"Maybe I wasn't properly raised!!

[CheshireCat]

One of the advantages of teaching adults is that you don't have to focus that much on discipline and behaviour issues. Having gone through pretty much everything that could happen in an adult class, today I had to tell off a student (20+ year old) for answering with his mouth full (hereby called SS). To top it, he said me and the other teacher present in the room were overreacting. When I told him that not answering with his mouth full was basic manners, he answered "Well, maybe I wasn't properly raised!" T_T

There was a bit of a nasty discussion, too, but that was solved later by talking to the class (although SS refused to admit he was wrong :P). Just what I needed to complete a pretty awful day where the 12 year olds I teach in the morning left me almost without voice

I admit I might have sounded too stern for the adults, as I was very tired and stressed ( I apologised for that), which doesn't help to speak like a sweet lady, but if there is something that irritates me is the lack of manners, especially those ones that have been common for the past couple of centuries :P

Sorry if my English is weird, but its pretty late and this has been a very stressful day.

[MadMike]

he answered "Well, maybe I wasn't properly raised!"

He said it, not you.

[Sandiercy]

Oh, I wish I could say "Yes". Every single day it is like that for me.

SC: I shopped here many times and have spent over $150 on X product in your store.
Me: Sorry sir but we have never stocked that item.
SC: Are you calling me a liar??? :WTF:

[Rapscallion]

He's over twenty. He's old enough to know what's right and wrong from observation, not from what he's been raised like.

It's his choice to fail. You can choose to ignore or downgrade him on his performance at your leisure - legitimately of course.

Rapscallion

[XCashier]

I admit I might have sounded too stern for the adults, as I was very tired and stressed ( I apologised for that), which doesn't help to speak like a sweet lady,

If he will not act like an adult, he does not deserve to be treated like one. It's his choice.

Sorry you had to deal with that ill-mannered brat. Virtual cookies, bacon and beverage of your choice to you!

[PepperElf]

One of the advantages of teaching adults is that you don't have to focus that much on discipline and behaviour issues.

the trade off is that ... although you have to deal with less melt-downs and behavioral corrections, the ones you DO have to deal (or their immature responses) are usually worse.

[thatcrazyredhead]

When I told him that not answering with his mouth full was basic manners, he answered "Well, maybe I wasn't properly raised!"

I call bullshit. People who weren't properly raised have no idea that they weren't properly raised. They don't even realize that there's a difference, so they'd never think to use it as an excuse.

[CheshireCat]

Thank you all *hugs*

@Pepperelf: Aye, that is true. I had a really bad experience last year with a student (over 50!) who got angry at me because I told him that no, he could not take a test to skip my class, no matter how much English he knew, because there had been a chance for that and he had lost it for not coming to class (he was absent 3 of the 4 weeks of the initial course, and this happened like 6 weeks into the 12 weeks semester...). As a result, he was furious, spoke awful to me and about me, and complained to the headmaster and all the people he could. It was a good thing that he headmaster is a great person and that all his classmates plainly hated him because he was an arrogant fool :P
@thatcrazyreadhead: Completely agree.

I suspect I may be a bit biased against this guy, too, as he is the kind of men who like to flaunt and are all the time hitting on someone (not a fun kind of student to have if you are young and female, no matter your looks). :P