Posted on 05/18/2018 6:45:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It seems like every week, there’s a new story of a female high school or even middle school teacher who has been arrested for engaging in relations with one of her students.
The women are often young, attractive, and often (seemingly) happily married. It has been happening so frequently that it appears to be a reasonably solid trend, and yet there’s little widespread call to end it.
Selwyn Duke of the New American, in his article, Female Teachers Having Affairs With Young Boys Now a Weekly Occurrence, says that while there are many high-profile cases the media has covered recently, the details of who these women are is unimportant.
“Significant is that theyre part of a larger problem, one defined well by Hofstra University professor Charol Shakeshaft, he says, citing an article from Life Site News in 2011 which said:
Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, [found that] the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests. According to the 2004 study the most accurate data available at this time indicates that nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.
“Note that this scandal has never been sufficiently addressed and thus the abuse continues,” Duke says.
So, why is “Sodom in the schoolhouse,” as Duke puts it?
The reason is simple, and it’s one that we tackle here each and every day. Adults are no longer behaving like adults.
There is one glaring reason that many people don’t spend too much time outraged at the thought of an adult woman having sexual relations with a teenage boy–most people expect the teenage boy is more than thrilled to partake, calling into question whether or not it is abuse.
“Teen boys do have robust libidos (this is related to testosterone level, highest between the ages of 14 and 17), and their temptation is great. Yet a child may also eat sweets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if you let him. Thats why adults exist. Its their role to establish boundaries,” Duke astutely points out.
“As for the men looking back and remembering how willing theyd have been, they should ponder Edna St. Vincent Millays line, ‘Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.’ However one feels emotionally, a mature intellect intervenes and understands that the ‘heart is deceitful above all things.'”
These women are adults, put in the charge of children in need of guidance and maturity–not child predators who satisfy entirely godless sexual desires with their immature students who hardly know better.
There is, of course, one final important point that needs to be made. Most–not all, but most–of these incidents are taking place in public schools. Public schools are already full of immoral sexual values being pushed on children at every term. Many public school teachers are already seeping the school experience so much in step, they’re one step short of teaching children how to have sex themselves…so is it any wonder that so many are crossing that final line?
I read Pookie's Toons (PJ-Comix) every day, accessing it from the main Forum, so I can't figure out what you mean by that, since I'm not on his ping list and have no basis of comparison. I also see Semmens' posts on the Forum page frequently. Explain?
Now that makes sense. Looking back I can see your point pretty clearly.
Also students know what’s going on between students and teachers. ....always!
Charol Shakeshaft
That’s funny right there.
Can you even imagine what this guy went through during the 20+ years he spent in schools as a student?
Most young female high school teachers get hit on by the boys in the school. The strong ones nip it in the bud. The weak ones encourage it. There are a lot more weak ones these days - no moral foundation.
I remember an English teacher in my school - just out of college, cute as a button. Probably half the guys in the school hit on her at one time or another. She was one of the strong ones IIRC but it took a while to sink in.
Was the list of Freepers who wanted to be pinged on stories like this of a list of such Female teachers? If it’s the second then count me in!
Same with Semmens, some uptight types decided he was not being clear about satire, like it was his fault they had no sense of humor.
But, you knew all this, you have been here through the purgings. If it was agreeable to you, your choice.
......”There are lots of things that are radioactive today that were not thought remarkable decades ago”.....
That’s a great point. There were always ‘bullies’ in school but the teachers didn’t think nothing about putting them up against the lockers to show them the fear of God and did just that. No parents came into school to whine about how they’re ‘baby’ was abused by a teacher. It was perfectly normal.
Same with teacher/student relationships. Teachers and students all knew who they were as well. Guys would boast about it (a guy thing)and most of the girls looked at the female teacher as rather slutty..if a guy teacher he was just a stud! and the female student slutty or looking for a sugar daddy.
Because they are perverts and losers ?
Maybe it’s immature, narcissistic females married to soy boys, and they gravitate to the higher T level when they get the least bit of attention or flattery.
Do none of you realize the power a woman feels over a guy, even a young guy, that she can make him want her? It’s an aphrodisiac, and a woman with no moral compass will get drunk on it as often as she can.
Young men are like puppies when they get excited.
...I was going to one-up that, but I’ll just leave it alone, and agree with you. ;-)
Oh understood!
I never really thought about it that way and it sounds just about right.
I met several people over the years that said they would love to go back and be in high school again. Not just to be young again but because high school was so great. I have no idea how anybody could have let their life go so much as to want to be back in high school.
The only good thing about high school for me was playing football and hockey, then hunting and fishing with my family on the weekends. I never had time to have to hang out with the kids from school. School itself was just a step toward what I wanted to do in life for a career. Even though I had some fun in college I mostly worked and went to classes. Since I graduated with two science degrees I spent most of my time either in class or doing homework, then working to make some cash so I could eat and pay my utility bills.
Not that long ago many men spent their early years making something of themselves before marriage. Back then a large family was the norm and trying to marry a 30 year old woman then having four to six children was not going to work as it was more dangerous for a 37 year old woman to be pregnant. That meant the 30 year old men had to look for a younger woman in her late teens and those women looked at older men as steady providers for their children.
Nowadays it has been drummed into everybody that more than two children is terrible and having a spouse that is near your own age the only decent thing to do.
When society tells women they “can have it all,” some are foolish enough to believe it.
That is why they call it jail bait - its tempting, and dangling right in front of them every day.
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