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A tough situation
By Misty

That is unusual. You will have to remember that as a teacher with such little home support that you can only do what YOU can do. I would sit him/her down privately and have that little honesty discussion. Tell him that
if you cannot build trust that this will be a rough year for him her. I would try to get the child on my side by maybe sharing a time when I was dishonest as a child and it didn't work out. Also let him know that he is not really fooling you, and that he probably looks silly to his classmates. If I really had trouble I might get the parent or guardian to sign a form allowing me to tape

their child( I wouldn't say that it was specifically for this reason---you have to have a tape for National Board, etc. which is not lying because you can use stuff from like three years back) Any way I would discreetly tape the child, and then privately let him see how bad it looks. I try to be a problems solver, so I would do everything I could to get the child to change this behavior, BUT at some point you may have to let it go and refer him to the counselor/princiipal.