What would your old teachers say if they could see you now?

I was fairly invisible in school, all the reports said i was too quiet. I never managed to pass a maths exam so I guess they would be surprised that I have managed some complex financial stuff. That's if they remembered me!

The nuns would be more bothered that I got married and then divorced- the wrath of God will probably be upon me forever. They would bother more about divorce than how well I have done.

Strange to think that most of the teacher's would be dead by now.
When I looked on Friends Reunited a few years ago, I was surprised how many of the girls at my school were terrified by our (spinster) headmistress. Thinking about it though, she did keep us in line.

Don't know if I should say this, but what shocked me was the way the Jewish girls had to stand outside the assembly room all lined up during the daily service. Then we all filed past them. Seems shabby to me.

That's a shame Ana to know yourself that you could have done better . Sometimes circumstances just seem to take over and before you know it ...... Your'e here on gransnet.

Exactly, gillybob - it is what it is!

But you've run a successful business - good for you, and there's no way your former teachers would have thought you 'stupid'.

I most definitely wouldn't call it successful by any stretch of the imagination Ana . If it were successful DH would be retired instead of working 70+ hours a week .

I was a bit of a clown at school. I think it was my way of coping with being out of my depth.

Never mind, as you say, it is what it is.

Who knows? Can't remember many of my old teachers ( except the dotty ones, quite a lot of those)most of them had unpleasant things to say to all and sundry and especially to girls.I imagine a lot of them had pretty unhappy lives, mostly they were older women who hadn't married and lived in 'rooms'.

We were right: could do better, does not live up to her promise

You know what cornergran I hated maths at school . I always said no matter what I do in life it will never involve maths.

I have been doing the accounts and running the financial side of our business for several years now and I stick by my original thoughts. I still hate maths.

Relate to that: they would say same to me too

I think maybe we all remember the dotty ones roses . We had an RE teacher who for whatever reason only ever taught with the door wide open. She had some very strange ways and we all thought her a little crazy. She once picked three "gals" to take on a trip to the theatre to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, (crikey knows how but I was one of them) and we were amazed to find that she drove a red Capri. She was the most least likely person ever who should have such a car. After that I was a saint in her class and did rather well in O level RE.

They would probably say "Harumph!"

I was caught red handed writing an ode about the head and some of the teachers. I can only remember bits of it. Something about one of them sitting in her ivory tower, chewing cud and mad with power....and of a particularly rotund one, second helping are his joy, he really is a gutsy boy. Anyway, my parents were called to the school and were told that had I not been in my final year they would have considered expulsion!!!

My dad found it funny but mum was furious and I was grounded for a month.

I would probably have been forgotten. All my reports were "must try harder." "Very slow to finish in exams." I did pass the 11+. Had one report with a "D" for handwriting.
I discovered at the age of 50 I was dyslexic. The revelation that I was quite clever and not thick as I thought myself boosted my general confidence no end.

However I still have trouble writing simple notes to the milkman and birthday cards etc without messing them up.

A few teachers stand out for me Mr Blacknell our English teacher Mr Kneeshaw our geography and form teacher for a couple of years and Miss Macpherson our French teacher., all excellent teachers who were generally well liked and respected. Very unlikely for any of them to be still alive now.
Off to bed now and to try and write a coherent note to cancel tommorow's milk at my first attempt.

'No milk today, my love has gone away' ( Hermans Hermits)

Would like to think that they would say. He didnt do bad did he?

gilly I know now I could have passed the flipping exams if I hadn't been so scared of the wrath of the teachers if I got something wrong. So I didn't ask questions and got by in class by being invisible. It's a shame, but it didn't stop me succeeding at work and then finding a career I loved in my 40's. Like you I don't enjoy maths, but I can do what is needed and that's all that maters .

I'd love to show the miserable old moo that told my mum when I was still in infants that "she'll never amount to anything" that she was very wrong !

May I be so bold as to break the mould here? My teachers would say they were right all along because I did turn out to be the person they prophesied. Lots of my reports said "gives 100%, a potential leader, destined to succeed, a pleasure to teach etc. etc." - you know, all the stuff that makes others want to puke. I did become Head Girl, go to a top university, become Headteacher, run my own business. I often wonder whether it was my teachers' positive comments which propelled me upwards as underneath I really wasn't that bothered.

My Deputy Head at grammar school told me I should leave at 16, because 'You'll never go to college or university my dear '. Two years later, after a term at a highly respected teacher training college I went back with a friend who was at the same college, but had stayed on at school and done A levels, and the same woman said to me 'I always knew you'd make a teacher.'
The difference was that during my two years at tech the tutors encouraged and supported me in a way that school never had.

I had some lovely teachers as well as the dreadful Miss Elkington. The art teacher was fabulous (and dotty) despite the fact that I was awful, my history teacher who was badly disabled, told us all sorts of favinating facts that kept me interested. My English teacher encouraged a love of reading. Our PE teacher made us go to the cinema to see West Side Story, 3 times, for modern dance homework!!

Don't know if I should say this, but what shocked me was the way the Jewish girls had to stand outside the assembly room all lined up during the daily service. Then we all filed past them. Seems shabby to me.

Perhaps the parents of the Jewish girls didn't want them to go to the daily service since it wouldn't be a Jewish one. I think parents have been able to opt their kids out of religious devotions in schools for a long time.

And they would have been standing outside so that (a) someone knew where they all were and they didn't get up to mischief, and (b) so that they could come into the assembly hall for announcements that concerned everybody.

Not shabby if you look at it like that, just practical.

My domestic science teacher told me my family wouldn't survive unless there was a fish & chip shop on the corner of the Road I wish she knew I went on to run my own catering business and was employed by the Council to arrange their catering at their Council meeting.Thanks for the encouragement I must say Mrs Jones.

Sometimes a teacher saying something negative is what spurs a kid on — to prove the teacher wrong. Contrasuggestiblity is very common in kids.

The Jewish children stood outside the hall at our school and just came in for 'notices'!