I think that statement could be attached to many of the students that I have in my classes. So many of them are completely different in their behavior and actions, when their peers are not present.
For example, I had a young woman last year that had no problem talking back to me or disturbing my class. I am 6’4″ 220, she is 4’10″ 90lbs. When I took her to call her mother after class, the tears streamed down her face. Not the yelling and uncontrollable sobbing that you may get from overdramatic kids, just tears down the face, non-stop. The girl who had been such a show off and so “tough” in front of her peers was now exactly what she actually was: a typical teenage girl.
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