Online dating for teachers

Finding Your Perfect Match in the Teachers' Lounge: Navigating the World of Niche Dating Apps

Asking this on behalf of a friend, my friend is about to start his teacher training to become a secondary school teacher. He uses Grindr and is wondering whether it would best to delete it due to becoming a teacher as he doesn't know if there are polices that discourages use of using apps like Grindr in case of coming across underage kids which I'm sure there are on Grindr like any other dating app. Is my friend overthinking things or is he right in being concerned? I'm a teacher of secondary and used OLD sites but not Tinder etc, the paid ones. Kids do look up new and young teachers online and whilst he is of course entitled to a private life its probably a good idea to come off Grindr for a while - they could easily cause all sorts of issues for him.

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As a professional matchmaker, image consultant, dating coach, blogger, and podcaster, I can tell you that dating a teacher can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience. Here are some reasons why you might want to consider dating a teacher:. This can help the matchmaker find potential matches who are compatible with your personality and lifestyle.

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RISE Directorate. Each successive step involves fewer potential partners. Also, each step is more intensive, in terms of time, emotional energy, and the amount of information you have about the other person. Unlike online dating, teacher recruitment typically jumps straight from the initial screening and the testing in a semi-artificial environment to the permanent commitment. In short, in many education systems, committing to a long-term career as a teacher because you did well in pre-service teacher education is like deciding to marry someone because they sound like a great person based on the anecdotes that their cousin always talks about during lunch at your office cafeteria.

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Why Teacher Recruitment Should Be (A Little Bit) Like Online Dating

This blog post has been beautifully illustrated by Pop Sutthiya Lertyongphati. As teachers, we are mindful of the omnipresent and aspirational societal expectations that we are constantly subject to. Whilst these expectations vary slightly from country to country and territory to territory, we are generally expected to be better behaved, more mature and more conservative than those who work in the majority of other professions, fields, trades and industries. There are good reasons for this, of course.

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