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[kentucker4]

I have this 15-year-old girl in one of my classes who is really giving me a headache lately. Last Friday, she refused to spit out her gum and after ten times of me telling her to I yelled at her to get out. That didn't work of course, so I sent to get my boss who is VERY strict during his lasses. He just talked to her and told me to not worry about it and let her chew gum and use her cell phone because normally she is a nice girl. So come today, and the little brat puts on her book bag with ten minutes left in class. I tell her to take it off because we are still in the middle of class. She refused and I deducted ten points from her next test, but she still got her way. I am thinking maybe I should just treat her like she doesn't exist in the future. I can already picture her refusing to take my test this Thursday. When she does, I am just going to 'rip it in half and tell her good decision.

[plus99]

is that a thundercats picture?

[spliff]

Funny, a 15 yr old girl dissed you. She obliviously doesn't respect you.The fact that the class didn't discipline her says that they probably don't respect you as well.

[Dome Vans]

[kentucker4]

[kentucker4]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Either go the politically incorrect route or go somewhere where you get support from the Korean staff. Or perhaps look at teaching adults.

You may also want to consider what is and isn't important to make a class work. Is chewing gum really such a hindrence to her or a distraction to others? On the other hand, free access to handphones is a sure way to garuntee that students will be frequently distracted. You may want to consider what are important rules to enforce (like no handphones, period) and then enforce them draconianly. The last 15-year-old girl who tried to defy me ended up in tears and her cell phone ended up in her homeroom teacher's desk for several weeks. That was one of the first weeks of the year and I haven't seen a single phone in her class since.

BTW, when your boss says she's 'a nice girl' he probably means that he thinks the cheques her parents write are nice.

[kentucker4]

[poet13]

Cell phones are eeeeaaassssyyy. I am a legend at my school. My first year, I caught a boy texting during class. I kept it for the class, and wrote him in my book with the warning that if I saw it again, I would call my mother in Canada. The very next class he was texting again. I called my mother. Woke he up too. The whole class said, "Hello XXX teachers mother!". I apologized to my mother for waking her and hung up. Well, I thought I hung up. Most of the class didnt' think I had called. A few weeks later the boy came back to me and showed me a phone bill for 30 something thousand won. He was very unhappy. I was really embarassed but I didn't let on. I just said, "Next time, don't...".

[it's full of stars]

Kentucker, what was your whole family doing in the toilet?

[Hank the Iconoclast]