Oops, Wrong Window
One of my junior high students IM'ed me with this: "Well, you can just **** my ****"... only this person didn't use stars, they were requesting a pretty perverse sexual encounter.
I paused for a moment, taken quite by surprise. I started typing and backspaced a few times before recieving the next message: "Oops, wrong window, sry."
How do you respond to that? Does the fact that I'm this person's teacher change anything?
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19 July 20062. LaRosa Johnson:
wow... that must have been a surprise... but yeah, considering you're his teacher, i'd definitely address it and ask why he was using such language. if it was a peer, i probably wouldn't give it a second thought and just close the window (majority of my friends don't use that kinda language though).
but the more i think about it... i'm not sure how i'd respond, if at all...
sidenote: still waiting for the typekey login for this site... and the PHP search @ MTweak
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19 July 20063. Arvind Satyanarayan:
[this is hilarious]
19 July 20064. jscottkill:
Forward the txt to his mom.
19 July 20065. Dad:
Sounds like a divine appointment to me. (Gal. 6:1)
29 July 20066. Jesse Gardner:
I agree completely dad! It ended up being an awesome opportunity to help him grow!
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19 July 20061. dramaturge:
I am constantly afraid of doing something like that--not necessarily that exact thing, but typing a response in the wrong window that could lead to embarrassment. In this instance, I probably would have responded with a slightly sarcastic statement about them needing their mouth washed or something. You know, enough to express that the remark was inapproriate under any circumstances, but in a way that it would be lighthearted not reprimandory. A lot depends on the way you usually approach your students. I tend to be sarcastic and blunt, so for me to repsond that way would be okay. Kids generally view and IM conversation the same as a face-to-face conversation, so how would you have dealt with it had the JrH student and the other friend been in the same room with you? I do think that being a teacher puts a certain amount of responsibility to at least nudge them about inappropriate language. Being outside of school removes it from the realm of the disciplinary, but it still could be addressed in a casual way. Those are my $0.23.