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Dear Care and Feeding,

The school year in our area begins earlier than most places (in the last week of July), and yesterday my 15-year-old son, “Grady” revealed something about one of his teachers that has me concerned. He came home and told me what he thought was a funny story his teacher shared with his class about a mishap in his dating life. It was nothing overly sexual, just a situation where the teacher talked about how he misread cues from his date and ended up getting a drink thrown on him and her walking out.

However, I still don’t think this is appropriate information for him to be sharing with his students. When I asked if there have been other instances wher

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