I'm sure I can anticipate a lot of the responses that I'll get to this question, but I've wondered if other people have had this experience and how they have dealt with it in a way that they were comfortable with. I'm a relatively young teacher (only 26) and so, especially the community college level where I teach, I'm not much older (sometimes even younger) than most of my students. As a general rule, I take a very casual and friendly approach to teaching and my students (which gets me into some problems with trying to maintain authority, but I've as yet not have anything major problems in that regard). My problem is that now that the summer term is coming to an end, I suddenly have two students (so far) who are expressing an interest in maintaining a friendship with me after class ends (and in one case, perhaps more). How do I deal with this?
Thanks! Adair
