school's out

Finished my secondary school today with Marius. We were the only teachers left out of 5 at the beginning plus 1 full time teacher who gave up the ghost after only 3 months.
I have to say that after 12 years, it was by far the worst school by a mile. The school itself is new- 1 or 2 years old, it is a beautiful new building with all the latest facilities, there are some great kids, but no discipline, no control,no support, no direction and no pride. We taught 2 groups of form 1 students 12-13 yrs up to 16 yrs. The school insisted that we teach 1 class of 39 students an hour of phonics twice a week, the kids had no choice. The material was the most mind numbingly boring material ever. The result was kids who hated the lessons and who paid very little attention, therefore dragging out the classes and creating a battlefield between themselves and the teachers, fighting, bad language and anarchy. Although we pleaded with the school to vary the classses no respite was forecoming.We then pleaded for help with discipline.As we are only at the school for a few hours per week, we could not take an active part in follow up discipline or punishments. The school pretty much ignored us. After the first semester, we were told that the school had decided to cut some classes, all of us volunteered to give up our class. The company ended up asking who would still be willing to carry on, Marius and I!
The other class was an oral class of around 15 students whose parents paid extra for the course, this class was great and so were the kids.
I still have Primary school next week, but the worst is over. I have never said never before but this time I can honestly say that I will never go back.