TwinkTop - Jack enrolled at this school a few months ago after transferring from a college in California. He’s a confident young person, a gifted academic and a very fine sportsman. Coach Cox believes he has great promise as an athlete and has coached him intensively on a one-to-one basis over the last few weeks. Jack has always been perfectly well behaved - a model student in fact - but, in recent weeks, he’s been uncharacteristically rude to several teachers and has gotten into a few scrapes with other students. I called him into my office this afternoon to see if anything was wrong and he told me he was simply tired of being the good guy all the time. It immediately struck me that this sudden behavioural change might have more-than-a-little to do with one of his classmates, Cole. I’ve noticed that they’ve been hanging out a lot recently and Cole is definitely one of those students who can be a pretty bad influence on those around him. I learned this to my own detriment last week when he flirted with me - pretty outrageously - while I was attempting to discipline him. Now, what happens in the Principal’s office will forever stay in the Principal’s office, but let’s just say that young Cole avoided a suspension...