Posted on 03/01/2012 5:32:57 PM PST by 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."
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Which one is the Hooker again?
What's the purpose? To ensure that the wife becomes a widow down the road? Women do tend to outlive men by six or seven years, you know.
Not necessarily.
Here's a case where the teacher married his 15 year old student and they stayed married for almost 70 years, winning the Pulitzer Prize and multiple other honors for their joint writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
I don’t think it helps the sanctity of marriage, by putting a girl, or young man, in a position of having been manipulated into marriage, and forcing them to have to live with that decision for the rest of their lives with no way out.
Not the one that looks like an Archangel!
Edd is, of course, referring to Newt Gingrich who married his former high school geometry teacher. Many loons have blamed Newt for subsequently divorcing the teacher.
Weird sh!t is normal there.
It's over 200,000 crazy people in one place. No, I mean actually crazy. All of them. :)
Let’s see how long he lasts hearing “ohmygod”, “like” and “awesome” 1,000 times (each) every day.
Dumb bastard.
Ahh.
I think Newt does deserve a slap for treating marriage as cavalier. But, as I recall, it was the Mrs that wanted out at the time, not Newt.
True story. A cop stopped and chatted a couple of suspicious characters in Emeryville, CA, across the Bay from the City. So, where are you staying, he asked? “In Frisco!” one of them replied. That was enough to check them out, find out there were wanted and arrest them. Nobody in the Bay Area says “Frisco”.
If you really had been from Modesto, you would have said “Motown”. We’d better check you out!
An adult male interested in teen girls is obviously mentally ill!
Any man over thirty interested in a lady in her early twenties obviously needs intense psychiatric care!
Born in Modesto City Hospital and Graduate of Modesto High School, home of the Panthers. :)
I find teenage girls entertaining, because there’s that balance of naivity and shock as they find out that the world isn’t what they thought it was when they were ten years old.
But I can imagine he isn’t in it for the stimulating conversation.
Yeah, and Thunderbird Wine!
When dealing with teens, expect everything to be drama or angst ridden. It’s wonderful to see them learn, grow and achieve.
She might have had second thoughts, if she had a male role model to have an honest chat with her. But I remember being 18 myself, and I can tell you, most 18 year olds are still fairly incapable of considering lifetime consequences.
If you really want to bring back the concept of sanctity, which I understand the value of fully, you could probably do better through positive experiences than negative ones.
Very much so.
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