Teacher - Student Abuse - Murshidabad

When ?

Yesterday

There's nothing remotely new or shocking about the concept of teachers taking advantage of students.

You might want to educate yourself to the fact that some students try taking advantage of teachers as well.

Teachers have crushes on students and vice versa (Dylan anyone?)..

Murshidabad URL - http://telegraphindia.com/1071108/asp/bengal/story_8525018.asp

Orkut has been duly updated for comments and input.

I recall a particularly handsome male tutor-slash-musician-slash-relative whom i never crushed on personally (too old), but my friends went nuts over him like he was Jim Morrison. It was silly the way they'd queue up to go to his classes just to sit and stare at him while he taught ( he was a good teacher btw), some people even claimed that he reciprocated their emotions. Yuch.

Then there was another female tutor. Lord help anyone who got on the wrong side of her at any time of the day. She gave "volatile" a new dimension altogether, but for money and male students, it was all toned down to a degree that although there wasn't a free show on in front of your face, you just knew something was wrong.

There's a teacher at a famously "vigilant" college who is famed for more than his erm, educational prowness. Everyone knows. The girls blog and write odes to him quite shamelessly. :)
There's another teacher at the same college who has a reputation for a little more than just odes on a blog by a student. No matter how many insults i get for writing this, i will do so - student-teacher abuse.

When are student-teacher relationships non-abusive ?

For one, when both are adults! Preferably when they are not in that uncomfortable hierarchy of "me teacher, you student" and that creates an automatic imbalance in the relationship, like it or not. Keeping it out of the classroom would help.