I’m attracted to one of my female teachers

According to her suicide note, she killed herself after years of being bullied by co-workers. FOX6 shared those emails with her family. Things that were, you know, just blatantly obvious and were ignored.

My spreadsheet logging COVID cases in K schools in the U.S. really started out of curiosity. I was seeing a lot of news articles shared on social media about schools Stock image of a girl with face mask back at school after covid-​19 I put a call out in various teacher groups I’m in on social media.

To improve your visit to our site, take a minute and upgrade your browser. My freshman American literature course presented me with many revelations, but one of the most indelible happened not inside the auditorium classroom where, twice a week, our professor stood onstage in front of more than a hundred year-olds. Like many vaguely parental relationships, the pedagogic one can have a strong and unsettling erotic undertow. Like many young women, however, we were far from immune to the mystique of a man who can command the admiring attention of a crowd, and if he was like most men, he was sensible to the flattery of all those rapt faces.

Yet at the root of this queasy dynamic was genuine intellectual excitement. His class set off a series of firecrackers in my understanding of books, ideas whose impact I can still recollect vividly. That species of desire makes ideas feel more vitally connected to our bodily lives and tells us that passions can be spurred by qualities deeper than six-pack abs. Whether students or their teachers should ever act on such desires, however, has never been an untroubled question.

To do so raises the possibility of both favoritism and exploitation. If we think of the university as a purely professional realm, where services are exchanged for a fee among rational economic actors, then sexual relationships seem clearly out of bounds, as they are in most workplaces, especially between supervisors and subordinates. Perhaps what makes pedagogy so potent also makes it inherently erotic.