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Originally Posted by leggom
He gets if out is lesson in front of everyone when his pencil is blunt but the worry is if your ever 1 to 1 with him he could turn on you because that is the sort of person he is.
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I don't think in this day & age it is really necessary to use a knife to sharpen a pencil (but have to admit I have done it on occasion - when it was the only option) and certainly it is insensitive to brandish a knife in a situation where someone would not expect one.
Do you really know this person well enough to think he would actually use the knife offensively against another human being? Just because he's a nasty, cantankerous, loud aggressive b@stard doesn't actually mean he'd use a knife on someone.
Having said that, if you feel threatened, than in law, technically you have been threatened.
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Originally Posted by leggom
How shall I go about telling someone?
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Very carefully. You could ruin the life of an innocent man.
Or maybe print out the link I posted earlier and leave a copy for him to read. I suspect he'd soon figure it out.
Can he not be confronted about this in a public way that is 'safe'? If he's in front of the class sharpening his pencil, perhaps someone could offer him a 'proper' pencil sharpener to do the job. Maybe comment that his knife isn't very appropriate to the classroom.
Or maybe print out the link I posted earlier and leave a copy for him to read.
Now that idea may not appeal, in which case I assume your school has someone charged with pupil welfare. Talk to them. Then they can handle the issue and decide if anything more than a quiet word in his ear is required.