Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

[Anonymous]

Hide the Catullus!

[Anonymous]

There was a teacher at Blake who had also published an explicit book. He is no longer at Blake but not related to the book, I don’t think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

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Is this a published piece, OP? If it is only a poem that students say the teacher wrote, it may not even be true

[Anonymous]

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

They should ban the Bible in public schools.

[Anonymous]

OP,

He's allowed to write whatever he wants, as long as he does not distribute material that violates school policy to his students .

If the students found it and circulate it themselves... it's not the teacher's fault.

So unless you can prove that the teacher intentionally distributed it to his students... you can't do anything.

[Anonymous]

My gosh, does OP think we should shame or chase teachers away from the profession for having adult interests/hobbies?

[Anonymous]

Op has not come back to answer any questions.

[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?

Get a life. I hope the kids do have an English teacher who writes his own poems. Especially explicit ones.