us what happens when it hits water by shaving off a small piece. He told us to go over to the other side of the room. As he had another small petri dish with very little water in it sitting there.
Well as you know all school labs had a sink at the end of the table. Somehow he let that piece of metal slip out of his tongs. It slid down the table into the sink that had about 1/8" water in it.

Well KABOOM blew out all the windows in that room. The whole school shook since it was a two-story small building. We all fell to the floor from the shock. Needless to say, that table & all the glass things with experiments in them was busted.

We got the rest of the week off. He still kept his job though.
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What an extreme reaction. I wonder what the metal was? Maybe Sodium?

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/alkali-metal-explosion-explained/8185.article​

 
Bretrick said:
What an extreme reaction. I wonder what the metal was? Maybe Sodium?

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/alkali-metal-explosion-explained/8185.article​

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It could have been sodium, Bretrick! I used to work in a chemistry stockroom in college and one of the items we had in our inventory was sodium blocks, and sometimes a grad student would need a piece. In order to cut it, they had to immerse it in oil or some liquid (not water) so it wouldn't explode when exposed to air. So not sure if it's that. I was majoring in chemistry then, but switched majors when other incidents popped up that were scary....
 
Tom 86 said:
This was back in the early'50s. I think I was a junior in high school. Our science teacher was showing us something I don't remember the name of the metal, but it was kept under oil (kerosene) H had a small petri dish that he poured some oil into then with tongs took out this piece of metal.

He was going to show us what happens when it hits water by shaving off a small piece. He told us to go over to the other side of the room. As he had another small petri dish with very little water in it sitting there.
Well as you know all school labs had a sink at the end of the table. Somehow he let that piece of metal slip out of his tongs. It slid down the table into the sink that had about 1/8" water in it.

Well KABOOM blew out all the windows in that room. The whole school shook since it was a two-story small building. We all fell to the floor from the shock. Needless to say, that table & all the glass things with experiments in them was busted.

We got the rest of the week off. He still kept his job though.
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That must have been scary stuff, Tom 86! When I was in college, I majored in chemistry, but so many things happened that I changed my mind. One of my teachers had an explosion in their chem lab and had to be hospitalized. I don't know if a part of their hand got ripped off, but never saw him again. Another time, somebody spilled mercury on the floor, and you know mercury can make you mad (the hatters were known to clean the hats with mercury and later became mad, that's why there were called the mad hatters) - so we had to be careful cleaning that up. I decided to switch to biology after witnessing too many "incidents."
 
Feelslikefar said:
Had a teacher when I was in the 4th grade who spent a lot of extra time with me about my reading disorder.
Remember this would have been the 50's, so Dyslexia wasn't widely known in my rural area.
Spent many hours after school working on the problem and things improved a little.

After that school year, she moved with her husband to a new town due to his job.

Later in High School, my English teacher noticed how long it took for me to read one sentence out loud.
After a talk, he suggested to my parents about a program being done at the local university on Dyslexia.
Long story short ( if that's possible with me ) the jest of the training was to get my mind to read a sentence
from left to right, instead of it's tendency to make me read things right to left. ( including letter reversal ).
Just something I learned to live with .

I'm grateful for those two teachers who took the extra time with me.
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I also had a teacher who gave me extra help. Though at Tech School. I struggled a Maths and he invited me to his place once a week to help me understand enough Maths to pass the end of year test.
Without his help I would not have gotten my trade papers
 
To pick one of my craziest teachers is hard because I was taught by Nuns. I remember one Nun who taught me typing jumping all around the room making Fun of me because I finished what she told me to do before she gave me the instructions. She ran around the room saying "I already did it." Making fun of me in front of the class. My favorite Teacher was Sister William Ann. She taught Biology and she was fantastic.
 

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