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[quote=Anonymous][quote=doodlebug][quote=Anonymous]Pediatrician here.

This is absolutely not ok.

This is not the French teacher giving a peck to her student when she sees her at the park.

This is a teacher kissing a child only when alone and only showing this "affection" to this child alone. Huge red flags to me.[/quote] This is a 7 yr old's version of events. How could the child possibly know whether or not it happens to other kids? He/she can't know that. Especially if it happens in private has the kid says. I'm suspect of the child's version of events, but maybe I'm just not paranoid enough.[/quote]

To me the most suspicious part of the story is that "it happens when no other kids can see it" and now we are just assuming that somehow this teacher is ALONE with OP's kid? When??? Where? This just does not happen in a normal elementary school setting. So if I were OP, I would first investigate the set of circumstances surrounding the "being alone with the teacher" scenario (unless somehow the teacher/student are the last ones in the classroom to go out for recess??...or there is some kind of divider screen in the classroom behind which the teacher steals random kisses? I just don't get where this would be possible.) So I'd start there. And if it turns out that that part turns out to be true and possible, then I'd send a message to teacher that another kid reported that he/she saw teacher kiss DC on the face and it got back to me and I am uncomfortable with that. So even if it was simply out of kindness, it needs to cease. Then see what her/his response is. If teacher confirms it, I'm sorry--but I would go to the principal and have the teacher dismissed. If teacher denies that it happened then I would tell DC to let me know if it EVER happens again. (It will NOT since, if it ever did in the first place, teacher would not dare try it again.) But I guess this allows me to give teacher the benefit of the doubt that it is even taking place as DC describes. If teacher confirms that it is, then to me that is a fireable offense.[/quote]

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