Student taking pictures of me for snapchat against my wishes.

[Anonymous]

You’re a sub. The kids know that. They will take advantage of any perceived weakness. As a veteran teacher, I would have taken the phone. (Not snatched. Simply asked for it.) You can’t undo the snap. But you can take the phone to the office and let admin decide how to move forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re a sub. The kids know that. They will take advantage of any perceived weakness. As a veteran teacher, I would have taken the phone. (Not snatched. Simply asked for it.) You can’t undo the snap. But you can take the phone to the office and let admin decide how to move forward.

In my district we cannot confiscate phones. We have to call admin and they are usually busy dealing with other misbehaving students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here - woah not sure why this thread got bumped up from almost 5 years ago.

Suffice to say I don’t sub/teach anymore. It was for a short period of my life.

I can only imagine things being so much worse these days especially post covid. Clearly this being bumped means others have had issues also with this.

Anyways, to the posters saying : “just call her creepy” , yeah that would’ve worked for sure but the student was a poc girl in a majority white school and I didn’t want to roast her like that in front of her classmates, especially since I was an early 30s male teacher at that time. i Was concerned how that might affect her/make her feel. If it was a basic white girl, I would’ve been more assertive in calling her creepy..

I actually ran into said former student last year at our local coffee shop and she is in her senior year in college now and she sat down at the table I was at and chatted for 5 mins about college/life. Before she got up to leave she said she had a crush on me in hs and apologized for being an a-hole about taking pictures.

Gld it all worked out. And agree: the POC students are off limits when it comes to disciplining them. You’ll lose your job.