Jessica, it is an engineer speaking. How can we keep them accountable when you do not list their names? You are a teacher, you should know better. You get results not by lecturing the class but by talking to a person.

I checked a dictionary meaning for an asshole. It is a vulgar way of calling someone stupid. Why do you need to be discourteous? They are people as you are. Do you want to win them for your cause, or do you want to win with them by killing them? Is it any other option?

My mother insisted that we never call other people names because “yours are the names you call others.” It nicely rhymes in Polish, was easy to remember.