I once got very angry with the Basketball Girls CCA that I had to manage in the beginning years of my teaching career. They were a mutinous bunch. One of them told me: “我只听教练的话.” (I only listen to coach) There was one training when the coach was absent. A large segment of them went to eat prata at the coffeeshop outside the school.
The captain, who was a very good scorer, was headstrong and defiant.
Once, I relayed an instruction from my colleague and the young lady said scornfully: “Ask him to go and die.” My colleague (a male PE teacher) was hated by the girls.
That was the last straw. I was livid. If even the captain was mutinous, how can the army function?
The next day, I initiated formal disciplinary proceedings against her. In that school, the DM was very powerful. The captain folded and started to beg for mercy. She believed that a a disciplinary record might influence her post/secondary education. I did not relent.
As for the rest of the team, I called for a meeting and roasted them. I said I was going to sack all of them from the club and would be very happy if they gave me an excuse to fire them. No one dared to talk back.
I was serious. I actually consulted the CCA HOD to ask about dismantling the club. He said it could not be done, but he meant that it could not be dismantled on my terms. I was but an ordinary teacher.
About a year later, the club was discontinued because it just wasn’t winning games. That is a story for another time.