Young School Teacher

[SuperWill19]

I was thinking of a story where a young woman of the age of 20 is a teacher or a teacher's assistant at a high school. If she's an assisstant maybe she's working her way to one day become an actual teacher, or this is just a job that she has to do before she can move onto what she really wants to do. One day she finds that she is falling for one of her male students. She stops herself from pursuing a relationship with him 1 because he's 17 and 2 because student teacher relationships are frowned upon. So she finds herself a boyfriend. It's nothing serious but for a while it keeps her distracted from the male student. Then soon after he turns 18 her feelings for her student get stronger. The one day she is unable to fight the feelings they both have for one another. They have sex. And they even do it at school. But the principal catches them. He tries to blackmail her into having sexwith him. He thrates to tell her boyfriend. But she is saved by her younger sister. Her younger sister is 18 and reveals she has always had a crush on the principal and she offers her body to the principal to save her sister. It works. The principal had liked the younger sister for a long time but couldn't find the oportunity to do anything with her. Once the female teacher becomes pregnant from her student she feels it's time to break up with her boyfriend. That or he breaks up with her because he can't have kids or they never had sex. Shortly after graduation she marries her male student.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Unless she's a child prodigy that started college at 14, she might need to be a little older.

 

[SuperWill19]

Unless she's a child prodigy that started college at 14, she might need to be a little older.

It doesn't matter. She could be. Or somebody could have used some kind of technology to make her super smart. She could be a cyborg, the machine parts could be 20 and the human parts could be older. Or she could be the reincarnation of someone really smart and passed college at an early age. There are so many ways she could be a high school teacher at 20.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Why make up a blatantly implausible scenario to justify her young age? Having her be a former child prodigy would be the easiest and most plausible solution to her young age.

Sure you can come up with some wild reason why a 20-year-old would be teaching a class, but that would probably just push away a lot of readers that would assume that it was written by a horny teen that was failing their Creative Writing class.

For example, you suggested that maybe there was a technology that made her super smart. As a reader, I'd be thinking:

"What's the point of teachers in this world with that kind of tech? All of her students would probably get this tech as well in this future world you created...there would be no need for schools or hot 20-year-old teachers for that matter."

 

[SuperWill19]

Why make up a blatantly implausible scenario just for her age. Having her be a former child prodigy would be the easiest and most plausible solution to her young age.

Sure you can come up with some wild reason why a 20-year-old would be teaching a class, but that would probably just push away a lot of readers that would assume that it was written by a horny teen that was failing their English class.

Sure it could go the easy way. But some people like to use their imaginations.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Sure it could go the easy way. But some people like to use their imaginations.

I'm not saying not to set it in a future science fiction setting. But great fiction writers create a sort of rule book for their world so it doesn't collapse for the reader. If you came up with a plausible reason why this hot 20-year-old has these brain upgrades and no one else does, then awesome. But if you're going to create some imaginative reason why such a young woman is a teacher, then you have to sell it for the readers so they actually believe what your pushing.

I had posted this idea on an old thread:

Mariko Yamamoto is in the lecture hall at an Ivy league school and it's her birthday today. She just turned eighteen. She is not a student though...she's teaching the class. She was a child prodigy growing up. Graduated with a double major. Teaching and History...all at the young age of 17.

She loses her train of thought for a moment due to one of her students. Malcolm walks in late and squeezes into his seat. He is a mountain of a man. He's the star linebacker of the football team, 6'6" and close to 300 pounds of pure muscle. Mariko is reminded of her pixie-like five foot frame each time he towers above her and hands over his homework assignments.

She's ashamed that she can't stop thinking about him. Mariko's daydreams of Malcolm are vivid and always of a sexual nature. The last one she had involved him staying after class. He walks up to her, his massive hands grab her waist with purpose. Malcolm hoists up her dainty, 91 lb. body as if it was nothing. He delicately places her on the table in the empty lecture hall and proceeds to raise the hem of her sundress until he finds what he's looking for.

Mariko gasps as she finally experiences what a tongue feels like as it slowly glides up her perfect vertical slit. Her thighs tighten around his head when she feels how long Malcolm's tongue is.

She snaps out of it when she realizes that it's another daydream.

A week later Malcolm's coach comes in to talk to her. Mariko informs the coach that his star athlete is currently getting a D minus. The coach needs him to get a C or better or he has to bench him. The coach convinces her to tutor him.

They are alone in her office after class. It doesn't take her long to realize that he has problems retaining the facts to his long-term memory. She also realizes that he Malcolm is sneaking peeks at her pert bosom. Mariko decides that he needs a special reward as an incentive for studying goals.

 

[SuperWill19]

I'm not saying not to set it in a future science fiction setting. But great fiction writers create a sort of rule book for their world so it doesn't collapse for the reader. If you came up with a plausible reason why this hot 20-year-old has these brain upgrades and no one else does, then awesome. But if you're going to create some imaginative reason why such a young woman is a teacher, then you have to sell it for the readers so they actually believe what your pushing.

Maybe if the story went with the brain upgrades maybe she's in a school where the students have health issues or some other reason that prevents them from getting the upgrades. Or maybe the student she likes was a candidate for getting the upgrade but passed because it meant too much time away from his favorite teacher or his family couldn't afford the procedure. Maybe lots of people have the upgrades. Or maybe she was just in some freak accident that made her smart and the scientists are teying to replicate it. Who knows.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Maybe if the story went with the brain upgrades maybe she's in a school where the students have health issues or some other reason that prevents them from getting the upgrades. Or maybe the student she likes was a candidate for getting the upgrade but passed because it meant too much time away from his favorite teacher or his family couldn't afford the procedure. Maybe lots of people have the upgrades. Or maybe she was just in some freak accident that made her smart and the scientists are teying to replicate it. Who knows.

Typically, when someone has a freak accident head injury that gives a person some new kind of savant-like ability, usually it's focused in a very specific area. I remember reading a couple of news stories:

A guy that got hit in the head with a softball during a game with friends. He had a minor concussion. Later on, he realized that he could now tell you the specific day that a date fell on.

Another guy gets a head injury and afterwards he is compelled to paint. He never had any artistic skills prior to the accident and after...he painted constantly, like he had no choice.

If you're going with the head injury/super-smart direction, maybe instead of a teacher, she is patient that's attracted to the doctors & scientists that are studying the weird phenomenon of her accident and new gifts. Maybe besides the super smarts, she becomes hyper-sexualized as well.

 

[SuperWill19]

Typically, when someone has a freak accident head injury that gives a person some new kind of savant-like ability, usually it's focused in a very specific area. I remember reading a couple of stories:

A guy that got hit in the head with a softball during a game with friends. He had a minor concussion. Later on, he realized that he could now tell you the specific day that a date fell on.

Another guy gets a head injury and afterwards he is compelled to paint. He never had any artistic skills prior to the accident and after...he painted constantly, like he had no choice.

If you're going with the head injury/super-smart direction, maybe instead of a teacher, she is patient that's attracted to the doctors & scientists that are studying the weird phenomenon of her accident and new gifts. Maybe besides the super smarts, she becomes hyper-sexualized as well.

Kind of reminds me of the TV series John Doe. A guy wakes up one day with no memory but if anyone asked him any question he could answer anything, he knew pretty much anything. For example how many dimples in a galfball, or how to play a piano, etc etc etc.

 

[Hypoxia]

A super-smart ex-child-prodigy 20-year-old would probably be doing something other than beginning her career teaching in public high school -- like running a tech startup. Sure, the author could dictate that "she always wanted to be a teacher." Right. So she turns down those juicy private offers because... her family is rich enough to subsidize her low-paying career? She's idiotically idealistic? She just loves high school so much? (Hey, she graduated when she was 15.)

There is no story need for a high school teacher to be 20. No, 24 would be much more realistic and she'd likely be much more womanly -- but she could still be physically and emotionally immature, and vulnerable to studly or quirky seniors. The rest of the OP scenario could play out but forget about her being 20.

 

[SuperWill19]

A super-smart ex-child-prodigy 20-year-old would probably be doing something other than beginning her career teaching in public high school -- like running a tech startup. Sure, the author could dictate that "she always wanted to be a teacher." Right. So she turns down those juicy private offers because... her family is rich enough to subsidize her low-paying career? She's idiotically idealistic? She just loves high school so much? (Hey, she graduated when she was 15.)

There is no story need for a high school teacher to be 20. No, 24 would be much more realistic and she'd likely be much more womanly -- but she could still be physically and emotionally immature, and vulnerable to studly or quirky seniors. The rest of the OP scenario could play out but forget about her being 20.

Try not to think too much into it. The point is to make it fun. Your trying to set it too much in our real world. People have set new world records before. Heck there was even a TV series on Disney I believe where a teenager of 15 or something like that was a High School science teacher. And that wasn't very realistic. My point is anything g can be done in a story. As long as it's fun for the author and the readers.

 

[tnhardon]

I think that the age thing is a very minor stumbling block. Most people graduate college at 21 or 22, so you could say that she skipped a grade or finished college early thanks to taking college classes in high school. Or better yet, just make her a 22 year old first year teacher and then there aren't any issues with the age.

This type of stuff actually happens in real life. I have heard of a number of teachers who have gotten in trouble or nearly caught doing stuff like this. I may eventually try to write a story like this someday, just have too many active projects right now.

 

[Strangebuddy]

Make her a sub that just ended up with a longterm gig. Most districts just want a degree or even just a number of credits to let people be subs.

 

[SuperWill19]

A super-smart ex-child-prodigy 20-year-old would probably be doing something other than beginning her career teaching in public high school -- like running a tech startup. Sure, the author could dictate that "she always wanted to be a teacher." Right. So she turns down those juicy private offers because... her family is rich enough to subsidize her low-paying career? She's idiotically idealistic? She just loves high school so much? (Hey, she graduated when she was 15.)

There is no story need for a high school teacher to be 20. No, 24 would be much more realistic and she'd likely be much more womanly -- but she could still be physically and emotionally immature, and vulnerable to studly or quirky seniors. The rest of the OP scenario could play out but forget about her being 20.

One idea is that she could have wanted to do something else with her life but for some reason she's forced to become a teacher for a period of time, maybe a semester, or a year, maybe even two, before she can go to those "juicy private jobs" as you put it. Maybe it's done because it was in her Grandparent's will or her parents made her become a teacher.

 

[Hypoxia]

It's philosophical for me. I was raised / trained (re: serious writing) to value parsimony. I like Occam's Razor: Increase not thy entities without (damned good) reason.

Here, the very young age is an improbability. All LIT stories are filled with improbabilities, but the fewer, the cleaner, unless over-the-top is a goal. I see no compelling reason why she should be 20 and not 24. Maybe I've missed it. Does a precocious 20-YO make a strikingly different character than an immature 24-YO?

Well, yes, but... If I see an improbable 20-year teacher in a story, then I'll expect more improbabilities. Maybe bigger improbabilities, like foot-long cocks and basketball boobs. Likely heading towards a farce.

I'm not saying not to write a 20-YO teacher story. But a greater suspension of disbelief is needed. It's all a matter of balance.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I concur with self friend Hypoxia here. A tiny change in age unwinds a lot of highly improbable things. Sure she could be one of those 14 year old MIT graduates you hear about or sci-fi upgrades.

 

[MatthewVett]

It doesn't matter. She could be. Or somebody could have used some kind of technology to make her super smart. She could be a cyborg, the machine parts could be 20 and the human parts could be older. Or she could be the reincarnation of someone really smart and passed college at an early age. There are so many ways she could be a high school teacher at 20.

Yes, but all of those reasons distract from the story so much more than "She was 23 and looked 20" would.

 

[Hypoxia]

OTOH... her need to teach could make a compelling story.

She was brilliant since infancy. She learned to read at her grandmother's knee, granny reading books aloud and her little fingers tracing the words. Throughout primary and quickly-passed secondary school, teachers were her inspiration, her lodestones. She vowed to granny that she, too would teach, would inspire young minds as hers had been.

She finished high school at 15 (few social giltches), had her BS at 19 and a teacher's cert at 20. She'd hoped for a plum assignment -- and was routed to a nasty inner-city high school. Her students were mostly immigrants: Black Caribbean, Latino, SE Asian, Arab. There was one Haitian (or Yemeni) guy who seemed beyond the rest...

Thus we have a nice multiracial Erotic Couplings setup.

 

[SuperWill19]

OTOH... her need to teach could make a compelling story.

She was brilliant since infancy. She learned to read at her grandmother's knee, granny reading books aloud and her little fingers tracing the words. Throughout primary and quickly-passed secondary school, teachers were her inspiration, her lodestones. She vowed to granny that she, too would teach, would inspire young minds as hers had been.

She finished high school at 15 (few social giltches), had her BS at 19 and a teacher's cert at 20. She'd hoped for a plum assignment -- and was routed to a nasty inner-city high school. Her students were mostly immigrants: Black Caribbean, Latino, SE Asian, Arab. There was one Haitian (or Yemeni) guy who seemed beyond the rest...

Thus we have a nice multiracial Erotic Couplings setup.

Interesting.

 

[Hypoxia]

Interesting.

So, do something with it.

A related idea: being a school filled with immigrants, some could be older than her. I graduated from an adult high school, now part of San Francisco City College. My classmates were worldwide and ranged into their 40s. So our young teacher deals with students aged from 16 to 36 in her ESL classes. Some are quite experienced and slick. How does she handle her attractions and seductors?

 

[SuperWill19]

So, do something with it.

A related idea: being a school filled with immigrants, some could be older than her. I graduated from an adult high school, now part of San Francisco City College. My classmates were worldwide and ranged into their 40s. So our young teacher deals with students aged from 16 to 36 in her ESL classes. Some are quite experienced and slick. How does she handle her attractions and seductors?

Could be interesting to do that. And maybe the main character can be more of a teacher's assistant than an actual teacher.