All the time in middle school and high school, I’ve heard, for example, “My girlfriend doesn’t like that I do X” or “My wife and I did X this weekend”, and since the teacher is a man, it’s seen as acceptable.
Would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause angry emails from parents, even if I’m not discussing forms of romantic attraction in schools? These kids are like 11-14 anyway, parents’ job to teach orientation (which I’ve heard argued) or not.
Also, we learn relationship descriptions in middle school Spanish if you choose to take it, which includes words like novio, novia, esposo, and esposa. (Shouldn’t matter, especially if the school I teach in is at a non-Conservative community)
If you are in a red state; absolutely not. Do not even chance it. Honestly, you should be trying to get out as soon as possible.
If you’re living somewhere liberal; ehhh. It depends. Current administration are shitbags, and all it takes is one of those lil fucks thinking it’d be funny to report their teacher to the feds. If your classes are such that you don’t think you’d have to worry about something like that, go for it. As someone who gets paid to talk to a lotta children, I don’t really tell them anything about me, but I’m not a teacher and being kind to kids isn’t in my job description.