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Confused about my relationship with teacher
So a few years ago I met this English teacher. She's 41 and I'm 16. We've grown extremely close, in that we text every day and we go out to movies and dinner. The outings are new, and they're so much fun. I always have a great time with this teacher, because we just click. We go out with another one of her recently graduated students. This relationship has been confusing me for a long time, because I feel very close to this teacher and didn't know why. This past year I realized that she was feeling similarly about me (she e-mailed me about her feelings). My attachment to her isn't romantic. I'm a straight girl. Recently there's been some friction in my household because my mom voiced her opinions about how she found it weird that my teacher would hang out with me outside of school. I know that it's weird and unusual and my mom finds it creepy, because why would a teacher want to spend so much time with her student? I just keep on asking myself where my teacher's professionalism is, and how on earth things came to be this way. I don't get along that well with other teens. I love spending time with my teacher, but sometimes the relationship creeps me out so much I feel sick.
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Maybe give some free advice about: Work/School Relationships?
As long as the relationship is not sexual there is nothing wrong with it.
I had a shop teacher in Junior high school that I stayed in touch with when I went on to high school. When I was older I worked for him over the summer in his construction/remodeling business. I met his wife, was to his house for dinners and baby sat for his kids.
There was nothing strange about our relationship, we were friends, student/teacher and coworkers as well. Today people might look at our relationship and think otherwise as teachers are not supposed to have any type of relationship with a student outside the classroom even after they graduate.
If the relationship between you and your teacher is simply platonic there is nothing wrong with it. As with my teacher there are some teachers that just bond with some students. Your teacher may just be one of those teachers.
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