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[Doctor Gollum]

Smoking ban has been one of least thought through law changes in recent times.

Fixed

[Sir Tigger KC]

Smoking ban has been one of best law changes in recent times.

Teachers used to smoke with a class full of kids when I was young.

My old Doctor would sometimes have  'a fag on the go' if you made a visit.

Times change.

Yes, indeed, and one of my teachers was also often drunk and used to throw books at the children who got things wrong, like with me once!

Different days, different ways eh Opti

We had one like that but he used to chuck the board rubber around! 

He also used to get some of his favourite boys to visit him at his home!    He was found dead in his flat a few years ago, apparently committed suicide. 

[Steve B]

Smoking ban has been one of best law changes in recent times.

Teachers used to smoke with a class full of kids when I was young.

My old Doctor would sometimes have  'a fag on the go' if you made a visit.

Times change.

Yes, indeed, and one of my teachers was also often drunk and used to throw books at the children who got things wrong, like with me once!

Different days, different ways eh Opti

We had one like that but he used to chuck the board rubber around! 

He also used to get some of his favourite boys to visit him at his home!    He was found dead in his flat a few years ago, apparently committed suicide. 

When i was in the last year of school a teacher called mr collar chucked the blackboard rubber at my mate (for talking) who was sat next to me...It hit him on the chest....My mate than picked the desk up and chucked it at him..said F you and walked out of the class...Nothing ever happened about it...it was forgot.. 

[TD]

Smoking ban has been one of best law changes in recent times.

Teachers used to smoke with a class full of kids when I was young.

My old Doctor would sometimes have  'a fag on the go' if you made a visit.

Times change.

I can remember visiting my doctor many years ago, complaining that I couldn't sleep and asking him for some sleeping tablets...

His advice in a room thick with smoke as he had a ciggie on the go, was have a few drinks before you go to bed...far better than tablets 

[TheBoy]

Smoking ban has been one of best law changes in recent times.

I actually disagree, even though I'm not a smoker.

Its a dangerous slippery slope, and we've already got too far down to return.

[ronnyd]

Smoking ban has been one of best law changes in recent times.

Teachers used to smoke with a class full of kids when I was young.

My old Doctor would sometimes have  'a fag on the go' if you made a visit.

Times change.

Remember our old form master used to light up, open the classroom door and say wait. Did a small countdown and the end of lesson bell rang. There ya go he said, works every time. He was a very popular teacher with a wicked sense of humour.

[Doctor Gollum]

Agreed, ill-conceived, poorly executed and actually quite negative, hence my edit...

Smoking ban has been one of least thought through law changes in recent times.

Fixed

Also as a non smoker 

[Lazydocker]

Smoking ban has been one of best law changes in recent times.

Teachers used to smoke with a class full of kids when I was young.

My old Doctor would sometimes have  'a fag on the go' if you made a visit.

Times change.

Yes, indeed, and one of my teachers was also often drunk and used to throw books at the children who got things wrong, like with me once!

Different days, different ways eh Opti

I had one who was a very good shot with a bit of chalk. He ran out one lesson so asked for it back, which you can imagine was the wrong thing to say!

[Tony H]

When at school many years ago we had a science teacher who you could tell was "on the edge" when he felt his class was being disrupted his face would go red he would grit his teeth,shake and then hurl a half kilo weight with some force from his balance scales that sat on his desk towards the perpetrator of the class disruption , it was thought amusing by the class and the time but with hind site and age if had hit someone on the head the results could have been fatal I believe shortly after I left school he had a  breakdown and retired from teaching 

[TheBoy]

I recall my history teacher - a chalk thrower to anyone talking in his lesson - threw an old fashioned board rubber to one of the lads right at the back, who was swinging on his chair chatting to lad next to me. Perfect shot, right on the bonce, knocked his clear off the chair, causing his to bang his head on the wall. Its unclear what caused him to lose consciousness, but the ambulance paramedics took him away for the rest of the day

I'm guessing nowadays, there would be a claim.

Nobody else dared open their mouth for that lesson, so the deterrent worked

[TheBoy]

As an aside, I remember our Scottish chemistry teacher, lets call her Miss G to protect the innocent.  One lesson we'd been misbehaving like 15yr old boys do, and she when into a proper rant, something along the lines of "You lot think you're hard? My last school in Liverpool, they were hard. They hit the staff, they burnt down the classrooms, but at least they had respect". The last bit caused me to properly laugh loudly, at which point she burst into tears.

She didn't last long

[Rods2]

Our woodwork teacher always used to walk around with a 2' steel rule, which was firmly applied to the back of the misbehaviours head. He never had any class discipline problems.

[Terbs]

Those WERE the days !!
Discipline....never did me any harm. I hold (or held) no malice towards any of the teachers that walloped me, threw blackboard dusters at me, gave me detention, or indeed the local bobby, who clipped my ear a few times. No different to my parents who dished out the same treatment. Its a word long since deleted from the English dictionary called.......RESPECT !!!!!!

[STEMO]

Those WERE the days !!
Discipline....never did me any harm. I hold (or held) no malice towards any of the teachers that walloped me, threw blackboard dusters at me, gave me detention, or indeed the local bobby, who clipped my ear a few times. No different to my parents who dished out the same treatment. Its a word long since deleted from the English dictionary called.......RESPECT !!!!!!

So.....we need to beat some respect into our kids then. If someone down the pub gives you a fickin good hiding, tell the police you don’t want to press charges, you actually respect him for it. A lot of people in authority in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were no more than thugs and cowards, great at throwing their weight around with kids, but would scream like a girl if one of the parents gave them some of the same.
My kids respect me, and I’ve never laid a finger on any of them.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Those WERE the days !!
Discipline....never did me any harm. I hold (or held) no malice towards any of the teachers that walloped me, threw blackboard dusters at me, gave me detention, or indeed the local bobby, who clipped my ear a few times. No different to my parents who dished out the same treatment. Its a word long since deleted from the English dictionary called.......RESPECT !!!!!!

So.....we need to beat some respect into our kids then. If someone down the pub gives you a fickin good hiding, tell the police you don’t want to press charges, you actually respect him for it. A lot of people in authority in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were no more than thugs and cowards, great at throwing their weight around with kids, but would scream like a girl if one of the parents gave them some of the same.
My kids respect me, and I’ve never laid a finger on any of them.

Yep we had a Metalwork teacher who used to drag miscreants into the store, give them a dead leg and then paddle their arses with a piece of flat metal that he called Excalibur! 

If he'd done it occasionally to someone who genuinely deserved it then no problem, but he did it for fun and picked on someone every lesson.    I didn't respect him then and don't now. He was a ladies genitalia!