5 responses to “Back to School”

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   william

   11/09/2011

   I note your reference to “in straight lines ” when you were at Bearsden PS.
   Were you not taught about tautologies in these former days, when education would have been more content based than you would have found on your recent visit?

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   Kelvin Holdsworth

   11/09/2011

   Er, yes I was and no, it isn’t.

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   PamB

   11/09/2011

   Ah yes, the staffroom etiquette. I’ve done the cup thing, the chair thing, and, possibly worst faux-pas of all, the crossword thing in my time. Nowadays there are no staff rooms, just bases, a whole new minefield of unwelcoming stares.

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   Jaye Richards-Hill

   11/09/2011

   Sorry to hear about the torrid time in P7 you had with the belting teacher…as a teacher myself, I’m not in favour of such tactics. I find a cold silent stare always used to work better than any cane or belt…such activities should be reserved for consenting adults only ;-/

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      kelvin

      11/09/2011

      Thanks Jaye.

      The same teacher spent a quarter of each day on religious instruction and was, as I said, quite mad.

      One one occasion I was belted for humming. On another, simply, I suspect for being me.

      There are probably those reading this who have some sympathy with her.

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