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Students are vulnerable to seduction by their
teachers. The seduction may take any of many forms:
religious, legalistic, moralistic, ethical, scientific,
technocratic, artistic, literary, political, economic,
affectional, perceptual, role-model, sexual, etc. In
seduction the victim is mislead regarding values, lead to
exclusive values which will undermine the integrity of the
victim---while apparently occasioning fulfillment of the
victim. Teachers may seduce their students with the best
of intentions, while behaving properly according to moral
"laws", and appearing to act in their students' best
interests, with the blessings of parents and
administrators, with all quite out in the open; and it
still not be evident to anybody that seduction is in
progress. Via collusions the participants and spectators
may not recognize the nature of the seductive process;
even so students are vulnerable and seduced by their
teachers into life-styles which violate their integrity
through internalization of conflicting values.
Student vulnerability will tend towards equality with
teacher vulnerability as the value-conflicts which are
present in their relationships are brought out into the
open. So long as the students because of their relative
immaturity are less able to perceive the value-conflicts,
they will be more vulnerable than are their teachers. It
is not vulnerability which should be sought, but mutuality
of vulnerability. The injustice of the seductive process
is occasioned by the lack of mutuality---with the student
having less maturity, insight, power, and resource to
grievance procedures. Formal legalistic procedures are
relatively impotent to deal with problems of student
justice related to seduction. Other more positive steps
will serve as better preventive efforts than any formal
curative efforts are likely to be.
Balanced affirmations of students' potentials for
integrative living will help occasion mutuality in the
relationships between students and their teachers. When
their relationships are pursued for the unilateral
advantage of any participant, there is likely to be
injustice in a seductive process of one kind or another.
It is often futile to attempt to make such injustice
"illegal".
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