Liesje
Blue Crack Addict
I feel kinda bad for male teachers and what they have to deal with as far as not every using language a student could interpret as sexual. I guess everyone has their own boundaries though. "Sweety" for me is across the line, but maybe that's because one of the most well-liked teachers (father, husband, baseball coach) at my high school got caught taping his neighbor changing and I've been totally weirded out ever since.
Overall, I think it's best and safest to have male teachers work with guys on sex ed and female teachers work with girls. We did it this way and it was WAY more informative and effective b/c people are going to get more useful answers to questions they might not normally ask a teacher of the opposite sex. This was in 5th grade and my teacher was a guy so in regular class we saw all the videos and read the books, etc, but then we split girls and guys and spent classes asking questions. I don't know about the guys, but the girls had LOTS of questions we'd NEVER have asked a guy teacher and some were things a guy honestly wouldn't know (like how to use tampons....this was before we had periods so we didn't know yet). I think I'd be pretty grossed out if my 5th grade teacher said I could lick a condom..."um....yeah, after you!"
Overall, I think it's best and safest to have male teachers work with guys on sex ed and female teachers work with girls. We did it this way and it was WAY more informative and effective b/c people are going to get more useful answers to questions they might not normally ask a teacher of the opposite sex. This was in 5th grade and my teacher was a guy so in regular class we saw all the videos and read the books, etc, but then we split girls and guys and spent classes asking questions. I don't know about the guys, but the girls had LOTS of questions we'd NEVER have asked a guy teacher and some were things a guy honestly wouldn't know (like how to use tampons....this was before we had periods so we didn't know yet). I think I'd be pretty grossed out if my 5th grade teacher said I could lick a condom..."um....yeah, after you!"