in their view, if acanfora was an effective and popular teacher he would constitute a "role model" for his students. the experts feared that a "relatively few" students who enter adolescence with "extreme emotional disturbances" might be so impressed with acanfora as a teacher that they would seek to emulate him in all respects, and thus decide to become homosexuals. the experts likened their view that acanfora be excluded from the classroom to an "inoculation program" even though only a "handful of individuals" might be affected, he should be excluded. they acknowledged that their concerns were wholly speculative, that there was no relevant data on the subject, and that there is no known instance of a homosexual teacher, simply because he was known to be a homosexual, having an adverse effect on even a single adolescent.