Teachers of Reddit, have you ever had a student attempt to make sexual advances towards you in hopes of changing their grades? If so, what's your story?

IANATeacher but:

I had an almost-peer relationship with a teacher in my final year of high school, probably because he was young enough to just be out of school himself and hadn't yet learned he was supposed to be the only adult in the room.

I watched two female classmates coming on to him, and later on I asked him why he hadn't done anything about it. It turns out he was 'deer in the headlights' and just had no idea how to handle it so he froze up. So while he didn't put a stop to it, he didn't encourage it or let anything serious happen.

He was fully aware of what could happen to his career and what his wife might have to say about it, in addition to simply not having any interest in the girls in question.

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