The retired coach who mans our after school detention and night school programs boasted to me today that he doesn’t take any crap in there. I’d stopped by to drop off some work for a student whose parents had arranged with the principal for him to serve time until he got his work caught up.
“They drop a pencil on the floor,” he said, “I tell them to pick it up. And then I tell them if they drop it again, they’re going to pick it up with their teeth.”