The relationship between Prudie and her student was all wrong on so many levels. It is completely against the law the things they did while he was still a student. This movie is a complete insult to high school teachers!!!
shareIt was not, he admitted he was 18 and 18 is fair game.
shareWell he was 18, so technically it wasn't illegal for her to have sex with him, but she would have lost her job if the school board found out.
And of course it was inappropriate which is probably one of the reasons why she struggled so much about actually going through with it. And why her friend was against it too.
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This whole plot line was inappropriate. She was stunted emotionally and that was why she was attracted to a high school student for f's sale, and she a married woman in her late 20's/early 30's!! She was pathetic! With the mommy issues and "I don't know who my daddy is issues... I am a sophisticated French teacher married to a clueless idiot and attracted to a high school senior??? Gag me with a spoon!
shareBut isn't that the whole point of her story arc? That she eventually comes to realize that what she's doing IS completely inappropriate, and why she ends up doing the right thing and going back to her husband after all?
Although, as many, many people on this thread have so accurately pointed out, Trey was 18 at the time that he started to come on to her, so what they were doing was not "completely against the law." Inappropriate? Yes. Would she have lost her job over it? Absolutely. Would Dean have left her? Most likely. But none of those things make it illegal. Right and wrong are not the same as the law.
Agreed... it was disgusting.
shareIf they existed in a vacuum nothing would be morally wrong with it. I mean hes 18 if she quit she could bang him into next week and there would be no problem but that kid certainly wasn't worth committing a crime, adultery and losing her job. That kid would have dropped her like a hot potato once he scored and if he didn't she would have ended up losing interest and realizing there was nothing else there outside of lust. One night in the sack with a pretty boy wasn't worth risking everything and I think anyone can see that her marriage was worth trying to salvage. I know her husband wasn't perfect but he wasn't a bad person and he was likely always the way he is. She just needed to stop trying to make him into something he wasn't and learn to level with him and compromise.