A supply teacher who taught a racist rhyme to a pupil - which included the vile phrase 'Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls' - has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
James Hersey, 68, taught the shocking mnemonic to a 16-year-old boy who was revising a wiring colour coding system for electronic resistors.
He taught the boy the ditty: 'Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Without.' Each word represents the first letter of the colours in the code which are; black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey and white.
When the Year 11 pupil asked for help in remembering the code, Mr Hersey wrote part of the rhyme down on a piece of paper and showed it to him.
Mr Hersey was sacked on the spot after the boy told another teacher what he had been taught.
He was found guilty of unacceptable professional misconduct because of the rhyme's 'racist and sexual content' by a disciplinary hearing of the General Teaching Council (GTC).
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Mnemonic
Mnemonic
WTF was he thinking?
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Gob, are you trying to make Americans feel better by showing how UK has a screwed up legal system, as well as a bunch of ridiculous types populating posts where they have no business? It's working. 
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Re: Mnemonic
gee, it was 'bad boys raid our young girls but violet goes wild' in HS when I learned it
Re: Mnemonic
better
be
ready
or
your
great
big
venture
goes
west
be
ready
or
your
great
big
venture
goes
west
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Mnemonic
Here's a suggestion for our American chums...
Bring Back Reagan Or Your Great Big Vagina George W
Bring Back Reagan Or Your Great Big Vagina George W
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: Mnemonic
He probably learned that mnemonic 50 years ago and has been repeating it silently to himself ever since then. So after decades of not saying it out loud he had 1 lapse and it cost him his job. I don't think that recalling the mnemonic proves he is a racist just foolish.
Seems a little harsh.
yrs,
rubato
Seems a little harsh.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Mnemonic
Apparently he wasn't....WTF was he thinking?
I assume that a "supply teacher" is what we here in the US would call a "shop teacher"?
Re: Mnemonic
A supply teacher is a substitute teacher.
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Re: Mnemonic
I learned it as bad boys which works just as well. Mnemonic work best when they rhyme are outrages, ridicules, or funny.
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