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Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

I have a student by the name of Cole who has started to become a troublemaker. I've graded his tests, and he's easily the smartest kid at the Hagwon. I think that he's just bored and hitting the jacka$$ age.

A few days ago, he had his hand pointed out like a gun and had a rubber band wrapped around it. He wasn't paying attention and was pointing his gun around at different objects in the room. As soon as I came up to him, he points it right in my face. So I grab his hand so that he couldn't shoot it, then I lifted the rubber band up a few inches and let it snap against his skin. The other kids laugh, and he's howls in pain. (Either it did hurt; he's being a wimp, or he's exaggerating the pain for attention.)

Would you have done the same thing to him?

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

depends what "a few inches" is...I'd have raised it, maybe an inch or two.....
OR I would have taken it.
I doubt I would have done what you did (in order to hurt him...or make a point).

As for the howl, I'm sure it didn't feel good.

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Bully.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

I would have only taken it.

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

I would've pulled out my bigger and meaner rubberband gun and pointed at him or a sling-shot.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

It was probably the shock more than anything which caused him to react like he did.

I would never do that to a student. I don't even let my kids punch each other in class.

Why didn't you just give him like two warnings and then confiscate the thing?

ilovebdt

sheba · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Here there and everywhere!

I warn them only once with those things and If I even see it out on the desk after the warning I take it and dont give it back. One time a kid wasn't paying attention and it went off and hit me in the face.... he was as mortified as I was angry. He almost cried. But since then, zero tolerance!

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

When my student was pointing his rubberband round the room, I did warn him. I told him a few times, actually. Then I stood right next to him and gave him "the stare." That's when he looked at me and then aimed it right in my face. (About one foot away.)

I mentioned the story to my coworker, and he said that he would have done the same thing. The day before, a kid threw a pencil at my coworker's face. He picked up the pencil and broke it in half.

babtangee · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject:

I've broken numerous pencils and flick plenty of kids' rubber bands back on them. No big deal. They usually don't give you the opportunity twice.

poet13 · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject:

If there had been a mark on the skin a few minutes later, then I would think it was too hard/high. Otherwise, I have done exactly the same thing. Last summer my twelve year old boys and I had some awesome rubber band fights, chasing each other around snapping each other with them. Then I came to school with a rubber band an inch or so wide and easily a foot across Twisted Evil

. They didn't want to play anymore.....ha ha ha

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

You should have pulled out your big stick and bludgeoned into submission.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

he crossed the line when he pointed it at you.

but i've found the boys at my high school are drama queens when it comes to punishments. they'll scream in agony over a tap on the wrist.

i'm not sure what i would have done, really. but he sounds like a little bastard.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject:

have you considered changing his name to Tony?

frankly speaking · Joined: 23 Oct 2005

Sounds like you act more like a student than a teacher. In all of my years at school, I never once had a teacher seek revenge or physical punishment upon me. I wasn't always a good student. In fact I was a big pain but my teachers never did it back to me.

As they say, an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

My suggestion is not to do anything like that again. If by accident you go to far the parents do have a right to sue you and the school.

One time, I grabbed a kid by the jacket. He was running into the street without looking and a car almost hit him. I pulled him back just in time. Eventhough I was trying to protect the child, the director told me never to grab a kid. I told him that I wouldn't but if a child ever got hit by a car than he had to be responsible and not I.

Darkness · Joined: 12 Oct 2006