Dear Pastor,

I am having a problem with my class teacher. She always picks on me at times because I am along with her 16-year-old daughter. I am 17 years old. At times her daughter, who is my girlfriend, comes by my house to do her assignments. Pastor, she is not pleased with her doing that and wants to take it out on me at school. I need your advice.

A.F., St Catherine, Jamaica

Dear A.F.,

How do you know for sure that this teacher is picking on you, because you are having a relationship with her daughter? What is the teacher doing? And why are you encouraging her daughter to come to your house? If this girl is coming to your house, she is surely not coming there to do assignments all the time. That is only an excuse. Does every assignment require her to come to your house? Do you have a computer at your house that a library doesn't have?

I would suggest that you try to respect your teacher and to encourage her daughter to be respectful and obedient to her.

Pastor