When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: 'To help us in real life.'

The clerical work is par for the course. 'Keep on file in numerical order' means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. 'Let it be a challenge t…

The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors and metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (t…

I don't allow anyone to talk to me like that. So you're lucky - you're a teacher.