My teacher wife has ruined TAF for me :(

[Sgt GrizZ]

She alerted me to this that they use in school to teach the little monsters their days.

Oh dear god, can't play TAF now without singing the days Kill me, kill me now .....theres Monday and theres Tuesday .....MAKE it STOP , I want my pinball back

WARNING - Listen at your own risk. You may never get this out of your head

 

[johnwhitfield]

**** me that's bad.

Maybe I could use it with my 6th formers. I just had an essay in explaining that Tesco are open 27/4. Where do you even start with that? I'd love to think it was a typo but I know better....

 

[Paul]

i think ive just ****ed myself laffing

 

[Fintan Stack]

Sorry, but that is better than the original. Somebody needs to get a Pinsound board in their TAF and do the bizzo. Would make the game even better.

 

[JT.]

My wife did some checking work on GCSE paper marking after our kids were born, but before she went back to work - basically just double checking that the people who were marking the GCSE French papers had counted up the marks properly. So seeing as it was a bit of a bore, and I am just about able to count to 100, I gave her a hand sometimes. Our favorite paper ever was someone who drew a picture of a Unicorn on a sheet of A4, and that was it. Their name, and a unicorn...genius

 

[johnwhitfield]

Ahh but did they get a mark for the unicorn?

An infamous story came out from an English GCSE a couple of years ago when a student was asked to evaluate the impact Shakespeare had on his audience and the student reply was "**** off", He was given 1 mark for spelling. Apparently if he had said "**** off!" he would have scored two marks, one for grammar and one for spelling

And I still like the pic below. Tells you more about who writes the questions than the student

 

[JT.]

Zero marks. But I guess the original markers had no idea whether he/she spelt their name right because this particular paper was from a Saudi school - at first I thought some parent had paid loads to privately educate their child, who had then screwed them royally. But then I spoke to a friend who did a few years as a teacher in Saudi (good pay, easy to get a job, no tax...stonings, no beer, etc) who said that the government give out education grants of some sort (maybe for mature students, I can't remember), but that there was no limit on how many times students could re-sit. He said he used to see a few of the same people year after year just playing the system, taking the grant, probably drawing a unicorn, then coming back the following year. But it was always a happy event for us when we got a batch of middle eastern school papers. Counting to 10 takes less time than counting to 100.

 

[cooldan]

Keep em coming, educators.

There's Monday and there's Tuesday....

 

[ronsplooter]

Had to shut that video off quickly....don't want the greatest pinball ever made spoiled for me too

 

[Moonraker]

I want my pinball back

Easy, watch several episodes of The Addams Family to redress the balance!

 

[Andy_B]

My favourite, and I've no idea if it's true, is the one where students were asked to use the word judicious in a sentence . Best answer:- "Hands that judicious are as soft as your face"