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Its all true! And let me tell you something else. My second youngest daughter came home and told me that "Einstein" invented the light bulb. So I set the record straight and left it at that.

The next day I went in to the school to see the said teacher. I asked him what the
"Einstein" thing was about and he said (QUOTE) I got my "Einstein" mixed up with my "EDISON" so jokingly I said " Lets hope you don't get your wife's minge mixed up with her anus!"

The nob gobbler took me to court (only because I made him go from 6 foot 2 to 2 foot 6 with a few words in front of his peers and mentors) anyway, the case lasted all of 45 seconds. But the best thing about all this was,the case was thrown out and the judge told him in front of everybody, peers included, that it was "EDISON" NOT "Einstein" that invented the light bulb. How I laughed!

He now gives me a wide birth at the school. Just goes to show you that those Teachers aint always right. 80% of teachers are a bunch of DICKS!!.

Quote: Nigel Ball @ March 13 2013, 4:50 PM GMT

Its all true! And let me tell you something else. My second youngest daughter came home and told me that "Einstein" invented the light bulb. So I set the record straight and left it at that.

The next day I went in to the school to see the said teacher. I asked him what the
"Einstein" thing was about and he said (QUOTE) I got my "Einstein" mixed up with my "EDISON" so jokingly I said " Lets hope you don't get your wife's minge mixed up with her anus!"

The nob gobbler took me to court (only because I made him go from 6 foot 2 to 2 foot 6 with a few words in front of his peers and mentors) anyway, the case lasted all of 45 seconds. But the best thing about all this was,the case was thrown out and the judge told him in front of everybody, peers included, that it was "EDISON" NOT "Einstein" that invented the light bulb. How I laughed!

He now gives me a wide birth at the school. Just goes to show you that those Teachers aint always right. 80% of teachers are a bunch of DICKS!!.

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I feel a bit sorry for your kids, at school, to be honest!

Quote: Nigel Ball @ March 13 2013, 4:50 PM GMT

Its all true! And let me tell you something else. My second youngest daughter came home and told me that "Einstein" invented the light bulb. So I set the record straight and left it at that.

The next day I went in to the school to see the said teacher. I asked him what the
"Einstein" thing was about and he said (QUOTE) I got my "Einstein" mixed up with my "EDISON" so jokingly I said " Lets hope you don't get your wife's minge mixed up with her anus!"

The nob gobbler took me to court (only because I made him go from 6 foot 2 to 2 foot 6 with a few words in front of his peers and mentors) anyway, the case lasted all of 45 seconds. But the best thing about all this was,the case was thrown out and the judge told him in front of everybody, peers included, that it was "EDISON" NOT "Einstein" that invented the light bulb. How I laughed!

He now gives me a wide birth at the school. Just goes to show you that those Teachers aint always right. 80% of teachers are a bunch of DICKS!!.

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Parents evening must be an absolute riot, As Woody Allen said, those who can't, teach, those who can't teach, teach PE

The amount of shite the kids come home talking is astonishing - part of it is kids misunderstanding what their teachers say, but way too much of it is moronic teachers. One teacher told them that the 1066 Norman invasion was to convert the pagans in England to Christianity. Another time they came home with a worksheet about Romans which included a section of words derived fom Latin - except that none of them were. The teacher had obviously translated the fact sheet from French to English (it's a bilingual school) without it occurring to them that the English words had germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. Another time I had to dispel the nonsense that the English Civil War led to Magna Carta. But teachers are always right, so I must have it wrong, the kids think. Teachers should have the intellectual confidence to say "I don't know, I'll look it up." rather than spew out whatever nonsense they come up with.

My kids get taught maths in a way which seems bonkers to me, but they are understanding things like percentages a lot earlier than kids did in my day. So perhaps it works.

The lack of importance put on history as a subject really annoys me, I blame Blair and new Labour who had no interest in the subject and sidelined it, funnily enough Thatcher was a great advocate of teaching history in schools. Kenneth Baker was keen for it to be seen as a core subject, Probably the only time in my life that actually agreed with a Conservative policy. It also amazes me that they place such importance on sport, my daughter dreads PE day, I mean isn't meant to be fun, not some kind of hell. If its not meant to be fun why do it, it serves no purpose educationally if it is not enjoyable, PE teachers always seem to be sadists, and normally their second subject was geography which they used to teach in their tracksuits, total tossers all.

It is always geography and PE, isn't it? We always called the Geog department the PE department at school.

PE is so poorly taught. It isn't enough exercise to be really beneficial to anyone's health, so surely the idea is to instil a culture of physical activity in children so that they can continue sport into adult life, but it fails so miserably at that. The kids who are good at sport and would be doing it anyway don't get anything out of it, the kids who aren't good at sport have a weekly torture and humiliation session that puts them off sport for life.

Quote: Harridan @ March 13 2013, 9:07 PM GMT

It is always geography and PE, isn't it? We always called the Geog department the PE department at school.

PE is so poorly taught. It isn't enough exercise to be really beneficial to anyone's health, so surely the idea is to instil a culture of physical activity in children so that they can continue sport into adult life, but it fails so miserably at that. The kids who are good at sport and would be doing it anyway don't get anything out of it, the kids who aren't good at sport have a weekly torture and humiliation session that puts them off sport for life.

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Humiliation does seem to be the point of the exercise, a kind of legalized bullying. Mind you the PE teachers of today seem like teddy bears to the shell shocked nutters that used to torture us, there was a Mr Cochrane who used to give you a Chinese burn if you missed a penalty, and yank on your forelock as he walked passed you for no discernible reason. Oh what halcyon days they were >_<

Geography and PE? That's weird. I've never heard of that in Scotland. Geography teachers do a degree at university. PE teachers tended to do PE at a techer training college, though they're beginning to be absorbed by universities.

Quote: keewik @ March 13 2013, 9:16 PM GMT

Geography and PE? That's weird. I've never heard of that in Scotland. Geography teachers do a degree at university. PE teachers tended to do PE at a techer training college, though they're beginning to be absorbed by universities.

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It did seem the pattern when I was a kid. Maybe things of changed, to be honest the way schools now operate and what there priorities amazes me, it seems to be box ticking and very regimented, no room for individual problems and personal cases. I was driving over a bridge recently when I saw a girl standing near the edge about to jump, Me and another driver stopped and managed to stop her until the Police came. She said she was being bullied at school and had recently lost her Dad. I phoned the school to see how she was, the seemed very dismissive, I always wonder how she's getting on when I drive over that bridge

Quote: Harridan @ March 13 2013, 9:07 PM GMT

It is always geography and PE, isn't it? We always called the Geog department the PE department at school.

PE is so poorly taught.

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They weren't brilliant at geography either.

But yes, the whole approach to physical education in this country is shocking from top to bottom.

Government is more interested in boosting prestige by throwing money at winning medals than in providing cheap facilities for our overweight, wheezing populace, and the same attitude filters right down to the school playing field where all the energy is devoted to the kids who are already good at sport rather than to addressing the physical failings of the fat, puny or uncoordinated.

Quote: keewik @ March 13 2013, 9:16 PM GMT

Geography and PE? That's weird. I've never heard of that in Scotland. Geography teachers do a degree at university. PE teachers tended to do PE at a techer training college, though they're beginning to be absorbed by universities.

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No idea what it is like these days, but in my day PE teachers were expected to have a second subject; and while the real PE teachers were coaching the school team, the rest of us would be having a kickabout, nominally supervised by a teacher from another department.

It amazes me how lots of people have the arrogance to think they can do other peoples jobs better than them, and make ridiculous, sweeping, statements about an entire profession based on the one bad one of the 0.00001% of those they've met.

Everything is always somebody else's fault because fewer and fewer people seem to want to take any personal responsibility for anything ever.

I think there are a couple of reasons why we have PE, one is to try to get certain kids to actually move their bodies at all, which is the face of the rising obesity epidemic, must be a good thing; and the other is to mould kids into automatons who will obey the orders of their superiors, despite whatever hardships might be involved (often PE takes place outside in bad weather). School tends not to encourage kids to think for themselves, but instead is aimed at delivering an educated product for employers to utilise.

Quote: Pingl @ March 13 2013, 9:03 PM GMT

The lack of importance put on history as a subject really annoys me, .../

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Some history is taught as part of a subject called "Opening Minds". Despite its name, this subject doesn't seem to seek to open the pupils minds much.

Quote: Sinon @ March 13 2013, 11:31 PM GMT

It amazes me how lots of people have the arrogance to think they can do other peoples jobs better than them, and make ridiculous, sweeping, statements about an entire profession based on the one bad one of the 0.00001% of those they've met.

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Most of us do not get to meet many PE teachers so judgements have to be based on the available sample. But my beef is less with the individuals than with the system and the measurement of success.

Everything is always somebody else's fault because fewer and fewer people seem to want to take any personal responsibility for anything ever.

No disagreement there, but the purpose of education is to educate and I do not remember any PE teacher teaching me anything about my body or how to use it, which I kind of assumed was their job. All they seemed to be interested in was sorting the wheat from the chaff so that the school would have a successful team.