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To: SmithL
Quite frankly I don't understand it. I teach teenagers, and have had my share of flirtatious students, but I must admit that I have never been tempted. Who wants a teenage girl as a lover? The age and maturity difference means that you can't have a real relationship, and the risks involved greatly outweigh any possible romantic benefits. I just don't see the reason...

To be honest, I tend to think of my female students more as my daughters than as potential romantic interests. It's one of the reasons that I'm known as the school dresscode-Nazi; I wouldn't want my own daughter to wear some of the stuff that these kids show up to school in!

The only possibility that I can see is that the teachers doing so are as immature as the students. Unfortunately, I have met a few teachers who actually teach in high school because they loved high school so much when they were that age, and they want to relive it again. They get way too involved in the students' world. I can see how those folks might do something so stupid, but I just can't see how a rational adult could...

26 posted on 02/12/2005 10:22:14 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
"To be honest, I tend to think of my female students more as my daughters than as potential romantic interests."

Me thinks most healthy people see it that way.

Asking oneself how would I want someone to treat my son or daughter arrives at the Golden Rule solution real fast. LOL
61 posted on 02/13/2005 8:48:40 AM PST by Smartaleck (Tom Delay TX: (Dems have no plan, no agenda, no solutions.))
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