Quote Originally Posted by Bartrim View Post
My school doesn't do background checks but my instructor has booted people for thuggish behaviour.
Most excellent.
Whether a school chooses to modify curriculum or outright expel the student, the important thing is that the school is doing something to address the issue of having a thug in the class. It really bugs me that there are so many schools out there that do nothing about it. Or even worse, when the master himself is a bully/thug (yes... I have seen this too at two different schools ).

Quote Originally Posted by Bartrim View Post
I've never modified a class I've taught due to aggressive behaviour but I have modified individual student curriculum twice. One was an autistic teenager who was quite talented once I broke the moves down for him and the other was (working with a health retreat) for a man going from 330kg to 110kg. There is a documentary being made on his journey. I don't know if I have a cameo in it but I am proud to have been part of it
That is freaking fantastic. This shows that you are treating your students as individuals and are willing to customise your teaching to cater for your students' individual needs, as a teacher should! One of my pet peeves about a lot of martial arts "teachers" is how they simply treat all students the same, which is not what a proper teacher does. Good teaching should be more student-centred, but I find a lot of MA schools are too teacher-centred.