About the Book
The book The Forbidden Apple resulted from a simple article that Dr. Ross wrote in The Executive Educator publication entitled, "What You Can Do When Teachers Get Too Cozy with Their Students." The article caused quite a stir and elicited an unexpectedly large response. Readers wrote back with more than 90 per cent stating they were aware of teachers in their schools making sexual advances toward students and concurred with Ross' advice as to how administrators must deal with the problem. The eleven chapter titles tell it all: ... Don't Stand So Close to Me ... The Broken Taboo ... Teachers and Mature Students ... Homosexuality ... Love & Lust in the Faculty Lounge ... "She Wants Him So Badly" ... Teachers and Mature Students Revisited ... Rape Prevention ... Sexual Harassment ... Why Teachers Get Involved ... Being Prepared. This problem was never more timely. One respondent, an educator from Missouri wrote, "To deny this problem exists is no longer possible. It must be dealt with firmly and decisively."
About the Author
Victor J. Ross and John Marlowe are both seasoned school administrators with a good deal in common. Ross, associate superintendent for instruction with the Aurora, Colorado, Public Schools, was a high school principal for ten years. Marlow is a high school principal in California. Both men were selected by The Executive Educator magazine, a publication of the National School Boards Association, for recognition as two of the Top 100 Executive Educators in North America.
