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Teacher-Friends
"It's definitely not like those forbidden teacher-student love affairs you see on TV- it's all totally appropriate."
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By Chelsea Vargas
When we graduated from our small private high school a couple months ago, me AND my friends all swore we'd never go back. So the other day, I was surprised when our conversation turned into a competition over who spends the most time with certain High School faculty members.
It's definitely not like those forbidden teacher-student love affairs you see on TV- it's all totally appropriate. But sometimes it seems like my friends do have little crushes. Ultimately, the competition's about proving we're mature enough to hang out with adults and be treated as an equal, especially since as college freshmen, we'll be surrounded by adults.
As the conversation continued and I got more and more desperate to find a teacher that I talked to more than anyone else, something struck me. Aren't we past these juvenile games? Then I remembered a certain spectacular English teacher who I talk to all the time. I had finally won the competition I decided only seconds earlier wasn't worth competing in - and man did it feel good.
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