Diary of a Schoolteacher: Why teachers are rarely the sharpest tools in the closet [Independent.ie]
- Published: 23 November 2011
One of the things that put me off becoming a teacher was teachers' dress sense. Terrible beards, shirt and tie stuffed into a crewneck with a sports jacket thrown over it, soup-stained trousers -- yuck!
I'll never forget my French teacher's hideous yellow skirt with her initials embroidered in huge pink letters on the front, and then there was that young sub in her early twenties whose tight v-neck top was distracting for a different reason.
Mind you, I have a lot of sympathy for the female teachers as they struggle to avoid wearing anything that could be considered tarty or provocative. The only advice I can give my lady colleagues would be that, when teaching in a boys' school, best stick to a boiler suit.
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