Teachers behaving Badly...

...If only teachers could be married. If only women could be teachers...

That Modesto teacher who shacked up with his student has been arrested for having sex with a different student a decade ago:

A Northern California teen who made national news when she and her high school teacher moved in together says she has broken off the relationship following allegations that he sexually abused another student.

Hooker, 41, was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually abusing a different student more than a decade ago.

After being booked on one count of oral copulation with a minor, he made a brief court appearance during which a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Powers and Hooker moved in together in February, with Powers dropping out of James Enochs High School in Modesto and Hooker quitting his teaching job there and leaving his wife and three children.

The two appeared on a number of national talk shows and in interviews, and maintained they didn't have a sexual relationship until she turned 18. But police are still investigating whether there was inappropriate contact before that.

During Saturday's interview with ABC, Powers said she had "lost everything for this guy."

"I lost my senior year. I gave up all my friends at high school because they didn't agree with me," she said.

Meanwhile, the teen's mother, Tammie Powers, said that after Hooker was arrested, she helped her daughter move out of the small apartment the two shared.

"She is safe, and I'm glad of that, and I'm elated that he's in custody," Tammie Powers told the newspaper.

Hooker was released from the Stanislaus County Jail after posting $50,000 bail, the newspaper reported.

The student sounds like she has a lot of regrets, which is understandable. There is an important year of her life which she wont' get back.

If someone digs, they will probably discover that Hooker was transferred because of some bad odor about him and a student that no one really wanted to look into.

Too bad for his wife and children who can't deserve this.

From the "Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry" File...

...even if you are a 41 year old teacher who left his wife and children to "schtoop" his 18 year High School student, who is a friend of his 17 year old daughter.

According to this article:

Hoooker resigned from his job at Enochs High School in Modesto, California and moved in with his girlfriend. The 41-year-old teacher also have a 17-year-old daughter who happens to be Jordan's friend.

Jordan met her teacher as a freshman, but both maintain nothing physical happened until she turned 18 this past September. Hooker claims he saw Powers as "just a student" and had no romantic feelings toward her at first, but when her most recent birthday came around, things changed.

Tammie Power, Jordan's mom was in shocked. She launched an official investigation to find out if Hooker's relationship with Jordan started before she turned 18. She also turned her own Facebook page into a "most wanted" profile for Hooker. She's plastered his photo all over her wall warning neighbors about the man she calls an "arrogant pig". She's also made her wallpaper a photo of a prison cell, sending a message to Hooker should he dare visit her site.

This is a picture of JAMES HOOKER from Enochs High School....a perverted man in his forties, who has taken advantage of a little girl. Now, James if you're reading this while you have my daughter----you better believe everyone will know you're a sick child molester....

Despite of this controversy Hooker is confident that his wife claims will turn up nothing. He even blames the "stigma of the teacher-student relationship" for the public backlash. But Hooker's former boss, Modesto City Schools Supt. Pam Able, doesn't agree.

This couple may not break any laws, according to Able, "considers student-teacher dating relationships to be not only unprofessional, but immoral." She also added in an email to the Modesto Bee, that Hooker's relationship has become a "source of great concern for staff, students and parents."

Jordan Powers has stopped taking classes at Enochs High, but is completing her senior year through independent study and plans to walk at her graduation in May.

Well, if they're following their hearts, then it's all good.

File in both the "truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be plausible" and the "slouching to Gomorrah" files.

Valley Teacher Leaves Family for Student

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - A California school teacher has quit his job and left his wife and kids to move into an apartment with an 18-year-old student less than half his age.

The Modesto Bee says the teen's mother has waged a Facebook campaign since her daughter moved out of the family's home last week and into a Modesto apartment with 41-year-old James Hooker.

Hooker quit his teaching job at Enochs High School last week and left his wife and children, one of them an Enochs student, to live with Enochs senior Jordan Powers.

Modesto police are investigating whether there was inappropriate contact before the girl turned 18 last fall.

Hooker acknowledges the couple hurt a lot of people, but says they decided to follow their hearts.

Ahhhhh....sweeeeeet.

Except for the part where Hooker abandoned his children and wife, and took up with an immature girl over whom he had been placed in a position of trust and power for the purpose of shaping her future for her own ends - and not for his pleasure.

That part is pretty awful and creepy.