Mary Kay Letourneau has died

[lifesavacation]

I feel bad for her kids. I’m sure they’ve felt the shame of her crime throughout their lives.

 

[Owlpost23]

It’s insane isn’t it? This man had been doing this for a decade when I got there and continued to do it for ten more years. The school even says “Well, we heard rumors but we didn’t think there was anything to it.” They were told. Repeatedly!

As long as we’re slightly OT, this happens with as much frequency with same sex offenders as well. When I was in Jr. High (6th-9th) I stopped dressing out for PE in 8th grade and refused to all through high school. Everyone gave me crap about it. They thought I was just lazy. As an adult I became somewhat of a gym rat and they teased me about it “the kid who couldn’t pass PE now goes to the gym!” Finally somewhere in my mid forties I finally said to my *dad, “Do you know WHY I quit dressing out? The (female) PE teacher would make us open our towels to prove we didn’t have clothes on underneath and then would watch us shower.” To say he was beyond appalled is an understatement. He kept saying, “Why didn’t you tell me?” Well, because I was 13 years old and no one ever explained that kind of thing was wrong. It never occurred to me to say how humiliating and uncomfortable it was even when I was constantly berated for it. They never thought to ask why I wasn’t dressing out. The lesson here is keep talking to your kids and make sure they know they can come to you. If something doesn’t feel right you need to find out why. I was a straight A student that was suddenly, inexplicably failing PE. My parents, bless them, weren’t paying enough attention.

*It was my mom/stepdad who did not listen about the coach. I feel confident my dad probably would have killed him even though the never laid a hand on me specifically.

We had a gym teacher like that.An older woman who would tell girls they had beautiful bodies.It was beyond creepy.

 

[kymom99]

It’s insane isn’t it? This man had been doing this for a decade when I got there and continued to do it for ten more years. The school even says “Well, we heard rumors but we didn’t think there was anything to it.” They were told. Repeatedly!

As long as we’re slightly OT, this happens with as much frequency with same sex offenders as well. When I was in Jr. High (6th-9th) I stopped dressing out for PE in 8th grade and refused to all through high school. Everyone gave me crap about it. They thought I was just lazy. As an adult I became somewhat of a gym rat and they teased me about it “the kid who couldn’t pass PE now goes to the gym!” Finally somewhere in my mid forties I finally said to my *dad, “Do you know WHY I quit dressing out? The (female) PE teacher would make us open our towels to prove we didn’t have clothes on underneath and then would watch us shower.” To say he was beyond appalled is an understatement. He kept saying, “Why didn’t you tell me?” Well, because I was 13 years old and no one ever explained that kind of thing was wrong. It never occurred to me to say how humiliating and uncomfortable it was even when I was constantly berated for it. They never thought to ask why I wasn’t dressing out. The lesson here is keep talking to your kids and make sure they know they can come to you. If something doesn’t feel right you need to find out why. I was a straight A student that was suddenly, inexplicably failing PE. My parents, bless them, weren’t paying enough attention.

*It was my mom/stepdad who did not listen about the coach. I feel confident my dad probably would have killed him even though the never laid a hand on me specifically.

There is so much victim shaming and fear. A girl I went to hs with told me once that the AD would come and get her out of her office practices class and have her help in his office. We were a catholic school so wore skirts at the time. He would have her stand on a chair to rearrange things on high shelves and look up her skirt. He never touched her as far as I know. She told another teacher who confronted him and he stopped asking her to help. Eventually I guess more people came forward because they moved him to an all boy school. He should have lost his job. He was gross.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I feel for her older children. To have to live through that whole ordeal and know what’s going on. Wasn’t her oldest the same age as the boy she abused ?

I believe her two younger girls were raised by his mother. I feel for them too.

She is a monster and I have no sympathy for her. And if it were my son I probably would’ve tried to kill her.

I read that he turned 15 after the second baby was born. Insane!

 

[brockash]

Sorry, I should have clarified. I meant her four children with her first husband.

But you would have sympathy for all of her children, no? A childs, a child...none of them had any choices; so I'd certainly hope all would have sympathy for all of her children.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

Good riddance. The world is now slightly better than it was with her in it.

 

[jerseygal]

She was a predator who preyed on a vulnerable student. She is supposed to protect her students from harm, not cause harm to an innocent child, yes, 12 is still a child. Sick, sick! Now she will meet her maker!

 

[Happyinwonerland]

Good riddance.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I don't rejoice in anyone's death. My thoughts and prayers are with those who loved her.

 

[fly girl]

I don't rejoice in anyone's death. My thoughts and prayers are with those who loved her.

I agree 99% of the time. There are a few deaths I have been happy about. (Mary Kay Letourneau is not one of them.) Osama Bin Laden, I was very happy to hear he was dead.

 

[low-key]

At first I thought she was just a total loon, she belonged in a mental institution, but they did stay together a long time, better the most normal people, now my only comment about the whole thing is

HMMM

 

[wenrob]

At first I thought she was just a total loon, she belonged in a mental institution, but they did stay together a long time, better the most normal people, now my only comment about the whole thing is

HMMM

I watched a couple of interviews with them. He ended up being extremely messed up. That wasn’t love. She was his abuser. He never knew anything else.

 

[low-key]

I watched a couple of interviews with them. He ended up being extremely messed up. That wasn’t love. She was his abuser. He never knew anything else.

hmmm