Weird New Zealand teachers
1. "The principal of a school I taught at would move out of his government-provided school house during the school holidays and let it out to holidaymakers. He moved into the Home Economics complex and slept in the sickbay."
2. "In the 70s aged 8 I had a primary school teacher who told us all that the Waimak had flooded and we all had to go home as our pets had drowned. As we were filing out in tears he called us back - 'only joking'. Another day the same teacher took away the ladder a pupil was standing on while the pupil was hanging something over the ceiling joist. The pupil was left hanging with his arms around the joist screaming until the teacher put the ladder back."
3. "Primary school in the 1960s. Primer three. Had my head under the raised desk lid when ... bang, teacher closed the lid down on my head. It wasn't violent but I decided to play possum as she walked back to the front of the class. She had her back to class, writing on the blackboard until some one called out that I hadn't moved. Panic, concern and apologetic utterings as she tried to revive me ... roused, rubbing my head and acting stunned. Sickbay resting until school out."
4. "My relief teacher, at a small Northland school in the 70s, had me and two other students mowing his overgrown lawn during school hours. Took us the best part of two weeks and we thought it was great! Now I know why I didn't pass School C."
