Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Students do not bring pencils and forget to return when I loan them. Our school policy (and district+state) requires that when students do not bring pencils, teachers are required to supply. In fact, in our state it's against the law NOT to supply a pencil in class if a pencil is needed to do the work. I am fine with this rule. However, I have couple of students who forget to bring pencils frequently and ask for a new one each time. They seem to lose them all the time. Do you have this problem? How do you deal with it? Any thoughts? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I take a slightly different approach. With each of my pencils I tape a large flag like piece of paper that says "I love Justin Bieber" on it. I get my pencils back everyday. You can argue that it may be embarrassing for the student, but beggars can't be choosers when it comes to pencils.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) No The suggested solution is relevant to the case No The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement No The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue No The suggested solution is original No Comments: I don't think an embarrassing price of paper has to be the solution, there cab be posutive insensitive Rated On: October 14, 2022 8:36 pm Rated By: TyNede