Could it be? Why yes, it can..... ANOTHER FEMALE teacher.... and MUCH WORSE...

[Papa Deuce]

If true, yet another female teacher had sex with four students, but wait, there's more! This one is also suspected of being involved in a murder plot!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060414/ap_on_re_us/teacher_student_sex

 

[olena]

It sounds like the Pamela Smart case from NH. Pamela's husband was murdered by a student she was sleepung with, along with some of his buddies. Pamela Smart conviction

 

[Marseeya]

No offense to the teachers on the Dis, but the profession does attract its fair share of crazies. I'm in school with some people who, I believe, are going to ruin lives once they've started their careers.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

marseeya, how's your son, or it should be how are you and your DH doing?

 

[disney junky]

No offense to the teachers on the Dis, but the profession does attract its fair share of crazies. I'm in school with some people who, I believe, are going to ruin lives once they've started their careers.

I would suggest that the publicity associated with a teacher involved in this type of activity creates a false impression that "the profession does attract its fair share of crazies." I guess that would be your technical term for teachers who engage in illicit or immoral behavior. I believe that there are well over 2.5 million teachers in the United States. Perhaps it is surprising that there aren't more incidents like the one mentioned in the OP. Perhaps we could say that Wal Mart attracts its fair share of crazies. But Wal Mart employees don't make head lines for this type of behavior.

I would be curious about your comment concerning classmates of yours who are going to "ruin lives once they've started their careers." Do they sit in class and discuss how they are going to act or react in classrooms? I have known many odd or strange teachers in my career. Many of them were quite effective. I just wonder how you can make such a nebulous statement without some specifics. Teachers take enough criticism without someone hoping to enter the profession piling on.

 

[chobie]

If the title of this thread was exactly the same except for the word "male" instead of female, we would be treated to a litany of "poor males -they are so bashed".

 

[disney junky]

If the title of this thread was exactly the same except for the word "male" instead of female, we would be treated to a litany of "poor males -they are so bashed".

 

[Papa Deuce]

If the title of this thread was exactly the same except for the word "male" instead of female, we would be treated to a litany of "poor males -they are so bashed".

I don't know.... years ago it was ALL MALES, now it seemes reversed. I don't remember any "poor male" comments then. Maybe there were, but I remember it MUCH differently.

 

[bicker]

Indeed... When a man did this there were calls for the legalization for involuntary castration. If anything, it is more acceptable for a woman to violate this taboo. The mob is just seeking jail time for this woman, and prohibitions on what jobs she can hold for the rest of her life, not physical mutilation.

 

[chobie]

I don't know.... years ago it was ALL MALES, now it seemes reversed. I don't remember any "poor male" comments then. Maybe there were, but I remember it MUCH differently.

Well, the headlines are more reversed since that nut job Mary Kaye Laterneu, but statistically speaking I don't think much as changed as men commit 89% of sexual assaults.

 

[chobie]

http://www.slate.com/id/2134158/

Here is an article about whether females get away with this crime or not. Whether its biased or not, everyone can judge that for themselves.