We are now smack dab in the middle of an epidemic. Weekly, I read of teachers seducing students - under age teenage students! This is completely wrong and something must be done to stop it immediately.
I feel strongly that over time, in the past, some teachers have always preyed on their students. I understand that sexual urges happen, and sometimes come with bad consequences. If an adult engages in sexual conduct with an underage person, nothing good can happen.
In trolling through Internet news sites last night, I found no less than 30 different teacher/student incidences this year. Why the sudden rise in predatory behavior? Society deserves better from its educators. Amazingly, most of these stories involve an adult female teacher with a teenage male counterpart.
I have never favored single sex schools, but might be forced to rethink that position. In that environment a school district could control a great portion of this outlandish behavior. Teachers could be restricted to teaching the same sex at these schools. (I am only pointing this out, because I have not read of a same sex teacher student relationship -though I am sure they exist as well). I know that costs would be incurred.
Penalties for this behavior need to be stiffened and meted out quickly and judiciously. It is time to curtail this activity immediately. I suggest that the U.S. hire an executioner. This job would entail beheading any teacher convicted of this crime. While I know my response is gut level and does not marry into our judicial system, I feel much better about it. This way the sexual stalker is taken out of society once and for all. No need to tag them and no need for them to constantly alert authorities as to their dwellings. It will be permanent and final - in the grave!
Our society continues to digress in many different ways, this is only one facet of said community slide, but if decent Americans continue to stand around and watch from afar- it will only get worse. We are all sick about Natalee Holloway and that incident. We would love to see justice served there. Somewhere, in this country a teacher is seducing a student. That student can be ruined for ever. Therapy, drugs, booze who knows the results. Maybe that child becomes a predator too. All I know is that it is time to take a stand and stop the dung from flowing.
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Reid, surely you don't think that a 16 year old boy who is doing his hot 22 year old teacher is a victim of anything? Doing your hot teacher doesn't make you a victim, it makes you the luckiest dude in school. You, me, David, Ed, and every other hetero male in the world had a good looking teacher we fantasized about at 16, and getting the chance to act on it would not have been criminal in our minds. On the contrary, it would have made us the coolest guy in school and the coolest guy at every reunion thereafter.
Whether you, or the law, choose to acknowledge it or not, men and women are different. There is a difference between a male teacher seducing a female student and a female teacher seducing a male student. If the male student is 9, obviously that's wrong, but 16 is a legal threshhold in most states. At 16, you can drop out of school, get married, work full-time, drive, and get tattoos and peircings without parental consent.
While the male and female teachers may have the same motivations, the difference in victimhood lies with the motivations of the respective female and male students. The female student probably thinks the male teacher is in love with her because he told her that to get her into bed. The deceipt is the big crime there. The male student just want's to do the hot teacher. There is no deception going on.
I agree with everything you said Reid, if this qualification applies:
If the student is 15 or under, it should be prosecuted as child molestation regardless of gender specifics, but in the example above, which describes most of the recent offenses, a young female teacher with a 16 year old male student, that just doesn't amount to molestation to me. Inappropriate? Yes. Molestation? No. A firing offense? Definitely. A criminal act punishable by hard time? Doubtful.
billb: I completely disagree. When a child age 17 and under (still under parental control and support financially)is sexually targetd it is wrong not cool. Maybe I would have agreed with you when I was 16, but, for me I have aged past that infantile sexual period and can see this crime for what it is-sexual exploitation. Nothing more. Kids cannot handle the emotional issues associated with a crime of this type (lets forget pregnancy issues here).
Also, I re-checked my sources. 20 of the 22 cases are boys between 12 and 14. The balance are mixed between young girls and older boys. All still wrong. I hope you are not in the education business, and don't have children who get in a situation like this -for your sake.
Adults + teens + sex = Bad news, always.
We must be careful with legislation, though. Check out the sad case of Genarlow Wilson...
No ongoing, Adults + underage teens + sex = Bad news.
What if it is a 19 girl and a 17 year old guy?
I'm not advocating sex with minors, but not every case is criminal molestation.
Indeed you are correct. I suppose I was to liberal in the use of the term adults, as I meant to imply only much older people. Still, while a 40 year old can legally have sex with an 18 year old, it probably will not end well.
Nonetheless, I think we can agree that legislation must be made to protect young people from sexual predators, but be flexible enough to avoid giving teenagers harsh sentences for just fooling around (once again, see the case of Genarlow Wilson)
Agreed. If a motley collection of blog readers can reach a consensus about a sensitive issue like this, you would think the legislators and district attorneys could too.
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