I am side eyeing so much in this post. Do you guys honestly think fields is stupid? Some of these responses indicate so. I highly doubt fields' plan was to march up to this girl and detail her assumptions and dictate how this girl should handle her life. I think her heart is in the right place and there is nothing wrong with creating a friendship, or offering one. Should they get closer, I would hope fields would operate as she would with any of her current friends: actively listening, being a shoulder, and not inserting herself too far into teacher's relationship.
I'm side eying a lot in this post too. But it's not from the responders.