Calif. teacher resigns after leaving family for student

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there was a lot of stuff in HS that seemed normal at the time that retrospectively looks a little "off"...i knew juniors in HS who were hooking up w/8th graders.

― omar little, Friday, March 2, 2012 2:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think to some degree almost everyone has a bit of an ~~~age ain't nothin but a number baby~~~ mentality until they hit 18, if not later

this is sort of a no-brainer but people under 18 are not very good judges of what is normal or appropriate, hence things like voting age, drinking age, age of consent, etc

went to two different high schools and there were crepey teachers at both. The one at the first school was eventually arrested after we'd moved to school #2. At the second one, the teacher was fired for an "unrelated" reason (though I later wondered about that; he was pretty brazen). That guy was very popular with the students--he was "cool" and very politically liberal for a high school in Georgia--and they rallied around him as a kind of free speech martyr, assuming the administration canned him for being too much of a rebel.

xpost i mean obv the same goes for people over 18 too but for teenagers its basically a rule of thumb that if you don't give them *explicit* advice on what is appropriate/safe you might as well tell them to flip a coin.

when i was 16/17/18 it didn't seem odd at all that some of my peers were dating older dudes. when i was 22+ myself it seemed super-odd that any of my peers would do that (like beyond randomly hooking up w/someone at a club or sth)

i think when i was of HS age it seemed normal to know peers who were dating someone in their early twenties but once i hit early twenties and knew dudes who did that they were always regarded as being a little creepy by *their* peers.

this is sort of a no-brainer but people under 18 are not very good judges of what is normal or appropriate, hence things like voting age, drinking age, age of consent, etc

― the late great, Friday, March 2, 2012 2:25 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is there some kind of weird filter on my posts itt that makes people think i am giving a huge approving thumbs-up to anything i describe?

I think you might be switched to i100percentendorsethisposition.css

I think a lot of people would disagree w/ the voting age and drinking age and even age of consent

I'm for them all being 16. maybe lower for the first two.

you should not be allowed to vote, drink or drive until you have lost your virginity or killed someone

you should get an extra vote and a free car if you have killed someone with your virginity

always aim to combine the two

"you're gonna have to put that six of mickey's back, son, you don't appear to have been turned out to me"

extreme kegeling

voting age, drinking age, age of consent, driving age

was your town kind of terribly conservative and ass backwards?

It's like you've never read a thing I've posted. Which is weird, because you were there being me when it happened.

how are you supposed to lose your virginity if you can't drive a car.

oh yeah, science teacher.

why do you need a car to lose your virginity?

it's true, and people wonder where i get my amazing dancing skills and i can't even explain it b/c it's some 'lost highway' shit

this is america

xp

(frantic search for that 80s snl sketch)

yr highland dancing is A+, Omar/Laurel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/my-strange-addiction-cars_n_1268798.html

why do you need a car to lose your virginity?

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 2, 2012 2:51 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

nsfw http://dallaspenn.com/pics/albums/album01/tailpipelover.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd1GwV5G5Vo

just the Soup clip of that Strange Addiction car guy was hella weird. Dude fully making out with the bumper of his car while lying underneath it o_O

and it's not like had a hot Buick Grand National or an old Charger or something...it was like a freaking Taurus or a LeSabre or something super lame

"She may not be the girl some/ men think of as pretty
But to my heart, she carries the key."

Andrew WK enthuses abt that dude in the most recent issue of the stranger: "That's an amazing passion to have."

full context:

Have you seen the show about people with fetishes? One is about a guy who's in love with his car. He's fully amorous.

People are capable of having romantic and erotic feelings for automobiles. There's J. G. Ballard's book Crash, and the movie, which explores that to some degree. Although it's not quite as literal as people wanting to have intercourse with the car. That's an amazing passion to have.

There's another episode about a guy who's sexually into balloons. He blows them up and has mini orgasms when they pop. Do you think these people are real or is the show staged? You should see the guy into cars kiss his front bumper like it's a mouth. It was like a Civic hatchback.

I think they're real. Human beings are pretty limitless.

do yourself a favor and never search for balloon fetishists on youtube

lol, thanks for the tip. love awk, but have to admit that his crowleyist embrace of "human potential" in all its manifestations sometimes seems a bit unnerving. suppose that's the point...

andrew wk is such a positivity zombie that i wouldn't be surprised if he's super duper proud of james hooker for following his bliss

Are you me??

― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Friday, March 2, 2012 1:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was your town kind of terribly conservative and ass backwards?

― omar little, Friday, March 2, 2012 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Twins!

http://oi40.tinypic.com/fypsa1.jpg

(OK, starting to regret that...)

lol

eye in the sky

had an interesting reverse situation at my junior high. A very attractive female teacher, who was young and dressed young, teaching 7th graders. It was kind of a chaos of hormones. I heard she eventually quit because of constant harassment. (she simply couldn't keep control of her classes and her authority was never taken seriously.) a very crummy situation for her.

my 12th grade english teacher eventually got fired for having a relationship with a student. i think she was 24ish at the time? they ended up continuing the relationship after he graduated and she was fired.

i always was completely creped out by the whole thing, but the weirdest part was seeing her at parties with the dude and having to call her t1ffany or t1ff (shudder) instead of mrs. R

gross

I've had former teachers and one principal attempt to friend me on Facebook. I turn them down because (A) I wasn't really interested in striking up any connection with them then, so why would I want to now? and (B) even though I'm now in my late 30s and they're in their late 40s/early 50s, it's still a little skeevy.

To me, at least.

Though my mom posts pictures of her granddaughter (my daughter) and there suddenly appears all of these 14-year-olds coming out of the woodwork to say, "Oh she's so cute Mrs. R!"

Maybe it's a thing now.

My best friend is a teacher and she goes under an assumed name on FB so that her students can't find her. She's already had to change it once.

I had 14 year old girls on my bus ask me if I was on Facebook. I told them no. That was the truth, but even if I were on Facebook, I still would have told them no.

I couldn't think of anything more horrifying than being FB friends with students

being linkedin friends with them...

i know at least one teacher and one principal who got fired after students found photos of them partying on facebook and showed their parents

that is some bullshit.

otoh FB is evil so you get what you deserve I guess