"See you tomorrow, Miss," and, "Have a nice day, Mrs. Thompson," or, "Bye, bye Miss," were just some of the pleasant greetings reverberating around the rapidly-emptying classroom as the more civilised pupils of 2A shuffled out of the door to their next class. These nice, innocent thoughts were quite contrary to the ones running around in my head as I waited for 4B to take their places for the last class of the day.Mine we...

I stood up and moved to the front of the class. After clapping my hands a couple of times and clearing my throat very loudly, the attention of 4B, St Mary's High School, was finally mine."Okay, boys and girls, before you all go, I'd like once again to thank Mr. Harrison for taking the lesson and you lot for not making things too difficult for him, and we'll look forward to seeing him next week." Throughout the classroom f...