{"id":27323,"date":"2025-12-01T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27323"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:44:20","slug":"episode-1461-she-was-crying-i-was-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27323","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 1,461;   SHE WAS CRYING&#8230;I WAS SCARED ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">SHE WAS CRYING\u2026I WAS SCARED .<br \/>\nalan   skeoch december 1., 2025<br \/>\nTears were silently rolling down her face as she stood by my desk.  It was 3,30 and Parkdale Collegiate was nearly empty\u2026we were alone in my classroom\u2026 the young girl who was crying.  Terror situation for all male teachers. I dare not touch her.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong MORGAN?\u201d  She just stood there crying silently. Nice kid whose boyfriend I also knew.    He stood outside in the hall.  Protecting her it seemed.  Something was terribly wrong .  A silent cry for help.  A fear of going home.   More than fear. Terror.  Dangerous situation. Male teacher alone with female student.<br \/>\n Where to turn?<br \/>\nAhh!  The School nurse.  \u201cWait here Morgan, I will get help for you.\u201d And  then walked quickly \u2014 not running \u2014to the nurses tiny room.<br \/>\nI have a girl crying in my room, afraid to go home.  I think it is a case of sex abuse but I am not sure.   Can you help?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cStay here \u2014 say nothing \u2014 let me take over.\u201d I never saw her again until several years later when she and her husband visited Parkdale C.I. to shake my hand.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have an island booth in a plaza.\u201d They were a happy couple. I never asked about the crisis nor was I informed about the resolutilon.  All good.<br \/>\nalan skeoch december 1, 2025.<br \/>\np.s.  I wondered how Lynn or Mary or Leila handled such crises.  I was over my head. I do not think nurses are present in schools any more.  In retrospect Morgan should have been taken the principal I guess.  There must be many cases like MORGAN\u2019S. P.P.S.  Why did I fear touching?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHE WAS CRYING\u2026I WAS SCARED . alan skeoch december 1., 2025 Tears were silently rolling down her face as she stood by my desk. It was 3,30 and Parkdale Collegiate was nearly empty\u2026we were alone in my classroom\u2026 the young girl who was crying. Terror situation for all male teachers. I dare not touch her. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}