Writer's Block: Life's lessons

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Not every school labels their exercise books the same way. If you find that one keen new student has charged ahead and labelled theirs in a way other than the one you were dictating, because they're one of the few who has done this subject before and they think they know what they're doing, tell them they're wrong and that they'll have to start again. Do not scream at them, put them in detention, and hold them back after the lesson while you tell them what a useless wad of scum they are to the point that they cause themself permanent physical harm in a doomed attempt to not cry. Should you somehow reach this point anyway, the correct response to seeing that an 11 year old has torn the skin on their thumb open with their index fingernail by repeatedly scraping it over the course of 5 minutes is not to toss them a tissue and carry on.

And you wonder why I didn't do French GCSE or choose to spend my after school time learning Latin from you.