I won't mention his name but a very popular teacher of mine sadly passed away two days ago. He turned up to work in a Harvy Davidson, wore pink glasses and had a large pony tail.
He was one of the last of the old fashioned teachers. Everybody behaved in his classes because all the pupils really liked him. Instead of teaching from books he used to do set up lots of experiments and make indoor fireworks, rumour had it that after I left one went wrong and he ended up burning his class room down, I am not sure if that was true but he hated all the OFSTED crap and paper work. He was just a damn good teacher.
What struck me is somebody has made a facebook page and 100's of ex pupils and teachers have replied to it. He left the school several years ago too. I am not sure how old he was but probably would have been in his mid 50's by now.
It feels like a part of my childhood has died with him, he made science interesting.
It is amazing the power of facebook too, without facebook I probably would not have found out until months or a year later.
He was the kind of teacher that could only ever work in a rough inercity school, he worked there as he really wanted to make a difference and he did.
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