Bad-a** Light-flippers !@#$%^&*

In my adventures of subbing for music classes I have come across a couple of classes with students who seem to think that flipping off the lights at the end of class somehow makes them hard core rebellious children. My solution is easy: put masking tape over the lights (tape the heck out of it!) and use a dry-erase marker to color all over the tape. It is non-damaging to the wall, and no one will touch it because they don’t want ink on their hands (stole this idea from fire alarms). The ink from dry-erase markers will stay damp so you can do a check of hands for ink if necessary, and even though the tape comes off relatively easily, it’s not very quick to get off and it makes enough noise so that you’d hear it. And no one will “accidentally” flip off the lights. It also has the added benefit of making the students think you’re either really smart or just plain crazy.