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I am a male, aged 33.  "bias toward the ladies" is that as a teacher he treated my female classmates in a more friendly manner than the male students but to a degree that it was [b]NOT[/b] detrimental such as females getting better grades.  In general it is probably not good but many other Whitman teachers or teachers at Wood Acres Elem or professors in college had their biases toward either males or females or students they clearly liked better.  It's a natural human tendency, I have coworkers who I like better than others.

As for the term lady or ladies, I am not sure what a better term is, for me I prefer not to think of 17 year old as girls.  During my WW years they called the female teams the "Lady Vikes" and that was fair game.

Back when I was in high school, it was a different world, smartphones and free texting were still a decade away.  Shipley giving rides didn't set off red flags since crew kids had to be on the Potomac at dawn.  The house thing was weird but at the time not illegal nor against any rules.

That said, we live in a different world today.  I have a two year old son and my wife and I plan on having discussions with him about grooming, and the actions of adults in positions of authority bestowing special favors.[/quote]

Thank you for your honesty there. I think what I draw from your observations is that ---as a high school male--ou thought some things, such as having students at his home, didn't make sense as suitable teacher behavior (or as you say, 'weird'). Other things (rides) didn't set off alarm bells because you rationalized them away, as Shipley expected everyone to do...but they still stood out to you at the time as ways that his behavior deviated from the norm. I think this indicates that teenagers have instincts when something is off, but that they don't trust those instincts or listen to them all the time, probably because no one else questions it, or that it doesn't rise to the level that the teenagers know is black-and-white wrong.

(Btw, fair enough about the 'ladies' terminology). [/quote]

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