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Crossing the Line.
In your opinion, what is crossing the line between student and teacher? Without being sexual.
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Really, any non-school related time spent together could be taken as past the line. A student going to a teacher's house alone, or meeting up somewhere for coffee are good examples of what wouldn't be seen as positive by anyone outside of it. If a teacher invites several students over for dinner as a reward for good grades, that's one thing. But if only one student is invited, it's suspicious.
My girlfriend just became a teacher, and from what I understand there are new threats forming, mostly in the form of Facebook. Many teachers have distinct policies to not add their students as friends. Some only add students who have graduated. Some add each and every one of them. My girlfriend has already discovered you'll find out things about your students you didn't want to know, especially when it comes to drug use and underage drinking. On the flip side, the students can find things out about you that they don't need to know.
Many prospective employers nowadays will find applicants on social networking sites as another way of screening them. If a teacher is looking for a job, and the new school sees them as friends with many former or current students who are clearly much younger, they may see that as unacceptable.
The line is thin and hard to see, and its place is up for interpretation by any party. Teachers may seem to be giving their students the cold shoulder socially, when they may very well be just covering their ass.
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