Secret Teacher: Is it part of a teacher's job to stop a student going to a party?

Should we limit our scope to the teaching of our subjects? Or should we go further, the extra mile or whatever you want to call it?

A friend heard one of her students, her most challenging student, openly discussing a party he was planning to attend before the holidays. He’d described it as ‘huge'. ‘Epic.’

‘What do you think I should do?’ My teacher friend Orla asks me. The steam of her coffee is fogging up her glasses. Her mask hangs below her chin like an empty hammock.

‘I don’t know,’ is all I can manage.