In a class of thirty boys it only needs a couple of bad apples to turn the teachers life into a bit of a nightmare. To be fair being a teacher at a senior school is a far from easy task. I certainly would not want to do it after seeing how much my poor unfortunate teachers struggled to deal and cope with each working day. They are having to spend so much time in trying to calm down and control the disruptive pupils that they have little other time to spend on teaching the other children.
I am not involved in education in my own career; I sell French doors and I offer stuttering therapy for a living. I worked at an egg donation clinic for around a decade before I decided to re-train. My schooling could have been so much better, in my opinion, which will have no doubt helped my career prospects.
In the first three years of senior school in Maths, we had a teacher who was so good it was untrue. She was called Mrs Washbourne and she was as hard as nails. Not one boy dared to mess about in her class and they all had respect for her as a teacher. I really enjoyed going to her lessons and at the end of the third year I managed to finish second out of one hundred and eight boys in the final exam. I was very proud of this performance and Mrs Washbourne stated that I was heading for an A grade at GCSE level.
The problem was that Mrs Washbourne was only qualified to teach up to the end of this third year. The new mathematics lecturer was a shadow of the brilliance of Mrs Washbourne. Yes he did have a lot more qualifications to his name but not the two that mattered – how to handle a class and how to discipline a class. He had no control over his class at all and was not even able to look at your eyes when he was speaking to you. The naughty boys of the class were in heaven once more and yet again I was unable to concentrate and receive the standard of teaching I desired.
In the end my final grade was a rather pathetic C. I had promised so much but failed to deliver. I suppose many of the readers of this article may think that a C grade is quite good and it is for the majority of people. I personally however knew that I should have achieved an A.
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