That was the thinking post WWII. Now we've gone so far in the other direction that it takes them 40 plus years to grow up.
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I don''t know. I see kids having to grow up very fast these days. Much faster than when I was a youngster. Perhaps kids don;t have to take on some of the chores and responsibilities early on that they did many years ago.. But its a changing world and there are a lot of other demands upon children that requires them to "grow up and understand" much earlier on than when I was a kid.
"Now we've gone so far in the other direction that it takes them 40 plus years to grow up."
Sounds like QRZ, Peter Panadapter in Never Never Land.
Years ago I took a great deal of severe abuse and even threats for falling in love with a rather young good looking. female teacher. No, I was not a minor nor was she my teacher. It was strictly a legitimate relationship between two legal adults and there was nothing involving any sort of teacher/student or professional relationship. It's just that some people I knew hated teachers and chose to be intimidating and threatening.in order to make us upset and make me feel guilty for showing affection for a teacher.
Today's teacher feature:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...tudentsex.html
All went well... until things got a little... rough...
What smells about most sex offense cases is they wait years to make accusation and as soon as word gets out there's a sea of hands and a chorus of me too. Then there's hypnotic regression, that's when it really gets muddy.
Well, at least that last teacher feature looks doable.
Yeah, true as quoted from the above post...
Uh from 2008 to 2010 and only now does he come forward on this ??Quote:
Cortez was arrested after an 18-year-old youth went to the police station last week and reported that he had a sexual relationship with her from 2008 to 2010 while he was a student at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where Cortez taught Spanish, Lopez said.
But which? The me too chorus, the muddy bits, the doable or all of the above? Ah, make it nekkid mud wrestling and you've got it... giggity giggity giggity!
Submitted for your approval...
On the other side of the coin was Data, fully functional with Tasha Yar. Picture him with 7 of 9, "Do you want to copulate?" (The look on Kim's face was priceless!)
It doesn't matter. If a woman swears that you raped her, you WILL be arrested and possibly charged until it's proven otherwise. Same goes with a teacher, I would think, if accused by a student for inappropriate conduct, you will at a minimum be put on leave and more than likely charged until it's proven otherwise. And, if and when proven innocent, this can stay on a person's record forever. How do you think that looks on the teacher's record? I would think it would be a little tough to get another job, or even be trusted by most of the parents in the school in which you worked. Even when proven not guilty. It's kind of like the parent who is accused of beating a child. Whether or not it happened, initially the same action will be taken, and the parent will be assumed to be guilty, even if it never happened. But that is the justice system, and it usually errors on the side of caution.
Yeah, but at least if you retain a highly professional attitude and you avoid anything that can be remotely construed as friendly or personal relations with a student you stand a better chance of not being accused of such actions and, you stand a greater chance of being found not guilty if things end up going into court. Yes it may leave you scarred either way, it may even mean that you may end up leaving the teaching profession even though you did nothing wrong and were cleared. I guess those are the breaks.
Still, if a teacher acts professionally and maintains proper professional distance between his/her students the odds of ending up in such a damaging situation go down. Once Mr or Miss Teacher starts getting too close, too friendly, or, even a little too intimate with a student all bets are off and the road to career ruination, as well as criminal penalties is wide open.
If a teacher values his/her career or likes his/her profession why create unneeded risks and raise the odds of future trouble ?
I agree with keeping it strictly professional, however, there is always that student that wants to get even for a bad grade, disciplinary action, or some other "I hate that teacher because _______, I'll fix them" attitude. I'm sure it rarely happens, but I'm sure it DOES happen. If anyone had tried that when I was in school, the teacher would have busted their chops; and if you told your parents about it, they would take turns using you as a piņata. There seems to be a major lack of respect for anybody by anybody these days.
Even in the workplace, one has to be careful. When I had some female engineers working for me, I always left the office door open when I had meetings with them. If the discussion required a closed door (i.e., a performance review), we would go to a meeting room with a glass window - blinds left open. While I highly doubt that any of these ladies would have fabricated a lie about my conduct, it was a simple preventative measure that served to protect the reputations of both the employer and employee.
Today's gem. Those who are interested may find her work online:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/...in-porn-768912
Yup, yup had a couple of teachers like that in my school days. Too bad their porn was printed on stone tablets. By the time we kids got to see it, those teachers were between the ages of 50 and 70. :nono:
Tenure must have been just invented when I was in school. No teacher I remember was below the age of 50. Same thing happened with Stewardesses. As a teenager I flew with my parents and wished I was old enough to date the Stews on TWA. Now I'm 56 and still not old enough to date some of them.
Yeah, but look at the airlines in your day..............................
http://www.airships.net/wp-content/u...ir-385x259.jpg
Guess the best thing is to make sure you give junior a nice high passing grade so he can get into the college his/her Daddy picked and sits on the board of directors of. Give the idiot a passing grade and let him flunk out in college or, better yet, on the job, when they discover he actually learned nothing and is thoroughly incapable of doing the job. I've seen it happen.
Not when you're a frequent flier and he's a mechanic.
Teacher's sexy mermaid tattoo leads probers to believe student's allegations about an affair:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1088923
I KNOW I went to Hornydog High, you know, raging hormones became evident at the beginning of co-ed gym classes. We were forced to line up and sit "Indian fashion" (my legs hated that) across from each other and while the boys could do noting about it several girls rocked back and forth...
I never heard about any student-teacher liaisons but the boys' and girls' gym teachers were front page. Now if you remember Porky's, the Lassie scene tells the story.