Can teachers and students be just friends?

teachers and students can be friends.. If you cant trust your teacher then who can you trust? If a teacher is your friend usually you can trust them. My best professors were also my friends, or at least were friendly. I’d rather have them as friends though to be honest. Its good to see the teacher as human, rather than some stuffed up person who just comes in and gives you assignments.

Now if you are talking about a male/female teacher student relationship it gets tricky. I think in this case the person can be friends, but NOTHING MORE, even after the student is graduated, its extremely inappropriate- at any age. I think having teachers who are the same sex and your friend is fine.. But I think people of the opposite sex should watch out, I honestly think that their relationship could take a different turn- by accident or not very rapidly and could def backfire for both of them..

but that being said- Teachers should try to make an effort to be friends.. what the extent of that friendship entails is up to them.. Do they go out for coffee or dinner? Just chit chat? Travel together? Friends is a really general term, as some relationships may be closer than others. I think as long as the student can still respect the teacher its fine..

In my opinion, it’s probably best that they are not friends. People have many different types of relationships with one another, teacher/student, parent/child, employer/employee, friendships, etc. When you mix any of those between the same two people, you start to blur the lines of which role you are playing in any given situation. Often times, feelings can get hurt when a situation forces one type of relationship, when one of the members was expecting another.

That’s not to say that they can’t be “friendly” towards each other, but a line needs to be drawn that a teacher is not a friend. They are there to do a job and see that the student is educated. Kids should have plenty of other friends, without having to fall back on teachers to fill that role.

No.It’s totally find if it’s a healthy one.I had a teacher when i was a child that i felt very close to and we communicated outside of school.As I got older I looked at her as a mentor and like a mother figure and someone i could just talk to.Everyone knew we were close.I am a grown woman now and still in almost daily contact with this teacher.Now that I am an adult we do refer to each other as friends but I do not look at her the same way i do my regular friends my own age but we still have tons of fun together.ANd I always call her by her last name never just her first name but still we are friends.

You know, it really depends on your definition of friends. They should not be a friend that you hang out with after school, but the relationship between a student and a teacher should be very friend-like in the way of trust and understanding.

Well, as a student I would have loved to have been friends with some of my teachers. And in college, it was great. But as a teacher, they actually focus on and train teachers to draw a fine line between being kind and courteous and friendly and actually being friends with students.

Friends, no, but friendly, yes. Teachers and students need to have a separation, called respect. If in college, it is possible as the age gap is less, and both are adults, or at least are supposed to be. Be respectful to your teachers and keep a friendly atmosphere, but remember they are just like a boss, and have to be respected, even if you don’t agree with them on something.

Being “friends” with your teacher is different from how you are friends with your peers. For example, you tell your friends everything, go hang out with them, and you may become extremely close. With your teacher, even if the both of you get along very well and often talk to each other very casually, there will always be limits and some sort of distance because of your age difference, because of their job, or both. It is ok to keep in contact later on as long as you keep those limits in mind.

My mother became friends with some of her students and they remained friends until her death. I still correspond with my first grade teacher. One of my best friends was my college science instructor.

Friends are friends that’s all that counts.

Of course not, where did you get the idea it isn’t ok? My AP Calculus teacher was one of the coolest adults I’ve met – he came to my house with my friends and we had a Magic: The Gathering tournament. Good times.

no y should it be wrong. If u know ur limits and just want to be friends there is nothing bad about it u r friends with ur parents, family memembers and realitives y not teachers. Just know ur limits and there is nothing wrong with that.