Anonymous
Post 10/18/2024 07:38     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

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.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 23:52     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

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
Post 10/17/2024 21:39     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

Sherwood parents/teachers are so entitled and pretentious. GET OVER IT
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 11:17     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

Did he present the poem to the class or did they go out and find it outside of school? Very different situations.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 11:12     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

Chaucer says “high!”
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 08:16     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

+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
Post 10/17/2024 07:38     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

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
Post 10/17/2024 07:31     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

Go read the Song of Songs and come back and tell me if that counts as explicit poetry
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 07:28     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

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
Post 10/17/2024 07:25     Subject: Re:Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

Teachers are allowed to have a life outside of the classroom…
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 07:14     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

So you have only rumor to run on?
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 07:06     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

Old news?

This feels familiar.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 06:58     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

What is meant by explicit poem.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2024 06:56     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

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
Post 10/17/2024 06:38     Subject: Explicit writing by Sherwood teacher

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?