Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

[Anonymous]

So there’s an adult explicit “ poem” circulating the students at Sherwood that apparently a male English teacher there wrote. Students/parents have brought it to the attention of admin but he’s still there teaching the kids.
Does anyone know what’s going on?

[Anonymous]

Where was it published?

I think there is a difference between whether he was published in a reputable journal/publication of note (Ploughshares, The New Yorker, etc) and someone then discovered that their English teacher was a conventionally published author, or whether he wrote an explicit poem on his own time and decided it would be a good idea to share it with his high school students.

[Anonymous]

What is meant by explicit poem.

[Anonymous]

Old news?

This feels familiar.

[Anonymous]

So you have only rumor to run on?

[Anonymous]

Teachers are allowed to have a life outside of the classroom…

[Anonymous]

Unless he gave it to a student, this is a non issue. Students probably shouldn't be passing around explicit poems, but I wouldn't make a thing about it.

[Anonymous]

Go read the Song of Songs and come back and tell me if that counts as explicit poetry

[Anonymous]

Unless we are missing details, non issue. My kid once had a teacher who the kids ended up googling and found some of his writing online. It was…. not school appropriate. But also not threatening or harmful or anything that would require further action. Teachers are people too.

[Anonymous]

+1 to everyone saying teachers are people. Assuming he took reasonable steps to separate his school and poet personas, this is on the kids for passing it around.

[Anonymous]

Chaucer says “high!”

[Anonymous]

Did he present the poem to the class or did they go out and find it outside of school? Very different situations.

[Anonymous]

Sherwood parents/teachers are so entitled and pretentious. GET OVER IT

[Anonymous]

What a great opportunity for you, OP, to model respect to your child. Some smart-ass kids dug around into a teacher's online life and found some writing, and decided to circulate it in school to show what a creep he is, and parents decided to join. This is a human person whose life is being disrupted over.... well, maybe over a poem that he maybe wrote that's maybe inappropriate for school.

I don't anything about the situation, I'm just speculating everything here. But in your place, I would tell my kid that it's not cool to try to embarrass somebody like this, and to go after their livelihood without real evidence of danger. Writing a sexy poem and keeping it in one's private life is not a crime, nor an indication that the guy is unfit for teaching.

Teachers are adults and are allowed to have lives and do legal things like watch porn, write/read erotica, drink alcohol, and say bad words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So there’s an adult explicit “ poem” circulating the students at Sherwood that apparently a male English teacher there wrote. Students/parents have brought it to the attention of admin but he’s still there teaching the kids.
Does anyone know what’s going on?

Unless it’s got a pedophilia theme, or he gave it to students himself I don’t see much wrong with it.