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Deberg_1990 · 03-01-2012, 12:42 PM

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

listopencil · 03-01-2012, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Okie_Apparition

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

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.

PunkinDrublic · 03-01-2012, 01:32 PM

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

listopencil · 03-01-2012, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

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.

In58men · 03-01-2012, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

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

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

Girls are suckers

saphojunkie · 03-01-2012, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Can you really stop true love?

“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

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

**Easy 6** · 03-01-2012, 01:42 PM

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

listopencil · 03-01-2012, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by saphojunkie

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

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

listopencil · 03-01-2012, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by scott free

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

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

Simplicity · 03-01-2012, 01:44 PM

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

Bump · 03-01-2012, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

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

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?

**Rain Man** · 03-01-2012, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

"we really do like each other"...

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

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."

**Bowser** · 03-01-2012, 01:48 PM

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

Braincase · 03-01-2012, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

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."

Check this box...

Demonpenz · 03-01-2012, 01:49 PM

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....

Okie_Apparition · 03-01-2012, 01:49 PM

It's a combover with bright pink fingernails

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