I certainly don't want to fall into the "Oh! If only I hadn't exposed the youth to something upsetting, this never would have happened!" false sense of responsibility.
I worry that in their need to DO Something, the literature (or me) will be blamed, and what I can do will be censored (a sensitive topic for me.) And since I've been here for 17-18 years, there certainly is an attitude of "She should've known better" that is harsher than what the newer teachers face.
While I don't want to trigger post traumatic stress on anyone, it's probably good that the counselors know where Mary Jane is on the issue, so it can be dealt with more.
I agree that movies, television and books are much more explicit, and that codes of honor among the bad guys is pretty quaint. All the girls in the class were pretty sure that the redcoats were far from honorable. They drank the landlord's ale.
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I worry that in their need to DO Something, the literature (or me) will be blamed, and what I can do will be censored (a sensitive topic for me.) And since I've been here for 17-18 years, there certainly is an attitude of "She should've known better" that is harsher than what the newer teachers face.
While I don't want to trigger post traumatic stress on anyone, it's probably good that the counselors know where Mary Jane is on the issue, so it can be dealt with more.
I agree that movies, television and books are much more explicit, and that codes of honor among the bad guys is pretty quaint. All the girls in the class were pretty sure that the redcoats were far from honorable. They drank the landlord's ale.