“Please, not the 4th B!” : why it’s always “class from hell” for teachers

There is the White Lady, the Loch Ness Monster, and… the 4th B. Urban legend among urban legends, a kind of monster that we talk about trembling in the teachers’ rooms: a class, always the same, where would be systematically brought together the worst students of the school. Promise of noisy afternoons, of sanctions without effect, of courses masked by the heckling.