Although you are posting your name, Sue, you have to be a guy
I will confess to the ownership of a penis. However I am in touch with my inner woman. She is a lesbian.
I realized I was leaving my female voice when I posted that. Good catch.
because a woman would not joke about a man in a position of power taking advantage of a young girl.
I was not joking. I remember her as a very beatiful and desirable young woman. I have no idea how the relation happened. I do know that if I was in Mr T's postion it would be a difficult decision. I know because I have been there myself, and had to make that call. I have been in a committed monogomous relation for over twenty years. While I found the 15 year old in my personal temtation be very attactive, I had to decline her kind offer of sexual gratification.
A great deal of male thought process occurs below the belt.
The power thing is real. Most men do not realize the power aspect of these non-peer relations. My Sig O does social work for a living and has sex offenders for clients. I have been educated on the subject
I don't care how much she asked for it or said she wanted to do whatever it was, a teacher, principal, or whatever has a responsibility and duty to his job and to the kids, not to take advantage of them. We are talking about young girls who have various psychological problems, some as simple as being raised without a father. This type of girl needs good examples in her life, not to see that a man would take advantage of her.
No argument. Word, as the youngters say.
You have said a lot of good things on this board Sue, but you are off track when it comes to this. I don't see anything funny at all about Joe Gauld having an affair with a student or Larry Dubinsky running around campus getting a quick feel, taking pictures of only pretty girls, taking them off for the night, etc.
Thank you. I try to be thoughful or funny or both at the same time. The thing with Joe and A. vanH. was smarmy for the non-peer power aspect.
Don't mean to sound so angry, but I hope you will give some consideration to how these girls might feel later in life and think about the trust that was broken.
I absolutely know how they feel. I was brought up catholic.
Problem with Hyde is they don't take these things seriously. The strictly think about how to cover their butts. I read on one of the posts how there is once again another problem with a teacher, (the music teacher) being sexually inappropriate with another student. Guess we won't hear about that one either until someone posts it on this board. When will Hyde learn to screen their teachers better, pay them enough to get decent ones, and take appropriate action when one of them steps over the line?
I know very little about Hyde. I will not defend the present incarnation of the same. When I was there it work for me. With that said it worked for me because of the things I learned dealing with the place, not because I got "it" as they used to say in E.S.T.. Some of the experiances were good, the summer program rowing the dorys the athletics were good for me. I ski, ride mountain bike and fitness run. I don't think I would be doing those things if I had not gone to Hyde.
I have talked to a couple of folks that were there when I was, off list. They have told me of some really horrifing personal problems they had there. I flew under the radar when I was there. I never spoke in meetings. I gave the bare minimum in seminars. I never broke any of the rules. So I was never the object of Joe's attention.
There you got me monologuing.
I got to bet back to work
A boy named sue
