Calif. teacher resigns after leaving family for student

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!

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(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

partying is a fireable offense, though?

if parents get upset enough, you will be fired, doesn't matter what it's about.

^^

amen

well, otm, I mean

teacher's unions power must be waning if they can't even fight for your right to party.

I'm FB friends with a few of my H.S. teachers.

the argument from the school's point of view is that it can lead to changes in how the students view you as an individual, to the point where it becomes a substantial distraction to learning, undermines your authority (pedagogical and ethical) in the classroom, undermines other people's trust in you, etc

to get around the work/non-work distinction and teacher's unions what they usually do is transfer you to a different school and give you an administrative job. the principal i know was eventually rehired as a teacher at a different site.

speaking of strong teacher's unions, i've heard that in NYC the union is so strong, and the wheels of justice turn so slowly that there's a room full of suspended teachers at each district office who are basically sitting around reading newspapers - while collecting full pay - for months and months while the district looks into whatever allegations caused the suspension. the person who told me the story told me that some of those people have been there for years.

I read an article about that, but I have no idea where it was.

man, la dolce vita

Yeah, there was a story about it in the New Yorker a few years ago. xp

yeah, i had a friend in the rubber room. she was eventually vindicated (her boss hated her & filed a report out of spite) but yeah you have to report to the rubber room every day (there's many sites over the city) like a regular job and just sit there.

It's like teacher detention!

I read an article about that, but I have no idea where it was.

i read mention of that in an article abt a teacher who had done ... something. what was it?

oh, wait, he punched snooki

I guess they're gone in nyc: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/education/29rubber.html

so... standard british class system nonsense

Ha, we had a head boy and head girl too. It was just the equivalent of the US student council presidency.

she was embarassed about being in the rubber room and anytime we talked about it in public, if i even started to say "ru-" she would go SHHHHHHHHHH and look around to make sure no one heard.

rubber room --- we're not still talking about fucking the students, are we?

There were plenty of rumours/stories about violent teachers at my school (which I think were probably mostly true since I got "assaulted" (physically not sexually) by 2 teachers while I was there, and tbh this wasn't that long after corporal punishment was supposed to have been banned) but none whatsoever about sexual assault. Lots of stories about sexual abuse between older and younger students tho, all in the past though, never witnessed anything like that, I guess that's a lol public school?

A schoolmate of mine, who ended up being valedictorian, started seeing the trig teacher when she was a 10th grader and he was 40ish. He was married, had kids. He also looked every bit older than any 40ish guy I have ever met. I thought he was in his 50s at the time, still think he was like49 at best. Anyway, it was a rumor that I never believed. After graduation I heard they married but blew it off to rumors/jokes. Saw photos from the 20 year reunion and there they were, together, have been together since 1986. He's been retired awhile. They looked super happy.

Then there was another schoolmate who was rumored to be having an affair with the married tennis coach. That rumor was true, they also married the summer after graduation and had a baby very shortly after. He was in his early 30s.

Come to think of it, Del Rio High School was quite the Peyton Place between 1985-1989. Two pregnant girls with substitute teacher fathers. No scandals though, nothing seemed to even make it to the local paper.

!!! aer you the first ilxor from the valley?

my own creep stories...when I was in HS, heard one of our football coaches/gym teachers married a former student like the year she graduated. also the dance team coach apparently boinked some football players, she was married and abt 24 I think? that was a year or so after I graduated tho.

NO! I am not from the valley, Del Rio is NOT in the valley, it is South West Texas. Del Rioans loathe being confused with someone from the valley, haha...

It is just an isolated little pocket across the border from Acuna. Think XER, Wolfman Jack, Amistad Lake, Laughlin AFB and a few ufo sightings now and then.

Cuturally, the valley is soooooo different from Del Rio.

So when asked at parties or bbq's...so, how did you guys meet? In HS.....see I was a student and.....blehk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850TWNdu_RM

My husband's best friend and former high school teacher slept with several of his female students throughout his teaching career. He was finally fired sometime in the late Eighties when the administration started taking that sort of thing seriously, and he then became a lawyer. He screwed that up somehow, and he's now retired and broke.

Newt and Jackie, his high school geometry teacher and first wife:

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