not another one!!

**imported_elp6n** · June 1st, 2007, 10:16 AM

I've just never understood how grown adults can find children attractive that way. (I know I know, men ogle 17 year old girls all the time, but still they're children!)

**jtw61194** · June 1st, 2007, 10:33 AM

Hit it right on the head! It is wrong...PERIOD! As a teacher, I have a huge issue with this subject. To be effective, you have to win the trust of your students. That means that you have to show that you care for them as people as much as you care about them as students. I think we've all heard the slogan, "We love children!", and that has to be true. You have to love your students, no matter what their academic or social standing is. With that being said, you cannot stray too far beyond the fact that being a teacher is a profession. It is a job. It does become a lifestyle, but it is primarily a way to pay bills. I'm afraid that there are too many teachers that take the de facto parent thing or the adult friend/mentor thing too far. This type of incident makes us all look bad and makes skeptics out of everybody. People start questioning motives more and they should.

**neutral88** · June 1st, 2007, 10:51 AM

I'm like some others, I think it is just becomming a problem but it has been goin on forever...And it seems like the ones who are ok with it can't see why everyone else is not...I know Da Cove had an issue like this before, not gonna say the girls name, for obvious reasons...But her parents thought it was ok and everything, he walked her to class, ect., ect. The sad part in his situation is he had a wife at home, and the girl played volleyball, and the teacher/coach's wife coached at Twin Springs...fun times at the ball game!!!

**retiredteach** · June 1st, 2007, 11:05 AM

She is not listed on the AHS website. Have they already taken her off? I too know that this has been happening for a long time. I graduated from Powell Valley in 1964, and there were some situations occuring then. One of them, a coach, was forced to leave.

**imported_elp6n** · June 1st, 2007, 11:09 AM

I know of a case at CHS, where the student and teacher are now married. (I'm a little fuzzy as to whether he's still a teacher)

Vulnerable students can fall for teachers because they're grown, "mature", a father/mother figure or leader, blah blah blah.

However, it's up to the adults in the picture to keep the situation appropriate in these cases. They shouldn't be working with kids if they can't control themselves.

And sometimes you have the freaks who just like the children the wrong way.

Perhaps a psych evaluation before every hire would be in order [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]