[James]

"Hey teacher, leave them kids alone!"

I dropped French after the second year of secondary school because of a hyper-strict teacher - a complete dictator. I had other strict teachers, but this one never said anything nice about anything, ever.

Looking back on it I got the impression that she didn't like children at all, or teaching, and felt she should be doing something else. Maybe she was different with the older pupils, I don't know.

Mind you, you'd have to pay me a lot of money to teach in a school.

I took Latin instead of French, by the way. Loved it!