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That's too bad. I have fond memories of my 5th grade math teacher taking me there many times for ice cream because she used that as a reward for whoever had the best grades that week, or something like that. Oh well.

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I imagine that sort of reward would not take place today.

In high school teachers would take me to their house on my lunch break to fix their home computer then buy me a steak and cheese on the way back to school. Definitely some red flags there.

When I was about 15 (this was in the 1980s) I had been hanging out at a local computer shop, trying to figure out what I might want to buy for my hard-earned paper route and lawn-mowing money. The shop owner, who I would guess was in his 30s, offered to drive me to the next larger city to look at some stuff that he could not get for some reason. On the way there (or maybe on the way back) he took me to White Castle for food. We didn't have a White Castle and he really liked their food.

I guess you might say there were red flags there, but he didn't do anything remotely weird, then or later. He was apparently just wanting to help out a kid who was interested in the same stuff he was. Nowadays I don't think anyone would dare.

Teacher will buy a NFT or Fortnite skin

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