Getting used to their teachers having lives

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:02:00 -0400
/society

Want to see what the society’s slide to transparency looks like on the ground?

Here’s one case:

This diary clearly made the students uncomfortable. There was, for one thing, a perception that she was writing about them (though I didn’t see it), but also a general discomfort with the idea of a teacher frankly discussing her sex life (which I also missed, apparently… I’m not sure the students and I visited the same link, now that you mention it). Or is it just the familiar student awkwardness at accepting teachers as human beings? How did that feel at 18? It’s hard for me to get a sense of that, because my parents were (are) teachers most of my life, and I’ve always thought of teachers as having lives outside the classroom.