There is a lot to say about teacher-student relationships. I knwo if I was put in a position of helping a student who was being abused I would do whatever I could to stop the abuse. I know just as a human being we want the best for people and we don't want to see anyone get hurt. But it is also hard as a teacher to keep track of every student in every class and what might be going on in their lives outside of school.
I think it's not our responsibility to check up on our students and their personal lives 24/7. However if a student looks distressed or is behaving out of the ordinary I don't think its wrong for us teachers to ask. For 12 years of their lives we are with them for 8 hours of the day. At some point in time many student will probably look to us as "parents/role models" if they can't go to their own parents. We just need to be there to listen to what they have to say and assess what the next step will be to solve their problems.
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