Somehow, I’m not sure that a menage would help things.
UPDATE:
They got an official warning and have to sit apart now. The Director also said that he would report any further misbehaviour to their respective parents;I suspect that is more of a threat then something he could actually do
Thanks to dopers and while we are at it, I have to say, this one was NOT in the manual.
That’s great news! I’m glad the Director is supporting you on this. But, I have to ask, how old are these students? I can’t imagine anyone in law school being threatened with a parental intervention. Aren’t they too old for that approach?
I suppose there’s a chance that mom and dad are still paying… in which case letting them know that their little John and Suzie are letting them spend their hard-earned and hard-saved money on law school while they ignore lectures and make out in public is possibly a big enough threat to get them to stop.
Sorry, I didn’t read the whole thread.
I wouldn’t make a point of embarrassing them, but I would address them by their last names and direct one of them to move to another part of the class without any explanation and in a completely respectful, unemotional, nonjudgmental, deadpan way, to wit: “Mr. Jones, please come and sit here in the front row.” As soon as Mr. Jones is seated, ask him an involved question about whatever point you were just lecturing on. Again, not to embarrass him, but to engage him in the class. As the teacher, you have all the power (but only if the students allow it), so don’t ever abuse it by embarrassing anyone. That will bite you in the ass one day for sure.
Many years ago, at the age of 22, I was a graduate teaching assistant and taught freshmen who were only about four years younger than me. Yikes. One of the things I did to establish distance was to address them as Mr. ___ and Miss ___.
What exactly were they doing?
In most countries, law school is not a graduate program, or, at least it begins with a Bachelor’s of Law in some manner. I think AK84 is from Pakistan? Possible these students are 17, or 18+ but still young enough to not want their parents to know they were engaged in sexual behaviors, much less at school.
Early to mid twenties. I would think like mnemosyne got it right. Although I did not go to this particular school as a student, my own had a policy that they could inform your Financial sponsor (meaning the person who was paying your tution and was not you) of any infractions and they were IIRC obligated to do so in one or two cases. I suppose the parents are the financial sponsors here. Otherwise, I can’t be certain they even have the right, unless the Director meant that he would tell them informally and get parental disapproval?
In Pakistan Law School is post grad as well. These students were however, not Pakistani (Jordanian girl and Emirati boy) and the school although based in Pakistan, does the (or at least this class did) the [London University LLM](http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/prospective_students/postgraduate/laws/index.shtml\) and the Director is French.