My teacher wants to see a movie with me.........

Ever since I can remember, I have had teachers. Some for the better....some for the worse. But in any case I can say that no matter who the teacher, that if the opportunity presents itself, try to bond with that teacher. The stereotype people have today is that if an older human is friends with another human that is well younger than themselves, that it makes them "strange". Because of all the wrong doings that occur in the world today, we assume this.
For example take this scenario. Lets say we have a 11 year old girl who often likes to visit the single elder man who lives down the street. This single elder man is very kind and is welcoming to everyone, including the parents of the young girl that often visits him. What would you think? I can assure you that the parents would not think too keen of there little girl often being alone with a lonely old man, even though like I mentioned earlier that he is a really nice guy. Its not anyones fault, but society for this. That is why it is hard for anyone (including teachers) to bond with the younger crowd. I will admit that it would not be normal if that teacher wanted to spend quality time with a student and that there are many sick minded people out there. But that is what teachers would be labled as if they were to be friends with students. But it is not for me to judge how complex student-teacher bonds should be. Because every teacher, student, and society has there own standards.

But there is something I do know. For the good teachers out there keep trying to be the best you can be. Whether its just teaching or trying to bond with your students to make a great learning experience...keep it up.

But for the students, parents, and the rest of society with these disturbing stereotypes...pardon my french but, what in the hell is your problem. The world is has a lot of good people in it. More good than bad. Of course there are weird people out there, and sometimes you cant control somethings that happen. But there is a point when a child reaches a certain age that they should KNOW the difference between right and wrong. Then the parents, as well as the children, should know who too trust. If you allow your kid to meet up with pedaphiles on the interen, you're a horrible parent. If your child is so young that they are defensless and you leave them alone with strangers, you're a horrible parent. All of society takes the easy way out, labeling every person that they dont know as a pervert and a lunatic. I guarantee if people from all over the country read my post their response would be about how they can identify freaks and that they have lists of people they know not to trust. I response would be somethinh like this...."If you can identify the weird people, tell me if you can identify the good people..."

Dont get me wrong...there are good parents, students, and societies out there who have the right mindset. But there are people out there who dont have the right mindset and abuse there power. The article I read proves that students and parents abuse there power. There are teachers who have articles in the paper written about them, and when you read them you think..."all they did was try to be friends.... I dont get what the problem is." These anger me. But the articles about sick people who actually do sick things...please write as much as you can.

Bottom line, after reading me rambling on...if you were to take one thing away from this, let it be this. There are bad people out there...But there are more good than bad. It is up to you to decide who is good and who is bad. But it is your fault if something bad happened to you because you trusted the wrong person. But if a student is old enough to ride a bike with out training wheels, they should be able to judge right from wrong. So dont label every older person as someone you cant trust. Because not only are you hurting those teachers, you are hurting yourself......