Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Tattle Tailors I am currently in my K-5 internship where I have students constantly approaching me to essentially "tattle" on their other classmates. Examples include "he tripped me", "she threw something at me", "Robert stole me pencil", among others. How do I decrease the amount of "tattling" in my classroom? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think that having a mini lesson to the class about behaving appropriately is a great idea. Let the students know that they absolutely should come to the teacher if they are ever being touched or harmed, but to just ignore things that honestly aren't hurting them. If they come up to you tattling, don't pay them much mind. First ask "is anyone hurt?", then "were any hurtful words used?", if the answer for both is no, just tell your student to be the bigger person and brush it off.