Teachers to get no-touching lesson

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New-teacher orientation now will include warnings about inappropriate relationships with students ? a decision made after three reports of sex abuse surfaced this year in Howard?s public schools.

“It absolutely should be self-evident, but I think it?s worth reminding folks because these are new teachers,” said Pamela Blackwell, Howard County schools? director of student services. “I think there gets to be confusion, because teachers by nature are nurturing.”

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