Just Stop for a Minute and Smile....

Mollymay's DDW's December Challenge- History

This is a history book; not in the sense that it is a book about History, but it is about teaching children, approaching school leaving age about money.... and as the money is all in £, ls,and d. I think you can see why I call it a history book.

When I was at Secondary School, subject teachers were a new phenomena, and they worried me a bit. Especially the History Teachers. I had heard stories of one mad teacher who used toilet roll to demonstrate Egyptian Mummys, and horror of horrors I did get him, and he did indeed use the toilet roll, but actually, I really enjoyed his lessons once I got in about it. His classes were messy but enthusiastic.

The next year, all Change, Mr B arrived. Mr B, wore a gown (as did a lot of the teachers, but Mr B wore his with some swagger and style that other's didn't quite manage). Mr B, had standards that most of us didn't comprehend. Our jotters had to be "managed" in a particular way. Every new page on our jotter had to be headed up with an Illuminated capital letter,in the style of Byzantine Monks.

Speaking was not permitted; homework had to be completed in the same style as class work. Any deviation from the rules resulted in the BELT. One day, my friend coloured outside the line of her new illuminated R,and turned and pointed to my rubber. I raised my head, and Mr B turned round and pointed at her.

She stood up slowly and walked to the front of the class. lifted her hands and WHACK.

That was her first and last belt.

And I know which one of the teaching styles I preferred... but every time I pickup a pen to write, I've still got to enlarge and decorate the first letter.