In the classroom I sometimes find myself having to hold my tongue. In this afternoon's lesson with year ten one of them asked me if I knew who Mr 'Y' was, 'he's well weird, don't you think sir?' My honest thought was, yeah, he is a bit, but I managed to keep the words slipping from my mouth and the smirk off my face and delivered a: 'show respect to the teachers at this school'. Thank god teenagers aren't telepathic.

Seeing as I notice the attractice looking female teachers at school, it is reasonable to assume that there must also be attractive looking male teachers. I of course wouldn't know about such things because as a member of the unfairer sex I reserve the right to feel very awkward about commenting on another man's appearance.

However you can tell who the popular male teachers are by the reaction of the female staff and pupils to them. One of my year tens said to me a while back: 'do you know who Mr 'X' is?', I replied that I did not. 'Well you should find out. He's gorgeous!' Leaving aside why they thought this information would be of an use to me, I thought it was a litte crass. An NQT could get jealous here, am I not at least mildly attractive? Though I suppose some questions are better left unasked and therefore unanswered. Since then I've noticed that the female teachers fall over themselves to make Mr 'X' cups of the treasured elixir that teacher craze the most, tea. Oh, to be King!