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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think she hates you.  Not if she has requested you three times.  Only a masochist would deliberately be around someone they hate that much.

I'm with those who say she is experimenting with defying authority and playing the tough nasty girl in front of her friends.

I'm also with those who suggest letting her know you heard what she said; 90% likely she gets flushed with embarrassment when she learns that.  It's not eavesdropping, btw, if you heard it accidentally.

You're a teacher. This is a teaching opportunity.  A great opportunity, actually, for her to learn what happens when she acts this way.  She looks mean and immature, and causes others to feel hurt and angry.  Not a good idea, whether we're talking about peers or authority figures.

Purely for what it's worth I had a math teacher who we used to imitate speaking as well as his idiosyncratic way of teaching. And you know what?  We loved the guy.  He was a a fine teacher, actually.  I would have been horrified if he ever heard me, but I never hated him.  It was a way of bonding with peers about the common experience of being in his class.  Immature and thoughtless, to be sure, but not motivated by malice.[/quote]

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