Being hot for teacher = better grades?

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Link - I never had a good looking teacher

He had wavy blond hair. Blue-green eyes. A dimpled smile. And a knack for pronouncing impressive words, like ?hypothesis.?

His name was Mr. Gemeinhart, and he was Lisa Daily?s fourth-grade teacher.

?We just thought he was the most handsome thing on two feet,? says Daily, who?s 39 and lives in Sarasota, Fla. Even 30 years later, she can?t talk about him without getting giddy. ?I?m sitting here talking and I?m giggling, I?m blushing and I?m not sure why. I?m a grown-up!?

No matter how far removed you are from your school days, those loopy feelings associated with a teacher crush can stick with you long into adulthood, psychologists say. That?s because the years between late elementary school and early high school ? when teacher crushes are most likely to happen ? are when kids are most impressionable.

?You can probably remember a breakup with a boyfriend from middle school,? says Vivian K. Friedman, a professor of child and adolescent psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ?Teacher crushes are often of the same intensity.?

Stories of inappropriate student-teacher relationships are attention grabbers, but most of the time, a teacher crush is innocent. A crush can even help the learning process because the student is likely hanging on the teacher?s every word. It can drive those students to work a little harder in class in an attempt to impress the teacher, says Thomas Cottle, a clinical psychologist and professor of education at Boston University.