What slang do you remember school teachers using?

Certainly none. They were mostly unmarried very respectable women who spoke totally correctly and corrected their pupils if they misused the English language.

None whatsoever, although we were always told we had brains like sieves.

Same as sago and charleygirl. I don’t think our nuns would have known any slang. Half of them were French anyway.

My teachers didn’t use slang.

Grammar school pupil here, no slang.

Greenfinch

What a very strange question. Would anyone be remotely interested in this topic?

No they would not.

What a very strange question. Would anyone be remotely interested in this topic?

Harris27

Crettons.

Cretins is not exactly slang.but highly offensive and inappropriate.
I think they’d be sacked for that now.

A cretin is an offensive term for someone regarded as stupid, foolish, or boorish. The word derives from the French crétin and was originally a medical term for people affected by congenital hypothyroidism, a condition that caused severe physical stunting and intellectual disability

None

My teacher called me a tart and a gypsy for getting my ears pierced, which was against school rules.

Imagine that now!

None.

None.

Crettons.

No slang from Sister Paula 😂

No slang from my grammar school teachers. They wouldn't even let us use the word 'nice' in essays.

I dont know about slang, but my form teacher throughout secondary school was big on plays on words and insults.

The only ones I remember now are that he always referred to a classmate with the surname Ashton as Trashpan, and called people things like 'knucklehead' or 'gimmer' if they had displeased him - accompanied by a flying blackboard eraser, something done by several of our teachers back then (70s).

I know from Facebook that he was actually very popular, but at that age I perdonally didn't appreciate his form of humour one little bit.

Nevertheless, again from Facebook, I know that he was a good teacher and a lot of his former pupils really liked him, and he was certainly the only teacher in that school (apart from my French teacher!!!) to teach me any English grammar whatsoever , even though that wasnt his main subject.

Sane JanesandJon none never happened

Grammar school …absolutely none

•CrazyUSA* talk to us.
Why so many questions?

Daddima

None here either, and I still remember P3 teacher’s contempt for the words ‘get’ or ‘got’. I still try to avoid using them!

We were not allowed to use “nice” not in written essays nor in our speech!

Absolutely none!! All girls school and no slang whatsoever!

JaneJudge

I need to find my glasses as I read slang as shag 🙈

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nearly spat my drink out

I went to Grammar School in 1948.
All the teachers were definitely from the upper classes.
Some were quite ancient but young or old they came from the same mould.
They wouldn’t know what slang was if it was repeated and explained, it would have been irrelevant in their lives.

Yes like everyone else

None.

I agree with *Sago. We had to speak properly or there were consequences.