Teacher who downed bottle of wine and turned up to primary school assembly drunk is banned from classroom

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1. I’ve been in school assemblies that needed at least a bottle of wine to make them bearable.

2. I am absolutely shocked. There are people who go to work sober? How do they cope?

3. When I went to comprehensive school the teachers spent lunchtime in the pub up the road smoking and drinking.

4. Last year I was on holiday in Bosnia, our guide for the via ferrata we were doing offered me a large 750ml bottle of 5% beer after we finished, in the absolute full knowledge I was driving.

   I said no thanks, as he proceeded to drink one himself, before setting off in his car for his other job as a school PE teacher.

5. Used to be a cleaner at an activity camp which had primary school trips and the amount of alcohol bottles in the teachers rooms I am amazed how they functioned.

6. I bet this was not the first time….how many times had they assisted or led assembly after a few glasses of vino beforehand? When does ‘shame’ transition into ‘absolute legend’?

7. One of my high school teachers was always pissed he made it through to retirement without being sacked I am 57 though.

8. Banning them from the classroom doesn’t really go far enough, sounds like the problem was in the school hall. They should have sacked them really. I have not read the article.

9. I suppose it’s funny till she kills a couple of kids while driving in to work because she’s pissed.

10. Knowing an alcoholic this is as sad as fuck, if she hasn’t got someone close to help her her life will be fucked.

11. Let’s face it everyone would need something to spend all day trying to teach a room full of children anything, and also it a bottle of wine that’s like slightly numb fingers at best and at worst slightly fuzzy at the edges

12. Did he get to tell some good jokes, or was it more a case of melancholy at his fate to endure assemblies?

13. Banned from the classroom but performs a mean version of “give me oil in my lamp” first thing in the morning

14. Classic 1990s teacher behaviour right there. Our arts teacher used to sit in the cupboard hotboxing and only surface to check progress. Which was always ‘awesome. Keep going’ then vanish for another 10 minutes smoko.

15. If they had in school training that day, this is fully understandable.

16. In my old job in regulations I’d fairly regularly end up on the section of the .Gov website that shows all the cases where teachers etc. get banned from teaching.

    Alcoholism is scarily common and this one seems pretty tame.

    The one that sticks out is the teacher that arrived at a posh public school sports day completely leathered, drove her car straight across the cricket pitch/sports field the kids were competing on, narrowly avoided the crowds of parents on the other side and went straight into a tree.

    The worst part is it took something that public and blatant to get her fired. Judging by the rest of the report she’d regularly been taking classes while wasted for sometime before that particular incident.

17. Got driven to the off licence by a teacher to get some beer before a year 11 disco !

18. Pity. If they’d been in the job a few more years, a single bottle would never get them drunk.

19. Probably worth banning them from the entire school as well.

20. Back in the second half of the 90s, we had a Chemistry teacher who would drink Brandy/Whiskey from a hip flask before and during lessons. The grapevine said that he’d been doing that since the 80s. He was still in that school after I did my GCSEs and left in 2000. I don’t know how long he was still in that school but I doubt he was there when the schools were taken over by Academies.

21. I love how the comments are basically “yeah we get it, not really appropriate but we get why you did.”

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