Where were these teachers when I was 18??
“Where were these teachers when I was 18??”
Thinking back, I can’t conceive of any of my high school teachers having sex with a student. Maybe it happened and nobody was aware of it. But I doubt it. What has changed is the social structure. Being considered an adult has been happening later and later. She was living in her parent’s house. Psychologically, that makes her still a child...or on par with the eighteen-year-old. Even though some of my high school teachers in the sixties and early seventies, were just out of college and not much older than the students they taught, they lived on their own and were, as far as I knew, in relationships or married. The gulf between us was immeasurably huge.
In the mid-sixties, our science class had tables instead of desks...
Our teacher one day called me to come out in the hall....
She said she saw me rubbing the girl’s leg sitting next to me and I was going to hell...But first ,she would pray for me....
She got down on her knees and began tp pray and I spoke up...
I said, “Miss Barton, if you pray for anything, pray that I get a little of that tonight...”
That did it...Straight to the office......