I saw her exchanging arsenals of kisses on the cheeks. She was so happy, or maybe she pretended to be so. She was too proud of her "kissing" achievement. Whenever she came across girl-students, the teacher welcomed them with open arms; Sorry, I should have said, with open kisses, without even counting them.
It is really uncanny! Being so unprofessional with students would end up in some mal-interpreted behaviours, for students are not mature enough to fathom out such extrovert acts; i.e, kissing. It is not because the teacher does not know the perilous outcomes of such acts, but rather because she is not aware of them. Sometimes some teachers feel compelled to greet their students informally only because they live in the very same neighbourhood; and this is very true for popular neighbourhoods where the school is at its heart. A teacher is a teacher if and only if s/he professional, task-devoted, committed, and humanistic. Sad to say, some teachers tend to both misunderstand and misuse the cornerstones of the humanistic approach. They are unaware of the consequences of being so close to students that they dare exchange kisses on the cheek in public! I still remember well how we used to venerate a teacher, how we reacted when we happened to come across a teacher, and how sweaty we got when the teacher addressed us.
I am not against female teachers exchanging kisses on the cheeks with their girl-students, but I am for being professional in its every sense of the word.
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