I wonder how many from Tunstall end up in Ward Jackson park pond

I don't think they do that anymore.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It is tradition

I'm hearing that they all buy the teachers a present now at the end of year, is that right??

You said she'd packed in shoplifting??

I fell into Ward Jackson pond once...jam jar fishing with my friend Susan. Stretched out for a particularly attractive tadpole and the next I knew I was under water. It was the longest moment of my life. ....down...down....down for hours and fronds gently weaving about on every side.

That would explain a lot........

My Gran fell in too many years ago.

Well, it was very embarrassing, squelching and dripping all the way home and everyone looking at me.
I asked Susan if perhaps it looked as though I'd just washed my hair, but she seemed to feel that wasn't a mistake anyone would make

Mrs elvis is a teacher.. where mate

i can honestly say i would never of bought any of my teachers a present i hated school and no matter how bad a day im having i never wish i was back. one w@nker teacher in particular called Mr Lethbridge now a county councillor i believe if i ever saw him again i'd slap him daft.

education system not everyone are academcially minded but are clever with there hands so its about time they started kids off in apprenticeships at school. i know BTECs etc are done in schools now, but surely a kid knows if they wanna be a joiner etc at school so let em start training at school. rant over sorry for diversing off topic

Poor you mate, get out tonight and drown your sorrows. There are plenty more fish and all that

We used to have a teacher who was, lets say, a bit overweight and had a bit of a body odour problem, one year someone left a tin of deodorant and a slimfast milkshake on their desk

That's the only present I remember them getting

one of our teachers Mr Bewick teached RE he told us he used to put urine in his new shoes to soften the leather or some bullshlt.

two other things he used to do the dirty b@stad were picking his nose and eating it (he was in his 50-60s), he also used to confiscate your sweets and never gave you them back

sweets are sweets right i pinch the bairns now

Mrs. Branfoot?

How did you guess that then Mr B

my kids do, the daft gets....hang on! I pay for em ultimately which makes me an even dafter get ..... GRR!

We used to call her Sweaty Betty!!!

LOL, I remember her too! Sweaty minger

The thing is tho Tim the construction Industry suffers from a SKILLS shortage not a LABOUR shortage, there are thousands of young people wanting to come into the industry but they do not have the academic ability to progress to the required levels. Its not just about being practical, kids have to be able to read write and do maths etc, For instance if you were having a kitchen fitted and the fitter fooked up your expensive worktop because he or she couldn't measure accurately would you be ok with it coz the mitres were neat?

If kids are good with their hands give the fookers glove puppets, or better still don't let them loose on the world until they can have a basic grasp of english and maths. I am not saying I am against joinery etc being delivered in schools because I am in favour of it, but don't kid them that they will make joiners etc simply because they are good with their hands.

Thats not fair on them, make them understand how important academic studies are and we might get somewhere.

My rant over

my point was to integrate the first 2 yrs of there apprenticeship within the school whilst still doing there academic studies. if they kid then leave school at 16 or soon to be 18 then at least theyve got a footing to start with an employer and do there last year or two whatever it may be.

trouble is theres two many people trained in a trade that got paid off when there apprenticeship was over and didnt have the balls to go on site etc and push themselves. mostly due to wank firms that wont pay kids wages and its made even worse now when a young person gets to 18 as the employer has to pay them minimum wage, do they mmm not many.

Think the school system at present is hopelessly muddled and it's getting worse....indicated by all the bunking off, opting out, behavioural problems etc. Kids don't do/have any of these things if they're given interesting or worthwhile things to do, or things they can see the point of.
Education is full of people with bizarre theories or targets, always sure they're right, often ruining kids lives in the process. I'd guess everyone has at least one strong point or interest which could be developed by the right schooling, and also that with the right schooling most people could learn to read, write and do sums