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Does anyone remember or have a favourite teacher from school that they still remember?

For me it was the Computing teacher we had - who we nicknamed "GIBBON" based on his appearance....
Some of the classes we had were pure gold and a number of the class got into a habit of recording a number of his classes on the MACS (good old Simpletext for anyone who knows the program) to catch his "classic" comments....

One such student actually mixed a demo CD together in memory of those comments - and I actually found that CD at home when cleaning up and listened to it last night... which brought back some great memories...

My favourite comment is (because of the reaction of the class);

"THIS IS MY ROOM AND I"LL DO WHAT I WANT IN IT"

Definately not my favourite but I do remember my Year 9 Maths teacher Mr Pfening as he was on the news a few years back.
Hes doing life in jail for assaulting and murdering a child.
I think he gave me an A and sat me next to the best looking girl in class though.

Yr 12 Economics teacher was a champion, instead of busting me for booze on the snow trip, he sat with me and a few mates and had a drink! Former state footballer as well, had some great stories to tell!

Had a PE teacher who's name was Robin Hood (no really) was a bit of a worry though, used to have a shower in the boys changerooms after every class and would make sure every boy had one as well. Ponced around just like the PE teacher character Merrick Watts does on the Merrick and Rosso TV shows.

Finished my schooling at Katherine in the NT had a real mixed bag of memorable teachers; Maths 2 teacher that used to wag classes, 6ft 6 Maths 1 teacher that was a surfie from Newscastle and his English teacher wife who was a hairy armpitted, womens rights preaching black Sth African. Most of the teachers up there were either no good for southern schools or real alternate lifestyle stypes looking to peace out man.

Wedgie wrote:Definately not my favourite but I do remember my Year 9 Maths teacher Mr Pfening as he was on the news a few years back.
Hes doing life in jail for assaulting and murdering a child.
I think he gave me an A and sat me next to the best looking girl in class though.

Wow, i remember that guy and the incident, think it happened in Murray Bridge.

Was he a teacher at your school at the time of the offences and/or arrest?

My favourite teacher is the one who told me I'd never go anywhere.

And you've gone all the way to the Riverland! Must be 200 km's?

GWW wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Definately not my favourite but I do remember my Year 9 Maths teacher Mr Pfening as he was on the news a few years back.
Hes doing life in jail for assaulting and murdering a child.
I think he gave me an A and sat me next to the best looking girl in class though.

Wow, i remember that guy and the incident, think it happened in Murray Bridge.

Was he a teacher at your school at the time of the offences and/or arrest?

His name is Dieter Pfennig,

He also taught my Mrs, she reckons he was creepy at the time.

I had a teacher in about grade 4 or 5, Miss James, I can't remember her original 1st name, but we nick named her Jessie, the name stuck and a few years later she changed her name to Jessie. I can also remember a couple of kids shoving potatoes up the end of her exhaust pipe, when she started her car the muffler blew apart.

smac wrote:And you've gone all the way to the Riverland! Must be 200 km's?

300 mate, and that's further than you've gone

GWW wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Definately not my favourite but I do remember my Year 9 Maths teacher Mr Pfening as he was on the news a few years back.
Hes doing life in jail for assaulting and murdering a child.
I think he gave me an A and sat me next to the best looking girl in class though.

Wow, i remember that guy and the incident, think it happened in Murray Bridge.

Was he a teacher at your school at the time of the offences and/or arrest?

Thats the one and youre spot on about Murray Bridge. The comby which had all the DNA was the same comby he drove to our school.
It was well after I left school and he was at a different school (Glengowrie) when the brown stuff hit the fan. Allegedly he'd been investigated for child related offences before at Glengowrie.
He was a bit creepy but besides being fairly strict I actually found him a reasonable teacher but I was a nerd in Year 9 who was a star at Maths, only started to rebel the following year.

i have 2 memorable teachers....both female, first an absolute stunner who used to bend over alot infront of her male students...motivation perhaps? i know i was always first to her class. the 2nd was an absolute shocker who must have had an itchy "womanly area" alot, always used to scratch it on the corner of tables

I had a teacher who built a cupboard, used for storing cleaning implements, but ostensibly it was used to lock up a kid who had ADD and would go off his tree every now and again.

Anyway - she also locked up two others students in there during that time, one of whom was me

She eventually got in trouble for it, the story got covered by Channel Nine and my parents saw the story. I never told them that I was one of the kids who got locked in the cupboard.

crushinator wrote:i have 2 memorable teachers....both female, first an absolute stunner who used to bend over alot infront of her male students...motivation perhaps? i know i was always first to her class. the 2nd was an absolute shocker who must have had an itchy "womanly area" alot, always used to scratch it on the corner of tables

Dogwatcher wrote:

smac wrote:And you've gone all the way to the Riverland! Must be 200 km's?

300 mate, and that's further than you've gone

Yep got me.

Does working in a pub in Glasgow count?

GWW wrote:
Wow, i remember that guy and the incident, think it happened in Murray Bridge.

Was he a teacher at your school at the time of the offences and/or arrest?

I just spoke to the Mrs, the offence happened whilst he was a teacher at her school (Glengowrie), he continued to teach them after the offence was committed, just didn't turn up after school holidays......his holiday was continuing.
She also said she remembers he made the class sit boy, girl, boy girl etc., she can also remember after tearing ligaments in her ankle she had to keep her leg elevated, girls had to wear skirts or dresses, he kept dropping his pen in front of her desk while she had one leg up on a chair.

We had a Principal in High School (Actually at a Area school) who had a locked glass disply cabinet just inside his office, displayed in it were a large selection of canes in a rack simmilar to a pool cue rack, they were all various lengths and thicknesses, and when you were about to be on the recieving end of one, he would take his time flexing 5 or 6 of them while deciding which weapon to use.

I had a grade 7 teacher at Elizabeth Downs Primary named Gavin Webber. not only a good teacher but a bloody good bloke as well. he was our footy coach and later our captain of our cricket team when we got older, then our drinking partner when we got even older. Once when we were about 18 or 19 a heap of us went to goolwa for the australia day long weekend and gav and his wife came along. we were only there half an hour and we were kicking a footy around and my cousin tackled Gavin and he stumbled in a pot hole and broke his leg. He spent the whole weekend in the victor harbour hospital while we all good time. He Is still a bloody good bloke.

GWW wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Definately not my favourite but I do remember my Year 9 Maths teacher Mr Pfening as he was on the news a few years back.
Hes doing life in jail for assaulting and murdering a child.
I think he gave me an A and sat me next to the best looking girl in class though.

Wow, i remember that guy and the incident, think it happened in Murray Bridge.

Was he a teacher at your school at the time of the offences and/or arrest?

He taught at Murray Bridge?
I thought the name sounded familiar...
I remember a teacher there, Mr Schu who was only ever 3 seconds away from a nervous breakdown...

Punk Rooster wrote:

GWW wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Definately not my favourite but I do remember my Year 9 Maths teacher Mr Pfening as he was on the news a few years back.
Hes doing life in jail for assaulting and murdering a child.
I think he gave me an A and sat me next to the best looking girl in class though.

Wow, i remember that guy and the incident, think it happened in Murray Bridge.

Was he a teacher at your school at the time of the offences and/or arrest?

He taught at Murray Bridge?
I thought the name sounded familiar...
I remember a teacher there, Mr Schu who was only ever 3 seconds away from a nervous breakdown...

I dont think he taught at MBHS, PR, but somehow the incident occurred at MB down by the river.

That name you gave reminds me of a certain Tech Studies teacher at the school, there were certain stories about him doing the wrong thing at MBHS, then years later he was in the news again, this time he lost his job (was at a different school then), apparently had been warned but kept on doing the wrong thing.

tigersupporter wrote:I had a grade 7 teacher at Elizabeth Downs Primary named Gavin Webber. not only a good teacher but a bloody good bloke as well. he was our footy coach and later our captain of our cricket team when we got older, then our drinking partner when we got even older. Once when we were about 18 or 19 a heap of us went to goolwa for the australia day long weekend and gav and his wife came along. we were only there half an hour and we were kicking a footy around and my cousin tackled Gavin and he stumbled in a pot hole and broke his leg. He spent the whole weekend in the victor harbour hospital while we all good time. He Is still a bloody good bloke.

Ahhh the Downs primary, you'd have some great memories from there TS....

I remember Gavin. Nice bloke. I remember seeing him around at the traditional northern suburbs lightning footy canrival and all the kids from the Downs used to look like they were having a great time.

PS: TS, his son posts here