#22

Yes, actually. Well an email, not a letter.
Sent it to one of my English teachers and basically said “hey, thanks for being really nice to me and letting me hang out in your classroom at lunch time and stuff cause the other kids were mean to me. Also, thanks also for helping me get an A & B in my English GCSEs when I failed most of the others, appreciate it. Doing further studying now and wanted to say how grateful I am to you for helping me to not completely hate learning and actually really enjoy it. Hope you’re well!” And he sent back the most lovely email in return which makes me well up a bit when I think about the nice things he said in it.
See him around town sometimes and I’m all “YO MR FREDRICKON WAZZUUUUUPPPP.” Last time I saw him in fact we had a chat which was great.
Also contemplated sending one to another English teacher and also a music teacher, because I am a disser and they were the only ones I got on with in secondary school.

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#25

OH I contemplated emailing a science teacher I hated, went as far as emailing the school and being like oh heya I’m a formal pupil here can I have Mr Staley’s email address please? Anyway turns out he’d left, which is such a shame cause I had the most beautiful email crafted out explaining how the horrible nickname he gave me stuck with me long after school as well as his constant picking on me gave me some pretty bad mental related issues but alas he’d been fired.

#26

Rightly, by the sounds of it

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#27

Oh absolutely, still annoyed I didn’t have anything to do with it though :smiley:

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#28

me and my friend went back to our old school a year or so after we left and paid a visit to our our old English teacher who we liked. was my friend’s idea but was also partly an excuse to see around the huge new school building that was completed and opened just after we left. we had to have her come and sign us in to get visitor passes though, in the old school i’m pretty sure we could have just wandered in off the street without anyone batting an eyelid.

a couple of years later i spotted the same teacher in Asda and did my usual thing of “oh no there’s someone i know, hide” and then realised i should have just said hi because she was nice and definitely saw me look at her and turn the other direction. ffs.

#29

i wrote to my english teacher a couple years back. lovely bloke still, no idea if he really did remember me but at the very least did a good job of pretending as such

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#30

Shocked that a few of us have mentioned English teachers. Shocked!

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#31

like I was going to waste time frequenting with idk history teachers or some shit

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#32

clearly showing off to him

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#33

Most of my teachers were unremarkable apart from the rugby teacher who bodyslamed a pupil who was giving him attitude and “nobby” who had a boner in a lift or something.

I don’t think I’d get on with any of them as I reckon they were mostly Tories and probably a few racists in there too

#34

Idk, I remember most of mine being quite left wing.

My favourite (now no longer alive, sadly) was a committed socialist who, back in the days before the Berlin Wall came down apparently used to get free copies of the Communist Manifesto sent from the Soviet embassy for the school library.

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#35

East Northants is not very socialist sadly

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#36

Good to see the English teachers getting a good shout out. I used to get the odd card and I did get a wee message on Facebook that was hidden in a wee folder but I didn’t see for ages but these days I feel a bit like I’m phoning it in a bit and consequently the thank you cards and so on have dried up. Not sure if I’m still cutting the mustard.

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#37

I considered trying to contact the librarian/English teacher from my high school (who never even taught me) to ask him why he was so awful, and to also tell him how awful he was. Just a mean old bullying bastard. The type you wondered why he ever got into teaching because of his visceral hatred of the pupils. He was on old school disciplinarian who always got involved in everyone else’s business and patrolled the corridors hoping to prey on someone who’d been asked to leave a lesson for any reason. Fucking hated him.

Never did but a few years after I left this happened:

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#38

home economics teacher?

#39

Man that would be sweet.

#40

All of my teacher pals are the arty type. English, music, drama.

#41

Yep. About 10 years ago I emailed my old maths teacher to thank him for getting me through my GCSE (he literally gave me loads of lunchtime detentions and gave me 1:1 tutoring). Told him how much I appreciated him and was sorry for being a dick in class :laughing:

With things like this I always figure that there isn’t anyone who doesn’t like being complimented so go for it.

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#42

mustard is actually quite savoury

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#43

Hey, English teacher here! I think that my favourite communications I have with former pupils are when they contact me years afterwards looking for advice and support about getting into teaching and the best teacher training programmes etc. Always love it when kids you remember really growing and developing in their time at secondary school now want to be the next generation of teachers and maybe you can help with that. Like passing on the torch or something. Is great.