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Damn you, Willis! (Dumbing of Age)
Masterpiece:
I am a TA and had sex with one of my students.
I am somewhat ashamed, but it's not like I have real power over grades. But there's an implication that I could, and that could lead to controversy.
I'm a bit afraid of that.
Method of Madness:
Wait, you're a grad student? Or do they have undergrad TAs?
chaospersonified:
What makes it questionable, I think, is that whether or not a TA could actually do something, the student might think they could. They could lie, and that's um, evil? Fucking sickening?
The power might be imagined, but it's still a TA manipulating a (presumably) younger woman.
Masterpiece, I don't know your situation, but you seem a decent-enough person that you'd have made it clear this girl wouldn't be receiving any different treatment as far as class is concerned. That's the major problem with that sort of power-imbalanced-relationship, and while the school system might not recognize the difference, a reasonable person would. If reasonable people don't see it as problematic, it's less-likely to be reported, which isn't a promise, but it's better than nothing.
Mlle Germain:
I don't know whether Masterpiece is a grad or an undergrad, but in Germany you can be a "Tutor" as an undergrad, which is kind of like a TA in that you teach example classes and mark the example sheets that people hand in, but there is usually a boss-TA who is a post-doc or maybe PhD student, who sets the problems for the example sheets and who supervises you. You often help marking the exam, but there's several of you, so you're not guaranteed to see every student's exam, and anything questionable willl be checked by the boss-TA or the lecturer.
I was a Tutor for the first time in my second year; I liked it. It was a bit funny that at least half of my students were older than me, but I mostly didn't have authority issues.
cesium133:
As a TA I once had a student who tried flirting with me and even asked me out on a date right after the final. After final grades came out she never talked to me again, though. :roll:
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