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JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

Ah, summer is here. The days are getting warmer .... and my high school students are trying to put their makeup on in my class. Not on my watch you don't. Twisted Evil

Confiscated three makeup cases this evening. Twisted Evil

If it's distracting from the lesson, into my desk draw it goes. Unless it's alive, and then I give it to the receptionist to watch over.
Was thinking back on some of the interesting things I've confiscated over last few months.

a hamster

a pair of nun chucks

a 15cm metal shank being used as a pencil sharpner..... by a 6 year old

a dead snake

countless cell-phones

countless makeup cases and combs

Anyone else have some interesting stories about stuff they've impounded?

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Last week, I impounded one of my student's little brother...

Apparently, the parents were trying to pull a fast one on me and get their kid free English classes. But that ain't flying with me when I'm already teaching double classes and have 12 kids using 4 different books in one room. So I picked him up, carried him down to the office, and deposited him on the chair with a box of crayons and some paper.

peppermint · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 10:27 am Post subject:

screwdrivers- from a kid in grade 4, coulda had a mouse, but told them to take it outside.( they threw it out the window)

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

I have a number of mirrors, but one is this really large, really pink one with a stand. It's not a hand mirror and one of my students thought she could get away with using it in my class to put on makeup, which is so not allowed in school, either. Rolling Eyes

Seems to be a real PIT.

discostar23 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Location: getting the hell out of dodge

A Toy switchblade (it even had a pink handle) Shocked

i tried to get it away from the kid but she wouldn't let me have it

TJ · Joined: 10 Mar 2003

Two years ago when I was teaching at a hagwan a student brought a toy pistol to class. The first I knew about it was when he pointed it at me. It was so realistic that I nearly had a heart attack.

I've done my military training and have owned and used guns for many years so I should not have been fooled but this one was amazing. It was only when I had it in my (trembling) hands that I could tell it was a fake.

Needless to say it was immediately confiscated. I gave it back at the end of the class with strict instructions that he would loose it permanently if it ever came into my class room again