by adam » Sat 21 Jan, 2017 2:58 pm
I once confiscated a lighter from a student in a lesson - I'm more of a 'one more chance' kind of teacher with non-disruptive stuff but he just wound't put it away - and at the end of the lesson I declined to give it back to him, partly to prove a point but largely because we'd had two fires in the previous month started by students (which is dreadful but sounds worse, it's the only (two) times such a thing has happened in my 17+ years there). He exploded in crossness, swore a lot, picked up a chair and threatened to throw it at me and generally was a bit peeved. Not sure how but I got us out into the corridor and someone else took him off. I saw him about fifteen minutes later and he greeted me with a very glum 'I'm very sorry sir' which was fine, I'd known him for five years and he was okay. 'What happened' I asked - "I'm going to be out for the rest of the week." Did they give you your lighter back? "No, but I went in the food room and lit my cigarette off the cooker so that's okay." I couldn't not laugh.
I once confiscated a lighter from a student in a lesson - I'm more of a 'one more chance' kind of teacher with non-disruptive stuff but he just wound't put it away - and at the end of the lesson I declined to give it back to him, partly to prove a point but largely because we'd had two fires in the previous month started by students (which is dreadful but sounds worse, it's the only (two) times such a thing has happened in my 17+ years there). He exploded in crossness, swore a lot, picked up a chair and threatened to throw it at me and generally was a bit peeved. Not sure how but I got us out into the corridor and someone else took him off. I saw him about fifteen minutes later and he greeted me with a very glum 'I'm very sorry sir' which was fine, I'd known him for five years and he was okay. 'What happened' I asked - "I'm going to be out for the rest of the week." Did they give you your lighter back? "No, but I went in the food room and lit my cigarette off the cooker so that's okay." I couldn't not laugh.