What is up with all the teacher sex scandals lately?

[T_Bone]

Every time I turn on the news some teacher is being charged with having sex with their students. What's going on nowdays?

[PMC]

It's been happening for years, but I guess now more and more kids are able to report their teachers to the authorities?

There's been several cases over here of female teachers having inappropriate relationships with male students.  There's still an inequality in society re adult women committing "statutory rape", as the teacher is less likely to be judged harshly than if it were a male teacher.  Either way, it's an abuse of trust and should be dealt with accordingly.

[T_Bone]

It's even worse than the news led me to believe...

The Department of Education has just released figures that show that **7%** of **Grade School Students** have been the victim of sexual misconduct at the hands of school employees!

WTF is going on?

[PMC]

7%...  Oh jeez...  That's twenty one kids out of my entire last school year, and proportinally means that at least four would have been good friends...

What exactly is defined by "sexual misconduct"?

[edited by me for apalling maths]

[redrumloa]

I have actually TWO comments on this subject.

Here's my first thought:

PMC wrote:
There's been several cases over here of female teachers having inappropriate relationships with male students.  There's still an inequality in society re adult women committing "statutory rape", as the teacher is less likely to be judged harshly than if it were a male teacher.  Either way, it's an abuse of trust and should be dealt with accordingly.

Same here. It's a whole mindset that it seems all western cultures have. People think Well the boy must have enjoyed it. Well yeah, maybe a girl would have too. It really should be treated the same accross the board and it isn't. Whether they enjoyed it or not doesn't matter. Adults certainly should not be taking advantage of kids under any circumstances.

Here's my second thought on the subject:

Where the hell were these teachers when I was in school! :lol:

[bloodline]

PMC wrote:
7%...  Oh jeez...  That's fourteen kids out of 100, and what would be 35 kids out of my old school year...  Which would be a large proportion of my friends too.

What exactly is defined by "sexual misconduct"?

yeah, I know some of my friends had some... extra tuition...

[X-ray]

"...Where the hell were these teachers when I was in school!..."
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 :lol:

Without condoning any abuse of trust, I must add to Red's quip by saying that when I was 16 I had an English teacher who I can only describe as an absolutely flawless lady. She was not only physically awesome, but she had an aura about her that was attractive on a chemical or electrical level. Let me describe the feeling I got whenever I saw her: if you've ever stood on the balcony of a tall building and peered over the edge and suddenly got that little electric tingle down the base of your spine, because you suddenly realise how high up you are....that is how I felt when I saw her. I was almost physically ill, that is how 'bad' I had it.
I can only echo Red's sentiment that if this beautiful creature had decided to 'abuse' me I would not have complained....much.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Without wanting to condone these abuses, but I got the idea this kind of news selected for it's 'entertainment' value.

How much do you hear about kids being bullied to death or being beaten up at home? Wich is far far worse than abuse (apart from rape) I think.

[redrumloa]

X-ray wrote:
I can only echo Red's sentiment that if this beautiful creature had decided to 'abuse' me I would not have complained....much.

Absolutely. I, as an adult, definately do not condone female teachers abusing students. It wasn't all too long ago I was one of those pimple faced teens, I remember all too well the raging hormones. There's the biggest reason we need to address this issue the same regardless of the sex of the child. With boy's raging hormones, there is very little chance of them saying no.

I tell you what, I certainly echo X-Ray. Once I hit about ~12-13, the hormones were on and raging. I was a pretty homely looking kid, to whom girls had no interest in. I had no Hot For Teacher type teachers, and had Catholic teachings telling me masturbation was evil. It aint easy being a teen! :lol:

[bloodline]

redrumloa wrote:

 I had no Hot For Teacher type teachers, and had Catholic teachings telling me masturbation was evil. It aint easy being a teen! :lol:

I just wanked myself daft... just me... me and my sock :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

bloodline wrote:
just me... me and my sock :-)

You two are unseperatabely aren't you? (I mean, literally, physically)

[PMC]

redrumloa wrote:
I have actually TWO comments on this subject.

Here's my first thought:

Same here. It's a whole mindset that it seems all western cultures have. People think Well the boy must have enjoyed it. Well yeah, maybe a girl would have too. It really should be treated the same accross the board and it isn't. Whether they enjoyed it or not doesn't matter. Adults certainly should not be taking advantage of kids under any circumstances.

Yeah, adolescent males are much more aware of the physical act of love and adolescent girls tend to be more attuned to the emotional.  However, if someone's taken advantage of and damaged emotionally, the net result is still the same.  

Being completely honest, if one of my mates had been bedded by a female teacher at 14 he'd have received hero worship.  If it were a female who'd been seduced by a male teacher, they'd be instantly stigmatised themselves by their peer group.

Here's my second thought on the subject:

Where the hell were these teachers when I was in school! :lol:

Haha!  At fourteen my one greatest wish was to be seduced by a very attractive woman say ten years my senior...  But amongst the teaching staff  at my secondary school, candidates were lacking :-)

However, from my own perspective I was also highly sensitive to the emotional side of things too and being seduced and then discarded by a predatory female teacher would have done me untold emotional damage...

My own first love at the tender age of sixteen was traumatic enough, believe me.

[PMC]

bloodline wrote:

I just wanked myself daft... just me... me and my sock :-)

What a truly moving love story about an adolescent Matt's love affair with his laundry...  I can see it in a muscial now  (cue melody to "Me and My Girl")

"Me and my so-ock, we love each oth-errr..."

Speaking as a student teacher who teaches at a further education college, full of unbelievably beautiful young women, I can only say this:

I AM GLAD I TEACH I.T. TO SPOTTY HERBERTS!!

:-D

bloodline wrote:

redrumloa wrote:

 I had no Hot For Teacher type teachers, and had Catholic teachings telling me masturbation was evil. It aint easy being a teen! :lol:

I just wanked myself daft... just me... me and my sock :-)

The most certain thing in life is that Rosy Palm and her Five Sisters will NEVER cheat on you and break your heart! :-)