Thread:Mainframebabe/@comment-31592479-20170518181230/@comment-30339728-20170523190343

Miribeth wrote: And now, your sesquipidalianism of the day:

Eschew Obfuscation!!! How I could use this with so many of my students with the tall tales, emphasized unimportant qualifiers they use to avaoid the issues/truth, and outright lies they tell me about everything. Too bad they would not understand it and would attempt to put every thing they could to avoid the consequences they deserve.

Prime example from today:  Girl hit boy in while walking in hallway because boy called her a name and she'd had it. (He does this daily - however she is no innocent). She admitted her part and received a consequence as appropriate.

Bo'dy response to repeated requests of his version of story. All I wanted him to do was admit the name calling. He kept saying I didn't call her a name in "your classroom", or I didn't call  her a name in the "cafeteria" or "at recess" and finallly, I "didn't call her an "XXXX"in the hallway today ." And then he continues to glare at her and try to leave my classroom without permission. He also rang for the office twice to put me into a position to allow him to go. Then lied to his next teacher that the office had just called my room and asked him to come up there.

End of story:  Boy gone for rest of year - suspended. He must have tried something more.