Richard Lamont  wrote:

> Bill Wright wrote:
> > "tony sayer"  wrote in message 
> > news:trqIk5KB8HkHFwwK@bancom.co.uk...
> >> In article , Bill Wright
> >> Odd that my daughter did very well in RE last term but thinks the whole
> >> idea doesn't stand scrutiny!..
> > 
> > Yes, I was good at RI (Religious Instruction), but I've always been very
> > sceptical.
> 
> The only thing I remember from RI was the brat sitting next to me
> thinking the word Yarweh sounded very funny, just after the bastard
> vicar had assured us the word was too holy to utter out loud.
> 
> "Yarweh! Ha ha! Yarweh! Oooh! Tee hee! Yarweh!"
> 
> <THWACK!>
> 
> The blackboard duster hit *ME* right just behind the earhole, and it was
> the worst pain I'd experienced to date. I nearly blacked out.

I was once dragged out in front of the class and throttled by the RI
teacher with simular consequences for getting 0/10 in a test.
Appropriately, he was wearing his paramilitary uniform at the time,
being an arkela or whatever in the school scouts troop.

-- 
Alan Pemberton
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
To e-mail me directly, please visit
<http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/index.html#Mail-me>

"Alan Pemberton" <Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message 
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> I was once dragged out in front of the class and throttled by the RI
> teacher with simular consequences for getting 0/10 in a test.
> Appropriately, he was wearing his paramilitary uniform at the time,
> being an arkela or whatever in the school scouts troop.

The headmistress of the junior school I attended told every child whose 
handwriting sloped backwards that they would go mad later in life.

Our RI teacher at the secondary modern told us that if we didn't believe in 
God and pray every night we would go bald by the time we were 30.

The headmaster of one school I worked at in the 70s told the whole assembled 
school of 7 to 11 yr olds that if they didn't work really hard and behave 
perfectly during the period of the upcoming school inspection they would go 
to Hell.  He described Hell with such fervour that several of the little 
ones started to cry.

The good old days eh?

Bill

Bill Wright  wrote:

> "Alan Pemberton" <Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
> news:1iaynpk.1m3aixp1ohxam3N%Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid...
> > I was once dragged out in front of the class and throttled by the RI
> > teacher with simular consequences for getting 0/10 in a test.
> > Appropriately, he was wearing his paramilitary uniform at the time,
> > being an arkela or whatever in the school scouts troop.
> 
> The headmistress of the junior school I attended told every child whose
> handwriting sloped backwards that they would go mad later in life.
> 
> Our RI teacher at the secondary modern told us that if we didn't believe in
> God and pray every night we would go bald by the time we were 30.
> 
> The headmaster of one school I worked at in the 70s told the whole assembled
> school of 7 to 11 yr olds that if they didn't work really hard and behave
> perfectly during the period of the upcoming school inspection they would go
> to Hell.  He described Hell with such fervour that several of the little
> ones started to cry.
> 
> The good old days eh?

Yes, but with two out three predictions having already come true...

-- 
Alan Pemberton
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
To e-mail me directly, please visit
<http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/index.html#Mail-me>

"Alan Pemberton" <Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Bill Wright  wrote:
>
>> "Alan Pemberton" <Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> wrote in 
>> message
>> news:1iaynpk.1m3aixp1ohxam3N%Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid...
>> > I was once dragged out in front of the class and throttled by the RI
>> > teacher with simular consequences for getting 0/10 in a test.
>> > Appropriately, he was wearing his paramilitary uniform at the time,
>> > being an arkela or whatever in the school scouts troop.
>>
>> The headmistress of the junior school I attended told every child whose
>> handwriting sloped backwards that they would go mad later in life.
>>
>> Our RI teacher at the secondary modern told us that if we didn't believe 
>> in
>> God and pray every night we would go bald by the time we were 30.
>>
>> The headmaster of one school I worked at in the 70s told the whole 
>> assembled
>> school of 7 to 11 yr olds that if they didn't work really hard and behave
>> perfectly during the period of the upcoming school inspection they would 
>> go
>> to Hell.  He described Hell with such fervour that several of the little
>> ones started to cry.
>>
>> The good old days eh?
>
> Yes, but with two out three predictions having already come true...

No, bollocks Alan! My writing had no discernable slope any more than it had 
discernable letter shapes, but I still went mad.

And I ain't bald.

And the threat of Hell was aimed at the kids, and I was a teacher. I was 
therefore already in Hell.

Bill

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:06:41 -0000, "Bill Wright"
 wrote:

>The headmaster of one school I worked at in the 70s told the whole assembled 
>school of 7 to 11 yr olds that if they didn't work really hard and behave 
>perfectly during the period of the upcoming school inspection they would go 
>to Hell.  He described Hell with such fervour that several of the little 
>ones started to cry.

This school can't have been in Rotherham then......


--

"Mike"  wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:06:41 -0000, "Bill Wright"
>  wrote:
>
>>The headmaster of one school I worked at in the 70s told the whole 
>>assembled
>>school of 7 to 11 yr olds that if they didn't work really hard and behave
>>perfectly during the period of the upcoming school inspection they would 
>>go
>>to Hell.  He described Hell with such fervour that several of the little
>>ones started to cry.
>
> This school can't have been in Rotherham then......

Rotherham is chilly all the year round and the kids are used to it, so a 
description of a place where they might want to remove a layer of clothing 
is likely to traumatise them. However, the school was in a nice area of 
Doncaster.

He was a madman that bloke. He spent the best part of the new books budget 
on roses for the garden one year. He was obsessive about preventing the kids 
seeing any sex education. He died in a ditch. He was out walking one Sunday 
when his heart stopped.

Bill