Is This The Way It Is

[jennyjoan]

Educating Greater Manchester. Watched it last week and it was repeated last night.

Is it true that teachers, get involved in the pupils relationship with each other - boy and girl.

I was truly flummoxed

[fiction-factory]

Not in my experience- unless it is causing issues with their behaviour or acedemic progress

[ummmm]

Teachers are usually available to give their students advice.

[jennyjoan]

About romances - not in my day -

[ummmm]

I suppose it's if the child goes to them.

[Islay]

Well looking at last weeks when they got involved with the young couple who had broken up due to rumours it was affecting their school life and was affecting several youngsters.
So a good thing the teachers got involved and sorted it and the children went back to learning!
Lets me grateful things have moved on eh!!

[jennyjoan]

I don't think that the boy who loved makeup went to them - as far as I could see he didn't participate in his studies. Altho it was remedied later.

[Sqad]

JJ...today the teachers are often a part of the relationships.;-)

Didn't happen in my day either.

[jennyjoan]

I am envisioning the butterfly nuns helping us. Don't think so.

[jennyjoan]

I recall nervously smiling when head nun came in. She shouted to me - "why are you smiling like a cheshire cat". Pretty wicked nun too -I will never forget that.

[Islay]

Well thank goodness we have moved on as the nuns seem to teach with seeing how they could torture children!!

[bednobs]

the make up boy was not participating in his lessons, and putting himself into dangerous situations outside of school. I think they have a moral duty to intervene

[Peter Pedant]

No this was the way it was when i was at skool
and I am glad it has changed

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/john-hurts-brother-in-monastery-here-after-uk-childabuse-caution-26811061.html

[zebo]

Sqad, it most certainly did! One girl had a relationship with a teacher, married him and came back to the school to teach. I think that this programme demonstrates the extent to which a teacher's job extends far beyond the classroom, they not only have to get involved in the lives of their pupils but it's not unknown for parents to come into school seeking advice on their own personal lives.

[Sqad]

Zebo....I stand corrected.
In my experience it never did.....it never had to.....having a relationship with a teacher?....was never an option (in my experience.)

[hc4361]

When I was at school in the 70s a girl had a sexual relationship with the PE teacher. All the girls were jealous of her, and all the boys were jealous of the teacher

[Sqad]

hc......."in the 70's?....the beginning of the permissive society?
My comments are derived fro the 40's and 50's....which gives you an idea how quickly morals and attitudes have changed.

[hc4361]

My uncle was born in 1943 and his old teacher, Marcus Marcussen, was sent to prison for abusing boys.
Thankfully this permissive society gives children a voice that will be listened to.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31456807

[Peter Pedant]

a teacher was fired for getting a girl up the duff in 1965
was it addition or multiplication they were practising ?

sqad - you are a classic case of "recall bias"