Teacher who told pupils ‘this class terrifies me’ chugged gin from a water bottle before vomiting in toilet
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/intoxicated-teacher-banned-drinking-school-b2968862.html?fbclid=Iwb21leARipLdjbGNrBGKktGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHlPeDF6uWhzwitWgxbWkaeS9hdEK06mzYpBboYd2kebm51w5018fv93tNUPq_aem_6EjXt-OyPpBIksdX3T3bdQ
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When something is presented as horrifying but is just funny
> banned from teaching
There’s always a silver lining
This sounds like it would be something from a tv show not real life, what
>In January 2025, Ms Kapur brought a water bottle to the school, which contained gin and lemon.
>She stated that the bottle had been in her bag from her “birthday weekend” and she had not realised it still contained alcohol when she started drinking it.
>Ms Kapur said she could not spit it out because her students would question what was in the bottle, so she “chugged it to stop myself vomiting” and consumed around a third of the bottle.
😃
As a teacher, I don’t approve of her actions.
….But I get it.
You have to remember you don’t know what’s going on n in their lives, I used to think one teacher really wasn’t interested at times, little did I know her husband had dementia and was very violent to her
As a former teacher in a school in one of the most deprived areas in the country, I totally get it. A lot of teachers drank every night and it would be very easy to become addicted to alcohol. Teaching was scary sometimes. Some kids were feral and their parents…even worse.
Isn’t having one of your teachers come into class pissed kind of a sought-after rite of passage for a lot students? I remember my art teacher doing it once morning and it was hilarious, we all had the best class ever, and nobody dobbed him in.
Sometimes I wonder about keeping a sneaky bottle of classroom whisky in my desk drawer – some liquid courage before teaching year 9s on a Friday afternoon.
I don’t approve…but I get it. I’ve had classes that terrify me before.
Sometimes I wonder about keeping a sneaky bottle of classroom whisky in my desk drawer – some liquid courage before teaching year 9s on a Friday afternoon.
I don’t approve…but I get it. I’ve had classes that terrify me before.
You’d expect the school and authority to offered help rather than sack them for this unless she was a repeat offender but only this one incident is mentioned
Sounds like a normal 80s teacher you’d come across at my school in Manchester.
Just opened Reddit and this is at the top. Directly below it, an advert for patience distillery for their gin. There’s got to be something going on there?
Not sure how to upload screenshots here
Who the hell could blame her? If you’ve seen the feral behaviour of kids in classrooms, you’d be wasted on the job too.
I think it’s very telling that whenever these stories come out (and they do trickle through every now and then), the reaction is always sympathetic. It’s so fucking tough what these teachers are put through, an insanely thankless job the majority of the time.
I mean, my job is blandly corporate and even I get it. Let alone trying to teach 30 plus kids, a sizeable proportion haven’t been parented in their lives, with parents hostile to the very idea of education and a lifelong hatred of teachers after their maths teacher was a bit mean to them in 1993.
It’s bad for teachers, it’s bad for kids who actually want to learn and it’s bad for the profession if it hopes to attract and retain talent over other, better paid and easier jobs.
An indefinite prohibition seems a bit harsh – she clearly needs support rather than sanction.
As much as everyone will laugh (I get it), how little support is this woman getting? I mean, getting to this point, things must’ve been incredibly evident.
This happened to someone when I worked for the council. This woman was always drinking water from her water bottle. Everyone said how good it was she always drank water. Until she fell off her chair and broke her leg. She was absolutely smashed! The water of course was neat vodka.
Relatable.
Some children are the literal devil. Parents should be ashamed of themselves.
Oh look, a post about teachers, the saints who can do no wrong, on r/unitedkingdom.
Unsurprised to see some commenters making this about feral children and unhelpful parents.
Can’t we just accept there are some terrible teachers?
Who followed her into the toilet, invaded her privacy – to expose *this*?
Although clearly very unprofessional I feel for this woman, she obviously has unresolved issues.