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jeffinflorida



Joined: 22 Dec 2004
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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:29 pm    Post subject: Should I give them back...? Reply with quote

So I work in this horrible high school. It blows chunks and my students are the pits.

I told them more than a few times don't play handheld video games, mp3, or with their phones in my class.

The school policy is that they are absolutely forbidden.

My class has the laziest bunch of spoiled kids in the whole school.

So far I have collected a PSP and an NDS (nintendo).

I told the students that if they want them back they have to go ask the ass't headmaster and he has to tell me to give them back.

They are terrified of this guy and have not spoke to him.

The boy who lost his PSP had to do an IELTS speaking test and I was the testor. After the exam I asked him why he hasn't asked me for his PSP back. He replied that I notified the class that I would take the games if a student was caught and he knew that and I caught him... So maybe he will just buy a new one...

The kid who lost the NDS has asked me several times but I just tell him to go see the ass't headmaster and he won't so I didn't give it back.

School will finish for me soon - only 2 more classes then I am out of there...

Do I give the little peckerheads their games back?

My gf is having a great time playing the NDS... and the PSP sits on my desk.

Your input?
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Orrin



Joined: 02 Apr 2005
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Location: Zhuhai, China

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Give them to the headmaster. Let him deal with it.
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kungfucowboy83



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tell them they have until the end of the year to have their parents come pick them up so you can explain to the parents why you confiscated them. and that if the parents don't come you will assume they don't want them anymore.

that's what i have started doing with stuff i'e confiscated this year, we'll see how it works.

to cover your behind keep them until after you get all your pay and release letter before selling them Very Happy . if the school makes an issue about it just say you were trying to enforce the rules and give the things to the headmaster if he wants. but that is really unlikely as the kids will not want to tell their parents they were playing video games in class
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arioch36



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Parents headmaster both good. Or, tell the students the parent must come to get them, and all the students wo never dare tell their parents, their stuff, when you are ready to leve, give to the heamaster
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jeffinflorida



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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have 2 classes left, the school has already paid me in full all that is owed.

If my students were nicer / better students it would not be an issue but they are HORRIBLE little devils...

My plan... Their rich parents can buy them new toys... I don't need a PSP or NDS ( my kids each have their own) but its the principle.

If the headmaster tells me to return them then I will...
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Mei Sheng



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're a tough one Jeff.

"Balls said the Queen...."

I'm still looking for a real eggroll.

Paul says - "give them back".

Pisser.

Who said a prophet can't come from Galilee?
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Trish Flurman



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't return them = you should be arrested for theft
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killian



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Location: fairmont city, illinois, USA

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

give them back.

while i can appreciate your side ...

what do you think of those in authority using institutionalized power to seize possessions of those entrusted to them? back home we call such tyranny.
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jeffinflorida



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Location: "I'm too proud to beg and too lazy to work" Uncle Fester, The Addams Family season two

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have not decided what to do...

Arrested for theft???? hahahahah the rules state no electronic devices in the classrooms and the students know it.

Most likely will give to the ass't headmaster on the way out the door with my apartment keys.
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kungfucowboy83



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Don't return them = you should be arrested for theft


so then i guess you would not allow any athourity to confiscate prohibited items?

Quote:
what do you think of those in authority using institutionalized power to seize possessions of those entrusted to them? back home we call such tyranny


what country are you from? in most places we call it the government.
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killian



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just today i took a pair of nunchuks away from a student. i gave them to his homeroom teacher in her office right after class.

who do you think can "bring the rain" in this case, the foreign teacher or the one he sees everyday?

ps- i know of no rules in my school prohibiting nunchuks.
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Mei Sheng



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's interesting, I thought school was over.

Toss them in the river Jeff.

Now you have me thinking - let me go check if my keys are still here.

Pablo
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Mei Sheng



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"My class has the laziest bunch of spoiled kids in the whole school."

Birds of the feather flock together.
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patsy



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

keep all the items and keep your apartment key too.
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william wallace



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If possible, keep them.
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