Can a teacher date a parent?

[Moonlightfrog]

Can a teacher or TA be dismissed for dating a parent of a student (student not in the teachers classes)?

Ethically it's iffy if they teach your child.

It may also be prohibited by their specific employment contract.

Your question marks are a bit obnoxious, OP.

One of my teachers at primary school had an affair with the father of one of my classmates and didn't lose her job, although the guy she was having the affair with was very much married.

Sorry, I didn’t realise question marks are obnoxious. I was giving examples of why I would want him to disclose.

They don’t teach my child, they are not even in the same building as my child. I don’t know what his contract states….I have asked but got no answers.

Well you’ll have to disclose the relationship to the school now surely? A romantic relationship that has ended… even more important the teacher stays away from your child

I know a teacher who had an affair with a parent and then married him

A quick Google search suggests this really is a no no situation. (This may apply more to a child in the parents actual class)......
Think you are sensible to have ended it with them. Teacher could still be in trouble for hiding the relationship and not being honest about it, especially if you knew each other prior to your child starting at the school.
It could also be for something other than concern for their job......

No. I didn't end it during this thread.

It was discussed.

Nothing wrong with it. I'd be relatively discreet though.

Everyone I know had a teacher who was “suddenly” in a relationship with a pupil weeks after the pupil left high school and those teachers are still teaching 🤢

There must be thousands of couples where one of them is a teacher and the couples children go to the school surely? So a parent:teacher relationship.

I knew a teacher who was put one night and got chatted up and the guy asked for her number, she wasn't interested. The following week he arrived into he'd classroom with his wife for parents' evening 😆

My cousin's wife had an affair with and ran off with, their son's teacher.

I've just seen that film today and there was a title saying New Years Eve a Year Later... so it wasn't just a couple of weeks after the Christmas concert.

If this is Lorelai Gilmore, don’t let Max Madina get away. He was the best of the bunch.

That made me laugh!

No problem, it is just that people might have different advice based on whether the dc is primary or secondary age.

Yes. It’s often in the contract not to date parents. I’ve known a teacher get together with a parent who then couldn’t get promotion. What he’s saying is reasonable. I’d see him discreetly and if he’s your soul mate you can ride it out. Your child will leave the school at some point.

No problem. Consenting adults. Some teachers actually manage to teach their own children. How do you think it works in small communities with only one school?

Why would it be a problem?