Teacherspeak

by studentteacher83 @ Wednesday, 19. Oct, 2005 - 20:56:06

Having now spent a little time reading about education, at university sessions and in school itself I've started to understand teacherspeak. For instance:

"Neil has low attainment levels" means: Neil is retarded, I wish he was in someone else's class.

"Class 9C are challenging" means: Class 9C are bastards.

"Becky, would you like to explain to the class how you got your answer?" means: I'll be damned if I know what's going on.

"Open your textbooks and work quietly for the rest of the lesson" means: I'm hungover.

"I don't think it's any of your business whether I..." means: Damn! They're on to me!

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Gulliver123 [Member]
2005-12-11 @ 12:44

A couple of weeks ago I had one Yr10 boy and one Yr10 girl having a paternity row in the class. She was accusing him of being the father of her child. He said that she'd slept with so many boys she couldn't possibly know he was the father. As she did a quick calculation on her fingers of how many boys she actually had slept with, he threw a desk at her.

I must have missed the lecture at Teacher Training which dealt with this.