CBC Podcast Identifier
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78 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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She met the music teacher in grade 10. He started working at her school in January 1979, right after he left Anne-Marie's school.
Jeannie and Anne-Marie have both mentioned this already. Jackie remembers he got close to girls.
I've seen that photo and others of kids and the music teacher at tables covered in wine glasses and beer bottles, raising a toast to the camera, big smiles.
She says while he acted like a kid, he also let them know who was in charge.
Jackie Short's diaries are a window into what was happening and how she was feeling.
It's embarrassing for her now, but Jackie's words signal the conflict inside a maturing mind.
She has sent me pages and pages. And at first glance, it's cute.
What a guy! But Jackie decided not to go with him after all. We'll hear more about that in a bit. Instead, he took another girl, Rita. Jackie had noticed something was going on with her even before the trip.
Rita was a year older and a year ahead of Jeannie and Jackie at Markham District High School.
For decades after high school graduation, Rita had no contact with Jeannie or Jackie, and she moved far away from Markham. I live in British Columbia. Rita lives in B.C. with her husband. She works in the long-term care sector, and she still sees Jeannie from time to time. She's also in B.C. Rita is private, shy. Her old friends remember a smart, pretty girl, a bit of a wallflower.
She now wears a pageboy haircut and glasses. Rita's asked me to only use her first name. What happened between her and the music teacher is still painful. It took Rita several months to respond to my invitation to chat. More time passed before she decided to do an interview. I realize these are not easy decisions.
Rita first met the teacher in 1979, a year before that van trip to the UK where there were public displays of affection. It had all started when Rita was 16.
In our timeline, Rita comes after Anne-Marie and before Jeannie, at the same school as Jeannie. All three women lost their virginity to their teacher. The women now realize he was seeing both Rita and Jeannie at the same time.
Rita says he drove a wedge between her and Jeannie.
Anne-Marie Robinson recognizes the tactics all too well.
In the late 1970s and early 80s, the music teacher was having sexual encounters with teens, Anne-Marie, Rita, Jeannie, and others. But he was also living with a woman, an adult. And she was a teacher.
And then there was a wedding. Jeannie McKay was there.
at the music teacher's wedding. It was at his modest one-and-a-half-story home in Toronto. Jackie Short was there too.
I guess I'm just shocked at how brazen everything was and how... Anne-Marie has now heard all these stories a few times. She's come to know Jeannie, Jackie, and Rita, but every new detail makes her more sad, disgusted.
And Jackie Short wrote it all in her diaries. Jackie sees, maybe better than anyone, the insidious nature of what went on and how it's wrongly interpreted.
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