not worth battling over

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not worth battling over
By Carolyn

There are things that you should be concerned over, and things that you should just let go. This is one of them. I believe that any consequence should fit the crime, but I would carefully think of the consequences for YOU
before picking that consequence. You don't want the parent to appear the next day at your principal's office with you on the spot.
If I had been in that situation, I would have either ignored the ink and had the parents make the child wash it off, or I might have privately asked the child to go and wash it off. You don't want to draw attention to the child by making it public in

your classroom. Doing that might encourage some others to imitate the behavior or make the kid look "cool" to his classmates. If the child goes home with ink on himself, then let the parent tell him he should have been doing his classwork, not writing on himself with ink.