I'd bet pretty good money her father wasn't in the home. A 17 year old girl who is reasonably attractive and should have normal options doesn't do this without father issues.

Only one thing is for certain here: this girl will never have any sort of a "normal" life from this point on.

This may be legal, but it is definitely ****ed up and deeply wrong. People like cops, coaches and teachers who have positions of authority over children and abuse them for their own sexual gratification should be held to a higher standard.

The standard I have in mind would leave them publicly twitching at the end of a rope.

I agree, but she's not a "children"

Do you really believe he waited until she turned 18 to tap that shit? Really?

Really? How did you arrive at that conclusion?

I heard her father caught her posting some shit about him on Facebook. Afterwards, he made a video of him shooting her laptop.

I definitely agree in theory that you have to keep a distance, but I've always wondered about teachers' situations and how difficult it is over the course of a career. More so at the college level, but I guess at the upper high school level as well.

You're a teacher who teaches 3 courses, and there are 10 females in each course. You get to know them over the course of 16 weeks or so. Now multiply this by 3 semesters a year over the course of a 30-year teaching career.

You've now gotten the opportunity to meet and know almost 3,000 young women. If you ascribe to the theory that there's not just one woman in the world for every man and that (for example) 1 percent of women are good marriage material for you, the odds are pretty good that you'll see 30 women over the course of that career that you fall in love with during those 16 weeks. It doesn't seem infeasible that sparks could ignite.

The numbers are different for high school, but the theory's the same. I wonder how many high school teachers and college professors, if being completely honest, would tell you that they've had a crush on X number of students in their career, even if the majority never act on it.

In my grad school, two professors ended up marrying students in my class, plus or minus a year. It was minorly scandalous, particularly since one of them had been married, but life went on for them.

cdcox, what say you?

snaggletooth....pass

well this site eagerly anticipates when a hot celebrity chick is about to turn 18. Have you forgotten the threads like "Miley Cyrus is 3 months away from 18!!!!"

Do you seriously believe that their relationship is going to work out? This guy has been "courting" her since she was 15. Now it may have started off as innocent, and she may very well initiated taking things to a more serious level, but it was all guided by an adult. A teacher at that. This girl has no clue what she wants, because in all likelihood, he may be all that she's ever had.

Things will end between them, and a messed up teenager will be all that is left.

They ARE held to a higher standard, usually by school policy. If this happened in Texas, however, he could be sentenced to up to TWENTY YEARS in prison. Texas removed the age provision when passing anti-student/teacher relationship legislation about five years ago.

They're of legal age.... Let's move along; nothing to see here!

Something like this happened at my school when I was in high school. When I was a junior, my chemistry teacher married one of his former students a couple of months after she graduated. Rumors were that they married so quickly because she was pregnant. I don't know if that's true, though. He was single so didn't leave a wife for the student like this guy did.

He was teaching the next year, so nothing was done about it. Nothing was really even said about it. This was in 1981, though. Times change.

That same situation happened in the 90's in a neighboring town from where I grew up. Then when I was in school, one of the teachers decided he was going to leave at the end of the year and then knocked up a married teacher and a student. He ended up marrying the student.