Posted on 05/23/2002 10:59:34 AM PDT by Coleus
The Judge doubtless investigated the possibility of any complications, such as you suggest, and concluded that the punishment was adequate from what she learned in the investigation. The circumstances in which a teenaged boy has his first sexual encounter are really not worth the time I have already spent trying to put a little perspective on this. My only purpose for even posting in this thread, which is not in my opinion a major news item, was to support the traditional view that separate standards do indeed pertain to male and female sexuality, and for very good reasons. Historically, very few ever suggested that male innocence was as important as female innocence; and very few ever tried to protect the former as avidly as the latter. We do not prepare our sons to be mothers.
I was not suggesting that school teachers should be having affairs with the students; only suggesting that this probable slut who wouldn't have even been hired in the days when the double standard was widely understood, is just a promiscuous woman in an loosely moralled age, and not public enemy number one.
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I must have missed that part of the article. It sounds like your morals aren't too different from hers.
The Heading doesn't really say too much. A tryst is really a slan word for people involved in a love affair, the word is used generally for consenting adults involved in an affair.It should have read,
Teacher Molests Child, NO JAIL TIME??
No?
I taught myself to arc weld at 8 and was building hot rods and at 12 I drove my first dragster at Santa Ana in 1949 and went 128.
Where was this teacher when I was 13!
Me too. I would also want to see both his hands above the bench during these proceedings.
I figured we were on the same side of this issue...NO SEX with Kids/Minors/Juveniles.
I guess what threw me off was your opening line...
"I disagree with you on this one".
AMEN! This type of "teaching" relationship must be stopped... a long prison sentance could have set an example to orher predators. There is no difference between males or females who prey on children for sexual gratification. Wonder if she will continue in her teaching employment?Bet she does.
So if a boy gets infected with an STD by an adult woman, it's less of a problem 'cause he's a boy? Or if a boy's head gets scrambled up by his raging hormones and the toying affections of an adult woman, it's no big deal? Then, if my son - made sexually active by an irresponsible female teacher - turned his sexual "experience" towards your daughter and got her pregnant - there's no reason to think that there are any serious consequences to boys becoming sexually active at a young age. After all, it's only a problem for girls, right?
Yeah, I see your logic.
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