Teachers are people, too, and, as such, they have their own personalities, their own minds and their own past.
Unsurprisingly, before teachers were teachers, they were students.
Some were students who loved maths and could do their eight times table backwards, some enjoyed every subject and sat quietly as they learned, and some found themselves in trouble more often than not.
We wanted to take a trip down memory lane and celebrate the teachers who once had a rebellious streak. That’s why over on Twitter we asked, “What’s the worst thing you did when you were at school?”
Teachers’ top pranks
It was hard to whittle down the responses, but here are a few of our favourites:
To be fair, Smashing Pumpkins were a good band:
As long as the ringtone wasn’t Crazy Frog:
Ah... the innocence of childhood:
It’s always the quiet ones:
Thomas Edison would be proud...
Bonus points for the creativity of this one:
History really does repeat itself:
We’re calling Steven Spielberg up now...
Teaching is truly a thankless profession:
This is starting to feel like an episode of Recess:
