French perspective. When I was a kid at school in the 80's, we were told to use the whole palette of past tenses and their relationships. Fast forward to toda

French perspective. When I was a kid at school in the 80's, we were told to use the whole palette of past tenses and their relationships. Fast forward to today, same age and same school and they are told to use mostly present for narration. The past tenses coordination is almost not taught anymore. I do not know whether this is a good thing or not as many of these tests are useless and basically unused. When they are used, they are usually used (and written) wrong anyway.