I'm probably the last person to criticise girls with daddy issues and noncing older men
but one thing that really makes me mad is when teachers betray the trust that's put in them to look after children. Having been through teacher training, I know they make a big deal about understanding teenage hormones make kids have weird feelings towards teachers, and you're taught how to deal with it. Putting himself in a room alone with her when he realised she had those kind of feelings is just seriously unprofessional.

When I was in sixth form, my German teacher was happily noncing about half a dozen girls. The staff knew but at that time they couldn't do anything without the girls in question saying anything, and none of them would. They eventually got him when my roommate grassed him up, and she only did that because he wouldn't agree to stop seeing the other girls.

*tuts*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Sep 2012, 13:46, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

There's a lot of this at uni too,
but no formal training to deal with it as such. Some people take advantage and I know of a couple of staff members who have been asked to leave, or moved on - and absolutely fair enough because they're abusing a position of trust etc. There are also situations where a particular student knows exactly what they want out of it (PhD, great reference, better marks, decent postdoc etc.) and is manipulating things that way.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 13:55, Reply)