Teasing students

[usexpat]

Taishu is a 7th grade Japanese student with really good English and a more western attitude. He sorta rudely corrected me when I mispronounced his name. Now, I have SLAUGHTERED the pronounciation of students names before, but no one really rudely corrects me. Anyhoo, after Taishu corrected me a little rudely and wasn't very patient with my

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[sedjmier]

You should start pretending to sneeze on him, then tell him if he apologizes for being so rude to you in pronunciation of names you aren't familiar with then you'll stop sneezing on him and calling him tissue. This could be a great opportunity to express the desire for politeness in your classrooms, set an example, and a chance at an odd sort of backfire that could result in tissue becoming popular. But as I don't know chinese/japanese culture of students in that grade range I cannot predict the true outcome, but it'd be a fun sociological experiment.