It worked

I decided to deal with Mr. Hubris (my arrogant studen) in this manner.

After reading his rude, crude, socially unacceptable, misogynistic, hedonistic story, I thought he wants to shock me. So I decided to not address the rude element and to rip into the story for its immature writing, lack of plot, weak setting, lack of rising action, lack of extended metaphor, and all that other stuff. I wrote, "T, this is a very ridiculous attempt at writing about AIDS as a global issue. It is silly and lacks the depth of a ninth grader at this school. It lacks a setting, plot is weak, and is an F. However, if you would like a better grade, you have until Monday (just like the rest of the class) to come up with a draft and sketch for your story. Also, since you have addressed AIDS in such a weak way, you will write the story about global warming." Sincerely, My name."

This is also the same kid who decided to write a comment with specific innuendos in our class blog. That time, I came in and said, "one more rude entry, and I will close the blog. Period." Also, my blog is great because the site I use gives you this power of omniscience where you can delete their entries if they are rude. So I deleted his.

When he came in, I didn't react, it was business as usual. After class, I called him over and went over the story. I told him it was also a rude story and he said, "what do you mean" and I said nothing, I handed back the story and told him "one more piece of writing like this and mom will be joining you in my class for the whole period. Period." His face went pale. The mom in me felt pleased.