How can I appropriately approach my former placement teacher romantically?

[Anonymous]

There's this man that I like. He's a teacher on my work placements; we got to know each other fairly well when I was a student on work placement at his school. He was flirting with me a lot at school and showing emotional support at moments when I was sad. He's also swiped yes on me twice on a dating app that most people these days use, to express interest, but he hasn't messaged me.

It'll be a while before I graduate (probably later this year, as I have two more work placements to do there). What is the most appropriate thing to do when I have graduated? Go back and give him my number in person, give it to him on my last day of my last work placement, or find him on Facebook or LinkedIn and give him my number then?

I have never found myself in this sort of situation and I have been so careful that he's the only one who figured out that I'm interested and that was only after he was really obvious to everyone with his flirting. Half the school knew he liked me and were talking about it, but I didn't react and it died down.

[Anonymous]

How many times are you going to ask this same question?

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Did my former placement teacher intentionally match with me on a dating app?

[Asker]

It’s actually not the same question. Which you’d know if you read any of my posts.

[In_Trance]

You lied about your age

[Asker]

No I haven't. I'm not a high school student. I'm well into adulthood, studying an adult course.

[Asker]

I do look younger than my age, by about five or six years, but I never said I was younger. It's simply no one else's business what my age is.

[Asker]

if people choose not to believe I'm older when I am, that's not on me. That's on them; granted no one does believe I am the age I am.