What a short sighted ignorant statement. Both my wife and I teach. She full time and I part time. We live in a tiny town so we end up teaching our friends children and sometimes even distant relatives.
We are involved in 4H, the Police athletic league, and several other youth programs. We are around our students all the time, professionally, socially, and in their parents private homes as we visit our own friends.
Just how do you think we are supposed to act? Are we supposed to be rude and uncaring about our neighbors and friends children? Are we supposed to avoid them and not talk to them when they are at the local grocery store?
Here is the biggest question. Are we supposed to tell our own son that he can never have friends that we have taught or do teach and that never ever can these kids visit him in our home?
Back up and start over again. There is not any rational way you can support your statement and make it work in rural America.
Two of my teachers were neighbors and family friends with kids my age.
I and they handled that much the same way I would handle my kids being friends with the CEO of my company. Distinct lines, and I was not their little-buddy.
I am close friends with my daughter's principle. It would be very inappropriate for her and he to be friends on Facebook.
I used to drop in on my teacher at home.
Always very professional.