Those short skirts and low-cut tops that accompany the warming late spring weather can be fantastic if you're a hormonal teenage boy. For thousands of male high school teachers in the Bay Area, however, higher temperatures and rising hemlines are anything but a welcome development. The last few days before summer vacation can present an uncomfortable no-win situation -- where teachers must either ignore distracting clothing choices and dress code violations by their female students, or find creative ways to confront the problem.
...Yosha Bourgea, who taught high school in Windsor and currently teaches middle school students in Sonoma County, said he's also very reluctant to call students on inappropriate dress -- because "all it takes to ruin a teaching career forever is the perception of wrongdoing."
"Any time you bring it up with a student, it's risky," said Bourgea, who is 32. "It can quickly turn into a situation where a girl is telling people that 'he said I was trashy.' "
..."I was told by an older teacher my first week on the job: 'Don't be in a room with a female student without someone else there,' " Bourgea said. "And I don't do it."
This from the San Francisco Chronicle:
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