Garvey - he was practically screaming, "HEY LOOK I'M PERVERTED
   BUT GEE GOSH I'M JUST JOKING HAHA AREN'T I ADORABLE?" Yeah,
   someone should've pulled him aside years ago and said, "Um,
   look. Don't do that, 'k? Really. Just... don't - unless you'd
   like a psych eval"

   Regarding Michael Cieboter -
   Whatever his intentions, he shouldn't be teaching. Talk about
   poor judgement on his part:

   "According to court filings, the student received a Facebook
   message from Cieboter on Feb. 7, telling her that her brother
   was receiving poor grades at school. The student told police she
   ignored the message because she did not want to speak with a
   former teacher on Facebook."

   Too chummy. He sent a private message to a former student. It
   wasn't his student anymore. Plus, he shouldn't be talking about
   another student's grades with anybody, even if it's the family
   UNLESS it's those for whom he was "in loco parentis" for. Any
   contact with former students, i think would be fine in a PUBLIC
   forum. But private message? Not a student of yours? Talking
   _about_ another student? No, no no. Just wrong decisions all
   around.

   With or without butt-pic, poor judgement and really should've
   known better. The courts will determine his intentions and being
   relieved of his teaching duties was a wise choice on the
   districts part. I get annoyed when situations like this happen
   because I *was going* to go into teaching. Middle school, the
   'talented + gifted" and what they call 'slow learners" for some
   reason. I don't know why they're called "differently brained" -
   we're all differently brained.

   Anyway, I didn't. No money in it. Single guy. No intention of
   any partners. Dedicated. Male. All red-flags that would've
   pointed to....

   "oh wait, nvm - there's nothing wrong here - Ken's one of the
   good ones"

   IN THE END...

   but the chances for something looking not quite right? Too much
   pressure and not worth the potential for mischaracterisation,
   especially in the environment of the early 90s.

   So yeah, I see several perspectives whenever one of these cases
   comes to my attention. I ask myself, "What if it was *me* up
   there? Did I do it?" and I look at the facts as presented.
   Garvey? 100% perv. Cieboter? Wait and see but get him out of the
   classroom pronto.

   More nails in the coffin for males in teaching and I'm glad I
   didn't make it a life choice. I wouldn't have done any of those
   things because I'm not a pervert. I wanted to teach because I
   saw what teachers were doing wrong in school and I wanted to "do
   it right".

   But instead, I stand out the outskirts and criticize and teach
   people stuff wherever they are. On a different planet, I
   would've been a Robin Williams Dead Poet's Society. *sigh* oh
   well.