Divorced parent working at same school as child

[BPIII]

Thank you in advance for any help you are able to give me in my search for research about divorced parents working at the same school their child attends. I have been scouring the internet with no luck finding any research of any kind on the pros and cons of having one of the two divorced parents teaching at the same school as their child attends. Is there anyway you can help point me in the right direction? Do you know of any studies done on this subject?

The parents have 50/50 split custody all around and split the week in half with the child who is in 2nd Grade. The child attends one school and the two parents get alone for the most part and do a very good job co-raising the child. The mother is a teacher at another school in a different state but has decided to secretly apply and interview for a position as a teacher at the school her son attends. The father found out about it and is very upset about this and is worried about the mental health of his child.

Do you know or have you heard of any similar situations? I would truly appreciate any information you can give or send my way.

It's fairly common for teachers to work in the same school as their children - I personally wouldn't do it because I'd want to keep the two things seperate, I wouldn't want to have to raise any issues about my child with someone who was also a co-worker, but plenty of people manage it.

I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, every single teacher with children worked in the same school as their children.

I'm not sure why the parents being divorced would make it a bigger issue?

I have lots of questions about this:

Why is the father worried about the mental health of his child? Why is he upset? Is he jealous of the thought of the mother seeing the child more often than he does? If the mother is being interviewed for the job then it's hardly a secret is it? Or should she be asking her ex-husband's permission to apply for a job? And what is 2nd Grade? - how old is the child? (I'm in the UK!)

And finally - why on earth do you care so much about this?

Plenty of my DH's colleagues send their children to the school where they teach and not a single one has been mentally scarred by the experience AFAIK....

Are you a journalist BPIII?
I can't see any other reason why someone would trawl the Internet looking for info about this, then ask us!
It sounds like a non issue to me.............

Some schools prefer to avoid it, some parents do. Others have no issue.
Sounds to me as if the father in this case has an agenda that is nothing much to do with the mental health of his child.