Maybe our resident teachers will comment, but covid changed everything here.

Kids, that want to, have had near constant contact with their teachers through their school apps and iPads here ever since. If a kid messages a teacher while doing homework many of them expect a response, and get it, within the hour. For many, remote learning simply broke a barrier that is very difficult to put back up unless teachers or the school board put up a strict no contact outside of hours policy.

Our local school board is having discussions about this now in preparation for dialing it back another notch for next year. On top of the obvious issues it can lead to, teachers shouldn't be expected to answer questions all evening and kids shouldn't be expecting them to either.
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Not terrible looking, but going for a 13 year old gets her the death sentence from me. This wasn't a young man. It was a child.
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Huh?

The only mention of 13 was how much time she got. The student was a senior.
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Oh, hahhaa. That's what I get for multi tasking at work.


Then she's not guilty I guess.
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It got someone fucked.
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I bet he tore her ass up like a champ! Get real already. Kid was probably traumatized over this and she was left still horny! :-)
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I get that it was 10 years ago, but at one point teachers were not allowed to be part of any Facebook Friends, Instagram buddies or in group chats with students....if you were caught doing it there were disciplinary steps that eventually led to dismissal.

And yet, in my daughters school at least 2 teachers were arrested for having relations with a student. So we can't necessarily blame it on the remote learning, COVID or social media.

It was probably occurring more than we knew even back then, it's just everyone now reports it, when back then it was hushed up and quietly dealt with.
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Back in my day the boy would have been thrilled, dad proud and the teacher quietly not rehired for the next school year.
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Just graduated the class of 2024 last night. This is the class that spent the spring of 2020 (and some of the fall) locked down at home. The valedictorian spoke briefly about students having to interact with each other and the teacher through "screens". The last four years have been a real challenge getting the academic standards back up but the social-emotional maturity suffered big time. It's getting better.

IMO, nope, nope, and nope on increasing potential for student/teacher relationships. Boundaries are blinking neon signs and have been for the last 20 years (especially if you're a dude). Hanky-Panky and Hot for Teacher going to happen without the effects of a pandemic.

We are required to use mediated communication with students ala Remind (text), Parents Square (email). Hey, there are some problems... I've seen coaches, stuco sponsors, extracurricular clubs, etc., and any group with activities use their own phone numbers to quickly communicate stuff like "practice is canceled" and " the bus picks up behind the activity center". This scares the sheet out of me enough to pine for the days without phones and instant messaging.
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I was hanging out with some of my teacher friends last night drinking. All older people. I said what do we think at the highschool level how many teachers per year having relations or photos with students per school?

I said minimum 1 to 3..?

They said way higher.

Much higher when you add in only fans.

It is happening a fuck ton.
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I am not going to send you texts or emails about when assignments are due. I already told the students when it was due, you miss, you fail. I would never communicate with a child without the parent's knowledge and inclusion, and those communications would be rare, if at all. AS far as group wide communications related to late buses and cancelled practices, that's on the school to have mechanisms to do that from an impersonal no-reply account.
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I quit emailing parents or students after hours. It is just not worth it. If you do it once, they expect it always. Then you get more and more. Teachers in my building are finally getting admin to get tougher on expectations of late work, work turn in after sick or missing days, tardies etc.

They are going to have a parent expectations meeting next fall to outline new policies. We know parents are outright lying about being gone. We are a Catholic school. You rea paying good money to lie about being gone for a week and expecting the teacher to do more work so your kid can be gone.

There needs to be a major shift in education on so many levels.
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Agreed. It seems that few graduate with knowledge on how to do anything. Many cannot even write a decent paragraph. I think a good start is to eliminate the Department of Education.
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I'll give you a key one:

Academics first.
Activities/Athletics second.
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I never do any school related work once I walk through the door (never means I can count on 1 hand the number of times I take something home every school year).

I can't even log in to my school e-mailS (yes it's annoying) on my personal devices and vice versa. Separation of work and home has served me well.

As for parent expectations, yep, parenting is shit for the most part. They'd rather their kid be their buddy than be the bad guy and teach them accountability.
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