Posted on 12/28/2004 11:39:19 AM PST by pissant
A TEENAGE girl has declared her love for a middle-aged school teacher by telling her family she wants to have children with him.
Affair ... Melanie Docwra, left, says she plans to marry teacher Robert Drummond / File
Melanie Docwra, 17, has told her mother Wendy she plans to marry maths teacher Robert Drummond, 52, and settle down with him, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
The twice married father-of-five has been removed from classes at academically selective Gosford High School on the New South Wales Central Coast while education chiefs investigate.
"We tried to warn him - the kids got together and did an intervention and he wouldn't listen," a family member said.
Mr Drummond allegedly told the family member: "I think I've met [wife] No.3."
The teacher, who has spent more than 15 years at Gosford High School, recently left his wife Pamela after nine years of marriage.
Ms Docwra has just finished her HSC, scoring a UAI of 89.
Her crush on the maths teacher is shown in a poem she wrote to him while still at school.
The poem reads in part: "Sir, I did love you ... I fell into your open arms and I didn't stand a chance".
Wendy Docwra has been trying to stop the relationship for months.
In October this year she berated the teacher: "I understand you have been involved with Melanie romantically for the last four weeks and Melanie has been to your home in Pamela's absence.
"You are four years older than Melanie's father, David ... this is a crush. Marriage is hard enough without the obstacles that Melanie will encounter in any future with you.
"The honourable thing for you to do is to back off until her exams are over and then let her down gently."
Gosford High is the second selective school hit by allegations of a teacher-student relationship.
Baulkham Hills High's former head of English, Jeff Sinclair, was sacked over an affair with student Nicki Shackle.
Mrs Docwra decided to go public with her own story after seeing Ms Shackle's mother, Judy, on TV.
Teacher-student love affairs are banned under the Education Department's code of conduct. Mr Drummond has refused to comment.
Now stop being narrow minded, pissant. She's 17 for heaven's sake. Don't you think that's old enough? That was rhetorical and sarcastic.
Hey! It is in Kentucky! : )
Well, she will be old enough in less than 12 months.
Wisdom? That's another story.
Seventeen is far too young by any standard.
The sad thing about this is she's HOMESCHOOLED!
I don't see the reasoning behind saying this is wrong ... unless one believes unmarried girls should be chaste.
How tragic.....her life course has been permanently altered with this one stupid move.
Whachu talking 'bout Mr Drummond ??
We've all, at some point, had infatuations with teachers. Lord knows I did, especially with the cute ones.
If the math teach had consumated the affair (and I can't tell from the post if he did or not), then I'd agree with with you.
If that hasn't happened, then innocence is preserved for now. Let jurisprudence take its course. It'd be kinder than the court of public opinion ever will be.
Dangit, and Missus is older than I am. Yeesh!!!
lol. now that's funny. :)
The sad thing about this is she's HOMESCHOOLED!Why do you say that? Where would she have met him if she was homeschooled? Would it still be a violation of the schools's policy if she wasn't a student? From the article:
Her crush on the maths teacher is shown in a poem she wrote to him while still at school.Maybe she is homeschooled now, but then again, if my 17 year old was falling in love with a 50 year old teacher, I'd yank her from school and homeschool her too. Unfortunately it looks to be too late in this case.
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I remember quite well what lot's of good not so little girls were doing in high school. It's really quite normal for teen girls to become sexually active and frustrated with the boys in that same age group. A year from now she'll be trying to figure just what she was thinking? And of course she'll be thinking about it while lying next to someone in his twenties........It's life!
This ought to have HURL ALERT attached ;-)
Sigh. It's a joke.
That one took me a second. LOL.
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