Teacher Leaves Wife, Kids for High School Student

Yahoo ^ | 01 March 2012 | Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

[Repeat Offender]

Last year, Jordan Powers was just another student from Mr. Hooker's class. Now she's his live-in girlfriend.

James Hooker -- the 41-year-old married father who left his wife and kids for his 18-year-old-student -- might be the worst teacher ever. Last week, he resigned from his job at Enochs High School in Modesto, California over the scandal that's shaken up a community and pit one mom on a crusade to save her daughter from a man she calls a "master manipulator."

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headlines today:

Power Hooker Hooks Powers!

[Christie at the beach]

Where I come from older men with younger teen girls is just wrong. Clinton really added the damage to our moral fabric when the women allowed him to have a pass now being transformed into a statesman when many of us know he is trash. Imo.

[Jonty30]

While there might be a few creepy Freepers. Most want to see the pics of the girl more for curiosity than anything else. I think most here realize that nothing is to be gained for the 18 year old.

[mountainbunny]

Let me guess. Their song is “Into the Night” by Benny Mardones.

Or:

Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon, by Neil Diamond or Urge Overkill.

Don't Stand So Close To Me, by The Police

Jailbait, by Aerosmith

Young Girl by Gary Puckett

[madprof98]

No mention of the girl having a father in her life—which is probably why she selected this teacher as her “friend.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

I am 27 and the thought of dating anyone under the age of 22 makes me sick.

I've heard a good rule of thumb for minimum age of a girlfriend is "half your age plus 7". It seems to work over a surprisingly wide range, only breaking down for the elderly.

[Zhang Fei]

The old joke “some days I feel like an 18 year old... but it’s pretty tough finding one who’s willing around here” won’t apply to him - at least for a year.

[paul51]

just looking at the guy makes me want to punch him. When my daughter was in college in boston I was getting a wierd vibe re one of her instructors. A quick run cross country got that straightened out real quick.

[MrEdd]

The case I am referring to had dozens and dozens of freepers on a large number of threads specifically attacking the student for not staying faithfully married to the teacher.

It has been really sickening to watch, and they invoked God and the Bible in their attacks on the student.

[dog breath]

With morals like that the man should be a Muslim.

[Lancey Howard]

Teachers, lol.

[Revolting cat!]

This reminds me of...

the day my momma socked it to
the Harper Valley PTA!

[Revolting cat!]

Naw, Conway Twitty's You've Never Been This Far Before!

[Jonty30]

Those Freepers are wrong.

I don’t support divorce, but I think compassion is needed where an inexperienced child does a stupid act like this because she has an emotional need not being met and is starving to have it met.

[Venturer]

Another idiot thinking with the little head.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

When I was in high school I had a teacher who knocked up a little sex pot student. He divorced his wife and married the girl.

[fr_freak]

The case I am referring to had dozens and dozens of freepers on a large number of threads specifically attacking the student for not staying faithfully married to the teacher.

Well, we've got a choice here: either acknowledge that an 18-year-old girl, who is a legal adult and has the right to vote, is an adult capable of making her own decisions and being held accountable for them, or go back to the days when women were considered the property, or at least, the wards, of men, fathers,husbands, etc., and thus were not responsible for their own decisions. Giving these young women full rights in some areas but treating them like children in others will not work.

Having said that, I have no doubt that this naive girl was easy pickings for this older guy and was vulnerable to manipulation. However, if she should choose to marry him, her naivete, in itself, is not grounds to toss away all standards for the sanctity of marriage. After all, there are plenty of older people, both men and women, who fall prey to manipulation and pressure in relationships, and we don't excuse them either.

[metmom]

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[Tammy8]

Several years ago there was a local high school football coach that was caught hosting a party for the football players and cheerleaders. This party included sex, booze, etc. and it was rumored the coach had sex with one of the cheerleaders, but she would not admit to it so it wasn’t proven. There was of course an uproar in the community- coach had a very young wife and child and it was discovered his wife had been a cheerleader at his previous school that he had gotten pregnant and divorced the wife he had at the time who was also a previous cheerleader that he got pregant a few years before that! This man had been doing this for years and I guess the parents of the girls he got pregnant didn’t raise a stink since he would marry them. It was unbelievable- and schools kept hiring him- because he was a great coach don’t you know.

[ArchAngel1983]

Doesn't the union have little plastic statues to award wonderful educators like this for such an occasion? Raise our taxes. . . Raise our taxes! lol