Rath on 05 April 2011
My best ever teacher was for latin. Latin class sizes always shrunk dramatically by 7th form (down from 30-40 to 5-7) and she would recognize the people who actually tried hard and wanted to do well early on, and really give those people more of her time. People who arsed about ended up getting bad marks.
Worst teacher was an arsehole who tried to be 'cool', in doing so he would join up with the 'cool' kids and pick on a student in the class who was not in the 'cool' group. He was a small markedly unpopular asian kid (and in NZ there is a bit of racism towards asians in any case..) and the last thing the poor bloke needed was a teacher acting like an arsehole to him as well.
