Student seating in grade seven was in alphabetical order, except the front row. Mr. Baylor,

[Floyd R. Turbo]

our home room teacher, assigned the desks immediately in front of his to a select few. Not the brightest, or those needing extra attention but a group of junior varsity cheerleaders; blue eyed blond Polly Jo, Shanna, Leslie, and Kathy.

The four would spend their time in that class with their legs clinched together and their skirts pulled down over their knees while trying to avoid Mr. Baylor’s gaze.

Baylor was a creep. Everyone knew it including the other teachers, but no one did anything about it.

Complaining for the girls wasn’t an option. It would only result in them being dismissed from the squad.

I don’t think Baylor ever did more than leer, I hope not!

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Seventh grade

JFC

Despite MAGAts insisting that society was so much better in the ‘good old days,’ there are ways of reporting perverts that just weren’t available then. I’d go so far as to say it was covered up by those in charge of most institutions of that time.

[Scrivener7]

3. This is true, but it's a horribly recent development.

And the backlash to that development is strong.

Still, you are absolutely right. There is more protection for girls and women against leches and molesters.

[Scrivener7]

2. In my youth, and apparently yours, it was just what happened. It was expected

by us girls and we just got around it or through it the best we could.

I hope he didn't do more than leer too.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. I, too can remember several times in Jr. high school

Seeing something like this. We girls just figured that was how males are, and you have to learn to deal with it. I had a 7th grade English teacher like the guy in the OP.

Another thing I remembered was during class change when the halls were crowded, boys would brush up against us on the pretense of “needing to get by in the crowd” and of course they always made sure they brushed up against our chests. Some of them would even turn around and leer.
All part of being a girl in the early ‘70s ….

[Scrivener7]

5. Yep.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Never knew a nerdy or regular Joe doing that. Usually a greaser, or an "In crowd" preppy or jock.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. No doubt a decent boy wouldn't do that.

My HS had over 2000 students so we had all kinds there and more than our share of jerks.

[wnylib]

7. 7th grade, junior high. Good students could be excused from

a non academic class in order to be a "monitor." Monitors were students who spent a class period in the principal's or counseler's office answering phones and taking messages when they were in meetings, or running errands for them with written messages to a classroom teacher. (No PA system in the school.) Or, monitors helped the librarian during a class period.

The librarian was a lecher and groper. Next to the monitor's desk was a large, open-top file on rollers that held cards for every book that was checked out by a student. They were cross referenced by date of checkout and the student's name. The monitors were girls. I don't remember any male monitors. The librarian frequently reached across the front of the girls to get a card from the file. His fingers always "accidentally" brushed across the monitor's chest.

We girls talked about it among ourselves, but never even thought about making a complaint. It was just the way things were. We shared advice about how to avoid his fingers, such as standing up and rolling the cart to him when he started to reach. Or backing up in our chair and asking if we could get a card for him. Or folding our arms over our chest when he started to reach.

We feared not being believed if we complained, or becoming the object of gossip in the school over it. None of us ever volunteered again after spending one school year dodging him.

[elias7]

8. I don't know when we'll learn

Adolescent and teenage boys don’t need much visual stimulation to start thinking about sex. Many of them don’t know how to control themselves. Some men never outgrow the impulse to “check someone out”. I don’t know where schools stand on leggings, but if girls knew what many many guys ere looking at or what they were thinking about, they would be appalled.

Does anyone think this is really going to change? Especially amongst the suppressed and regressive teachings the right espouses?

[AwakeAtLast]

10. Freshman English

Those of us with more prominent, ahem, *assets*, were seated in the first two rows.

1984, teacher was also the baseball coach.

It targeted us to the boys as "easy". What a way to ruin High School!

[panader0]

11. Well Floyd, I see you still remember all of their names.

[red dog 1]

12. Creepy