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every staff room appears to be a knocking-shop
My mother, who was a French teacher and then Principal teacher at a Scottish state school can confirm that this is certainly what many male teachers think, drunk or sober.
One of our neighbours was also one of her colleagues and a rare beast - a Latin teacher in the state school system. Because his class size was small and all his pupils willing volunteers, he had no idea what his colleagues were really experiencing and thought the tales they told in the staff room were signs of them just being overdramatic or hysterical.
Then the school dropped Latin from the syllabus and he found he was expected to serve out his time taking general classes. He didn't last one term.
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Having sampled most forms of secondary education; grammar (expelled), boarding (paid for by Education Council, expelled) and comprehensive (didn't attend often enough to get myself expelled), I can confirm that teachers are not infrequently drunk, weak, kiddy fiddling, psychos or just plain barking mad throughout the entire system.
Some of my friends are teachers, they all qualify in at least one category, except kiddy fiddling (to the best of my knowledge). They are all cyclists, which explains a lot. I have been to several staff parties, every staff room appears to be a knocking-shop, particularly once alcohol is added.
Oddly, I have never worried about the alumni of any school which no longer required my services. My college, on the other hand, gave us J.R.R.Tolkien, Richard Burton, Roger Bannister and Philip Pullman (of which I am proud) and Dominic Cummings (of which I am not).