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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have things changed regarding professional boundaries for teachers? I only finished high school 10 years ago, and teachers definitely talked with students about our personal lives and gave mentoring-type advice. I only saw good or neutral things result from it.

The most obvious explanation for the teacher’s comment is that the boy is bad news.[/quote]

Now it's frowned upon because parents think the teachers are grooming their kids to abuse them. Then they blame the schools when their kids have mental health or substance abuse problems and one of the causes is that kids feel like they have no one to talk to about their feelings. It's a catch 22. [/quote]

That’s too bad. My spouse went through a very hard time as a teen when his parents went through an ugly divorce and a parent abandoned him, and a teacher who made a point to reach out to him on a personal level and listen was a real lifeline.[/quote]

There's a pretty big difference between providing a listening ear to a kid with a tough home life situation and asking a student, unprompted, why she hasn't dumped her boyfriend yet.  If OP's DD had been talking to this teacher about relationship problems she wouldn't be so thrown by the comments in the first place. [/quote]
This exactly.[/quote]

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