Subj : keeping notes
To   : Dallas Hinton
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Jan 02 2020 18:10:38

On 31/12/2019 6:10 a.m., Dallas Hinton : August Abolins wrote:

 AA>> I'd upgrade the phrase and call kids like that "you little
 AA>> infernal obstreperous porkers" <G>

 DH> I might well have thought that, but that phrase crosses the
 DH> boundary into insulting/rude, which wouldn't be appropriate in
 DH> the context.

Hi Dallas!

Well.. one could always say that with a little smile, or hand out cookies and 
candies for the kids that do settle down and behave.  <G>

But I hear stories from teachers that kids who launch accusations of abuse from 
teachers who in so much as touch them on the shoulder.

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