Witchcraft

During Amber's first year of teaching, she was regularly assigned to bike rack duty after school. She found it to be an exciting post because that's where all of the drama occurred including when someone would lock two bikes together by accident. One day, Amber witnessed a kid bullying another kid by pushing repeatedly. Amber tried to intervene, but the kid, a punk middle schooler, challenged her authority. In an attempt to help, a few of her students warned the bully to "Watch out! Ms. [Amber] is a witch!" Amber chimed in, "That's right, I'm a witch, and if you push him again, I'll make your hand fall off."

Fast forward to later when said punk kid went home and cried to his mom that he thought Ms. [Amber] was a witch and put a spell on him to make a hand fall off. So the mom called into the school and the counselor had to facilitate a meeting between her and the kid. Being a punk, the kid did not actually believe that Amber was a witch; the kid's true motives were to get her in trouble. So Amber had to apologize to the phony kid and then even had to promise that she was not really a witch and that the kid's hand would not be falling off.