Calif. teacher resigns after leaving family for student

Soon Yi is not Woody's daughter

creepy

technicality. her brother is her step-son.

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haha i love stories like this

really warms the heart

is teacher-student sex a uniquely american kind of freakout?

god no

debra lafave, if only i could be 15 again for you

http://img1-cdn.newser.com/square-image/13332-20110401024939/teen-sex-teacher-busted-again.jpeg

http://itsguycode.com/images/stories/jail-bait/teacher/lafaye/lafave-husband-3.jpg

lol @ genetics, legal standing, and facts of day-to-day life all being a "technicality"

xp

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076594/Mark-Westcott-Married-teacher-sex-girl-pupil-ski-trip-jailed.html

no i agree there's nothing creepy about a relationship with yr stepchild who was 10 when you started dating their mother, Shakes OTM

seems like there have been stories every week like this in la for the past month or so

I didn't say it wasn't creepy I said she's not his daughter. which is a fact.

well there was that california school that had some much more hideous shit going on too

yea that's an entirely diff thing that was fucking crazy

I know a girl who started dating her high school math teacher right after graduating. they're not still together. tbf I believe he was in his 20s. still weird to me though.

My high school honors English teacher divorced his wife so she could marry is daughter's best friend. She was in her late 20s at the time; he was just past 50 IIRC.

I'm gonna assume you mixed up some nouns there

no, some pronouns

he married his daughter's best friend, one of his former students

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120301-teacher-student-relationship-9a.photoblog600.jpg

i like how their heads are tilted just so, v nice photo

hands

I kinda want ZS to animate their heads Roxbury steez.

Man, that girl is so lucky

sorry, I couldn't resist, that's the default reaction when male student hooks up with teacher

when i heard the story on the radio this morning the way they glossed over the details actually made me think "oh, so he made the decision to resign so he could be with her and not hide it, i guess that's somewhat honorable as these things go" but no it looks like he was on some kind of leave and then asked to resign so yeah

He also called his girlfriend's mother's allegations a "pack of lies" and urged people to be careful in choosing what to believe.

I have never heard this phrase used outside of that Phil Collins song before

Any sort of power balance disparity makes this sort of thing fucked up. Age difference only the tip of the iceberg.

Then again, such disparities are kind of hot if they're somehow coded as rule-breaking and not exploitative?

So I guess what I'm saying is that I will never find a middle-aged dude hot so this is just gross and exploitative

He also called his girlfriend's mother's allegations a "pack of lies" and urged people to be careful in choosing what to believe.

I have never heard this phrase used outside of that Phil Collins song before

― some dude, Thursday, March 1, 2012 3:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol true

In five years she's going to be all "I wonder if he ever finished that novel"

He also called his girlfriend's mother's allegations a "pack of lies" and urged people to be careful in choosing what to believe. then broke into an air drum solo.

I have a friend whose husband was the teacher in a similar scenario. Dude went from "likable goof" to "most batshit guy I know IRL" in sixty seconds flat after he got caught

I have had similar firsthand experiences with people in similar situations and they are always, erm, eye-opening.

- colleague of my dad's who perved it up w/ 13yo student, got caught, went to jail, and now... teaches kids in another state!
- friend of my wife's who had a relationship with her high school physics teacher
- acquaintance who once complained to me about how "hard" it is to be a hs teacher because of the preponderance of hot young chix

in all cases it's just "wtf are you thinking/you are insane"

One of my close friends in high school had a Dad who was a HS teacher at a different school across town. He had an affair with a senior student (18 at the time, he was in his 50's) - she got pregnant and he left his family and married her. Creepiest, weirdest situation EVER. I don't even know if they're still together but that whole period of time was like, "I'm sorry..you what now?"
It completely changed my view of her dad. He had taught me and a friend of mine for a while, we thought he was the greatest teacher ever, the coolest Dad in the world...and within months we were all just rallying around our friend and her Mom, and he became a stranger to all of us, including his own family. It was just awful.

- acquaintance who once complained to me about how "hard" it is to be a hs teacher because of the preponderance of hot young chix

the only way you could possibly feel this way is if all your information about being a teacher in hs comes from watching pornos

I can kind of understand in a distant way. There were some girls who definitely looked older when I was in high school in the way some women look kind of vaguely between 16 and 30. Most high school kids, though, look... like high school kids. And the ones who look really mature usually like they're 35 by the time they're 22. And if you speak to them while they're in high school, they usually have the mindset and maturity of a teenager!

Nice use of air quotes there

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And if you speak to them while they're in high school, they usually have the mindset and maturity of a teenager!

this a million times no matter what they look like. and not just usually. always.

the only way you could possibly feel this way is if all your information about being a teacher in hs comes from watching pornos

perhaps I should have clarified that the person speaking was a hs math teacher

That girl in that picture up there looks like a child no matter how you slice it. Maybe it's just because I'm 42, but really.

as someone who taught hs, the idea of wanting to embark on a romantic relationship with a hs student seems totally insane to me.

exactly

agreed, love em and leave em

lol

Mordy otm.

I like HS kids okay, but marrying any of them? FFS.
Besides that, I was a fucking idiot when I was 18. I thought I was super grounded and together, but I was a self-absorbed idiot. And any 40 year old who thinks any 18 year old, male or female, is marrying material, is off their bloody rocker. I mean, just the difference between someone at 18 and the same person at 25 is HUGE. It's just so wtf to me.

tbf, some people really don't mature much intellectually or romantically past that age. Hopefully, those people are not high school teachers.

people really REALLY love doing the wrong thing. don't know if you've noticed that over the years.

i could get high and mighty because i'm a grownup who's only ever been in age-appropriate relationships, but i'm constantly reminded of the marc maron routine where he goes "Of course I want to have sex with teenage girls. C'mon, doesn't everyone? That's why there's a law." -- some men hit an age or a point in their life where teenage girls aren't attractive to them at all anymore, but to be really real most just straight up do not. and it definitely should be a measure of your character as a man and as a person whether you can just move on and not give more than a glance to girls that young after you hit the age of, like, 22.

well, no story this year is gonna beat the one about the teacher that fed his students his semen, so everything else is a race for second

nope, that one is tops!!

hmmm, guess I do want to load all 453 comments

haha frogbs

that photo is weird

frogbs's time away from ilx has done him well - he's killing

honed and sharp as a tack

(04-06) 19:16 PDT Modesto, Calif. (AP) --

A former California teacher who made national headlines when he left his job and family to move in with an 18-year-old student was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually abusing a different student more than a decade ago, police said.

Christopher Hooker, 41, was arrested at his home and booked in Stanislaus County Jail on one count of oral copulation with a minor.

Police said the abuse occurred with a 17-year-old girl in 1998 when Hooker was a teacher at Davis High School in Modesto. The girl was a student at a different school, police said.

In a statement, police said Hooker befriended the 17-year-old. The department did not immediately return a call seeking clarification of how the two met.

Hooker appeared in court Friday. A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, set his bail at $50,000 and assigned him a public defender, the Modesto Bee reported.

Hooker requested that his bail amount be reduced, and the judge set a hearing for Tuesday to consider the matter.

Police said the investigation started after Hooker announced his relationship in February with Jordan Powers, whom he taught at Enochs High School in Modesto.

Hooker has three children, including one who was a junior at Enochs.

The underage victim was discovered in the course of that investigation, police said.

Appearing on numerous national talk shows and in news interviews, Hooker and Powers maintained they didn't have a sexual relationship until she turned 18, but police are still investigating whether there was inappropriate contact before that.

In interviews for the "Dr. Phil" show and ABC's "Good Morning America," the couple can be seen holding hands and exchanging smiles.

Powers' mother, Tammie, confronted the couple on "Dr. Phil" and accused Hooker of brainwashing her daughter.

The couple maintains that, while they met when Jordan was 14, their relationship did not become physical until she was of age, making it permissible under current laws. California's age of consent is 18.

The Modesto Bee reported that Tammie Powers sent a text message to one of the newspaper's reporters Friday saying she and her daughter were catching a flight to an undisclosed location.

In response to the relationship between Hooker and Jordan Powers, a state lawmaker from Modesto last week proposed legislation that would ban student-teacher relationships regardless of age, even if the student is 18, and strip school employees of their pensions and retiree health care if they are convicted.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/06/national/a141920D94.DTL#ixzz1rKVRYPUu

you kind have known something like this was going to happen.

It's all just so... u_u

this story just gets better and better!

"No jail for me and that is only because of luck … no witnesses coming forward," the message reads. "He said he was of legal age, but he lied. I just can't help wanting these hot young boys … and they want me. Who am I to spoil a young man's fantasy. Damn."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/kristle-vandever-oregon-t_n_1738632.html

cut his pwnis off imo

haha oh wait it's a female teacher, cut off her head

srsly though my ex was telling me this is v common in mn and wi. can anyone confirm?

uh really?? i mean i think it's happened here but

yeah she said everyone she knew in every high school agreed

maybe it was just a rumor among that clique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzNto68p5g

i didn't grow up here so maybe!

xp

that letourneau thing seems to be defying expectations

All I know is, in my high school, someone gbx knew was seduced by a female teacher and claimed to have brain tumor to deflect attention away from the "affair" and my English teacher left his wife for his (mid 20s) daughter's best friend, so maybe this does happen in MN all of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmezIIrFQmY

this happens in schools all of the time!

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8479276/cincinnati-bengals-ex-nfl-cheerleader-sarah-jones-pleads-guilty-student-sex

always nice when love wins out in the end

"Deters declined to discuss details of their current relationship, saying that the pair would discuss it on the "Today" show and "Dateline" on Friday."

Man you have to have some simple life needs to be 27 and think a teen is who you want to pursue

I just... male or female, I just *do not* understand how hooking up somehow becomes a good idea for a teacher with a student.

like, that's a line that looks like a third-world military checkpoint in my mind.

I've known teachers who have done it, who have entertained the idea of doing it, and the children of teachers who have done it and I will never comprehend that mindset

why are america's teachers emotionally stunted????

and I know it's not as simple as 'oh this is a good idea' but, there's so many points on that road where turning back can happen/is an option. where 'this is wrong' is a song that's playing in your head.

Well, a lot of people meet someone special at work and for teachers most of the people they meet are children

also "this is wrong" often sounds like "but feels SO RIGHT" to these people

true

not their first or even worst bad choice in their life leading up to that moment perhaps

"This is wrong and makes me feel bad in a pleasurable way"

nailed it

so to speak, cough

Maybe they really want to be on the "Today" show.

At least they're drawing the line between the 'Today' show and Dateline NBC.