California Teacher, 41 resigns after leaving wife, kids for student, 18
 

Can you really stop true love?


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...ormer-teacher/



An angry California mother is alleging abuse now that her 18-year-old daughter is living with her former high school teacher, who left his wife and children to move into an apartment with the young woman.

James Hooker, 41, quit his job after going public with his love for Jordan Powers, who stopped attending classes at her Modesto high school and left home to be with her former business teacher.

The girl’s mother is skeptical of the couple’s claims that nothing sexual happened between them, and exactly when the relationship became physical has become the center of a police investigation.

“She looked up to him,” mom Tammie Powers said. “[He was in the] position of an educator, [and you] don’t abuse your student. Period. She’s still in high school. She still lives at home. She has a curfew. … That’s not OK.”

The couple maintains that their feelings for each other blossomed slowly by spending time together during and after school, and then via phone calls and text messages. The two first met when Jordan was a high school freshman at James Enochs High School, but they say they only developed romantic feelings after she turned 18 in September.

“[He's] my best friend. I mean, he’s more than just a lover,” Jordan Powers said of Hooker, who has a daughter a year younger than her and attended the same high school.

Hooker said that while Jordan Powers was a student in his business class, he didn’t think twice about her. “She was just a student,” he said. “There was no attraction. There was nothing that was out of the ordinary, as opposed to any other student. We were very much a teacher-student role.”

Tammie Powers is unconvinced. As soon as she discovered a long log of text message exchanges, she went straight to the police. She waged her own war on Facebook, posting a letter that went viral telling everyone that classmates took photos of her daughter sitting on Hooker’s lap when she was still his student.

She says that she also discovered 8,000 text messages between the two, along with late-night phone calls and email exchanges that took place when she was still a minor.

“That’s pursuit, in my opinion, with some type of intent,” she told ABC News 10 in California.

But none of the late-night calls or endless texts were a red flag of inappropriateness to him, and says that people looking for proof of an unacceptable relationship before Jordan was 18 are just inquisitive about their connection, Hooker said.

“I think that they’re just digging for something that wasn’t there. I mean, of course, they’re going to be curious,” Hooker added. “But I know for a fact that there was nothing.”

Although Jordan has stopped attending classes, she is now doing independent study through the school and plans to walk at her graduation.

Hooker confirmed that he is under investigation by the Modesto Police Department, but is confident he will be completely cleared of any allegations of inappropriate behavior. He said that he understands that people don’t understand their relationship.

“I think the stigma of the teacher-student relationship just makes it messy, makes it really hard for people to get through to the point that we really do like each other, he said. “We really do want to have a future together.”




http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/29/430...gns-after.html

So, she got a Hooker.

Dad needs to do the same thing that German dude did - grab a couple of friends to hold the creepster teacher down and cut his balls off with a butter knife.

You don't take advantage of impressionable 18 year olds when you're over 23, you selfish ****ing loser.

Wow thats hot, where were the hot female teachers like that when I was in school? Oh nevermind the teacher was a guy, cut his balls off and hang him on town square!

41 and still pimpin, lol

Chicks dig guys with business acumen....
and a growing portfolio.

LMAO

Yeah, that'll last.

"we really do like each other"...

...JFC, is this guy the teenager or her? What an asshole.

I think this may be the guy Howard Stern recently interviewed. His daughters hate him and will never speak to him again. Hell of a price to pay for a little tenderoni.

I'm going to have to see nude pics of the 18 year old to pass judgement on this.

Bitch ass - snooping wife... or a hot piece of barely legal tail...

Hmm....

Yeah the tight snatch wins every time

I'm not seeing a statement by the girl's father in the article. No dad at home? It would fit.

I get leaving the wife & kids for say a 25 year old
18 year old girls should be experienced at 18 or so & move the **** on

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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...ly-for-student

I can't imagine forming a real, meaningful relationship with an 18 year old girl. Some of them are very attractive but all you have to do is talk to them for about five minutes.

I'm hoping by the time I'm 41 I'll have saved up enough money to purchase my own teenager.

It's not expensive. You can do it with a candy bar and a stuffed animal.

Just tell any girl that her eyes are beautiful and her smile is amazing.



Girls are suckers

Probably because it's illegal, regardless of her age.

He'll die a bitter & lonely old man, wishing he'd never left his family.

What? Fraternization between students and teachers? It's not illegal just against the rules at every major institution of learning.

He'll die of a heart attack banging a 28 year old woman when he's 51.

I must see a picture of the past wife to past judgement on this case.

we all die sometime, what better way than that?

I give 2 thumbs up to the dude. You only live once, his wife probably turned into a miserable **** like most women do after years of marriage. The guy isn't doing anything illegal, it's pretty weird on her part though, but whatever, right?

I laughed at that, too.

I wonder if he had the shop teacher pass a note to the English teacher who gave it to her, and when she opened it up it said, "Do you like Mr. Hooker? Mr. Hooker likes you."

I keep laughing at the Hooker part. Perfect for this story.

Check this box...

Bunch of haters in here with wives full of gravy fat and bitchy attitudes. Oh well atleast you hog lovin' baldies have a good football team....

It's a combover with bright pink fingernails

This guy is going to have a big conflict of interest at prom. Does he chaperone or does he sneak in alcohol?

and women do the same shit all the time. I know this mildly attractive 38 year old, she's smart as hell, going for some masters or something. She wanted to date me, but I'm not able to be brainwashed or controlled, so that wasn't gonna work out so it never really started. But then she goes and dates this pretty cool 21 year old, he was the stoner dude type you know, likes to party and had a jew-fro, cool dude, but somehow they ended up dating, like you would never expect those 2 to date and then a couple of months later they move in together. She's smart, she like models this guy into what her ideal boyfriend would be, he's a completely different person and she definitely wears the pants in that relationship. He's not allowed to smoke weed anymore or do much of anything really, if he wants to hang out with friends he must be back before she gets home from work, etc. It's pretty interesting watching the brainwashing techniques of women.

Why must we mock true love? Shame on you Chiefsplanet.

Hey, if it's good enough for Doug Hutchinson......

Damn its Scott Pioli.

You don't throw a throw cover over bump

Outstanding.

Creepy, especially since he has a 17 year old daughter.

It is illegal to seduce a student if you are a high school teacher. It doesn't matter if she is 18. The wording is such that an authority figure, such as a teacher or coach, cannot have a relationship with a student, regardless of her age. If the relationship turned sexual at 18, but the grounds for that activity began when she was a student, he could face criminal prosecution.

Exactly what I thought.

LMAO

What a scumbag, she looks like she's 14 too.

LMAO

This.

touch of downs?

http://media.modbee.com/smedia/2012/...RJ3I.St.11.jpg

What's she going to do when that goiter develops a little more

Yeah, I get that. I'm saying is there a law the prohibits teacher/student fraternization in the case of two legal adults?

not bad

http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/abc_...0301_wblog.jpg

She's so in love...he's so dreamy...sigh

We need to find her FaceBook profile to get better pics.

Dude realized he's a balding ugly mofo and will likely never get a chance at something young and tight again so he took his shot.

She'll meet some sweet-talking carnival worker or general laborer and move on in a year or two.

He'll be left with a hell of a hidden camera home video collection and a whole shoe box full of love notes.

I hope to be that day laborer

my search reveals nothing :huh:

Ok, I just blew some of my salad out through my nose at that one...LMAO

That is beyond ridiculous.

Me too. I'm terrible at searching FaceBook. I can't even find myself on there without logging in.

She's already got that "That's not what you said last night" look on her face.

I need to see full body shots of this girl to adequately evaluate. Also, pics of what Hooker left for this teen. While we're at it, shots of his daughter as well.

Maybe they are trying for a reality show.

Problem is, he makes or made teachers money. Now, the ex wife is going to get half plus the kids support money for awhile.

I don't see any other schools hiring him but catholic, but then he has to like boys.

I guess good luck to them both working at hooters together.

She'll leave him when she turns 21 and can get alcohol on her own.

lol...I was just getting ready to say "but he's got a 5 year plan."

Three way?

Some people need to rejoin reality. This 18 year old is not the answer. Jail time should be in his future. Psychological counseling should be in hers.

She still is very fertile. That is the draw back with girls her age he is going to get her pregnant then leave her for his unfertile wife. Douche.

I concur....Dude looks like Scott Pioli! Scary!

Whatever.

They don't perform vasectomy's out where you are?

He looks like a psycho.

Grabbing a young piece of ass deserves jail time? 18 is 18.

Shut up bitch! I hope you die in fire while hanging from your balls in a pit of aids injected snakes. Shut UP!

She's 18 but looks 15. Good for him I guess?

Acceptable though not spectacular. I'd have liked to see you work in an antifreeze base of some sort. Though not mandatory, inviting me to inflict the fatal act upon myself would have raised your score. All in all though a solid effort on your part.

this guy must be on cloud nine.

Yes.

She looks like she's in junior high. The pink fingernails are a nice touch.

...this dude is a pedophile who got lucky cuz she's barely legal but looks a lot younger.

I wonder which one will get tired of the other one first.

Here,here.I know of a similar situation although the ages are like 58 him and 38 her but she has her hooks so far in the poor guy that he's all but alienated all of his friendships.

No you ****ing douch. Aids tree and antifreeze is most overused thing on CP. Too bad you are too dumb to realize repetition since you have the brain capacity of a damn gerbil.

Agreed. With the occasional crash when his wife or daughters call.

:D

WTF with the avatar LMAO

BTW,I hope that everyone that's giving this guy shit is 40+ because if not just you wait. :)