When my eldest brother went to Ashfield Boys High, he had a Mr. Keats as a woodwork teacher with the nickname of Killer Keats [for obvious reasons] but he had no problem with the Killer as he was top of the class at woodwork.
By the time I got to Mr. Keat's class 10 years later he had mellowed thank goodness, as I was bloody hopeless at woodwork.
Had a math's teacher by the name of Mr. Henny and he was a real a...hole.
Every lesson he came into the classroom with a case of the 💩's and that's how he stayed, caning kids for the slightest little thing.
A library teacher nicknamed Pinhead due to the shape of his bald head, was a reformed a...hole.
A science teacher who gave a kid 6 one day [for a 'very minor' offence] and wanted to keep going until all the other kids objected, then threatened the whole class with the cane as he had very nearly come close to a total loss of control. The kids father fronted up to school threatening to dish out the same punishment to the teacher as well as the headmaster.
I hated the first two years in high school because of these out and out bullies, and my exam results reflected that.
For some reason most of the teachers in 3rd year were good and my results reflected that, in that I went from an average of about 52% to about 80%.
Spare the rod and spoil the child, what a load of utter nonsense.
