The Teacher/Student Relationship Reaches its Logical Conclusion
Got my new certificate in the mail last week. It’s one of the new Professional Certificates, because I messed the deadline to be on the old (read: easier) program by one quarter. Happily I’m now on the 150 clock-hour system, which is pretty easy to get.
Anyhow, when they sent out my certificate they also tucked in a copy of the Code of Professional Conduct. I decided not to take it personally. As I read through it this caught my eye:
WAC 180-87-080 Sexual Misconduct With Students. Unprofessional conduct includes the commission by an educational practitioner of any sexually exploitive act with or to a student including, but not limited to, the following:
My question: when the hell would the teacher ever be married to the student? I can’t quite get my mind wrapped around that one. Has it ever happened?
Anyhow, when they sent out my certificate they also tucked in a copy of the Code of Professional Conduct. I decided not to take it personally. As I read through it this caught my eye:
WAC 180-87-080 Sexual Misconduct With Students. Unprofessional conduct includes the commission by an educational practitioner of any sexually exploitive act with or to a student including, but not limited to, the following:
- Any sexual advance, verbal or physical.
- Sexual intercourse as defined in RCW 9A.44.010
- Indecent exposure as defined in RCW 9A.88.010
- Sexual contact, i.e., the intentional touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a student except to the extent necessary and appropriate to attend to the hygienic or health needs of the student;
- PROVIDED, That the provisions of this section shall not apply if at the time of the sexual conduct the participants are married to each other.
My question: when the hell would the teacher ever be married to the student? I can’t quite get my mind wrapped around that one. Has it ever happened?
posted by Ryan at 10:54 AM
3 Comments:
It sure has happened. I know a female teacher who married a male student in 1980. They are still happily married. I know a few males who married females. A teacher beginning a career at 21 is not that much older than students.
I always marry my high school students before having sex with them, precisely to avoid conflicts like those described in the rules.
NYC Educator: That seems like a wise and sensible policy. You're lucky to teach high school ;-)
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