Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Playground duty At your school, teachers must rotate once every other week with playground duty, which involves being out on the playground during lunch time and helping to monitor the activities of students on the playground. One day on your shift right before the bell is to ring to signal the end of lunch recess, a student from your class comes up to and tells you that Jon ( another student from your class) is standing over in the corner and has been throwing rocks, at both the building and in the general direction of other students. As you walk over to where Jon is you, you see that he now has a big rock his hand. You first ask Jon to put down the rock and he refuses to comply – stating "you can't make me." What is next? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I would make sure that the students are out of the way and tell one of the students to get another teacher. I would then tell John that he has one of two options, he either puts the rock down or faces the consequences. He will be in trouble either way, but the consequence will be a lot worse if he doesn't put it down.