One teacher I had would write all our names on bits of card at the beginning of term. Behind his desk, on the shelf were two pots. He put the cards in one pot and drew them out at random for jobs etc. The 'used' name went into the other pot until he ran out of names. Then he'd start again. Made a much fairer way of doing things... not unlike my Secret Santa method.

Same teacher single handedly provided a tobacco tin for every child in his class to put their wax crayons in for about 14 years.... the scent of Old Holborn tobacco mixed with wax crayons makes me want to sit on the floor and read 'Stig of the Dump'.

LTS