I want to state this publicly just to clarify a misunderstanding.  I didn't mean that his lifestyle or looks should disqualify him from teaching, nor do I disrespect people for their opinions.  I read his test lines, though, and while his beliefs are his own in his private life, political posturing belongs outside the classroom as much as it does in the BiM forum.  That is all I meant.  I hope we are reconciled.  :>

It's cool that this worked out.  I feel strongly on education because I once had a college sociology professor who not only was very one-sided in her lectures, but she was bigoted, very hostile toward Catholics.  I also had a sixth-grade teacher that made the class write poetry mocking President Reagan, and we accepted the assignment and never realized that we could question it because we were the students.  All woefully inappropriate, and pretty disgraceful.  And I didn't mean "children" in a pejorotive sense; I just meant that students generally trust what teachers say, because they're teachers.  That gives them a responsibility to not pass off opinions as facts.  I'm glad that Fabrice is not exactly like your teacher.  It's important, when basing characters off real life, to make them NOT the same guy, because then a lot of awkward issues can arise.