Perceptions...a lesson

Last week I made a comment to a student that was not taken in the manner I intended it. Most of the time teenagers react well to sarcasm, but his particular individual did not. I apologized immediately and I thought the matter over. Lesson learned. I don't have the relationship with this group that I had at my old school. Today, the situation reared it's ugly head again when I had to consequence this student for an rule infraction. The phone call to his mother was enlightening in several ways. So, the moral of this story. Curb my tongue, at least until the situation has become much more familiar.