The conversation was so bizarre that, the following day, I went in to the school office only to be told the school was quite aware of the situation and that parents should rest assured this unstable teacher would not be returning. Nor did she. They simply shifted her to another school. There is something vitally wrong with a system where the very best seem to want out and the very worst are kept in. In this particular case, it was an English teacher who made the difference.
Teachers can still make the difference.