[Amelia]

Maybe I am wrong, but I think if this 15 year old confided in this nurse that she had slept with a 23 year old, the nurse would be required to report that to the authorities, since it is statutory rape.

In the state where I live, (1) the counselor would've been required to report the statutory rape, (2) it is against policy for a school employee to transport a student in a personal vehicle without parental permission, and frowned upon in any case, (3) it is against board policy for a student to leave campus during the school day, with or without a school employee, without parental permission.

The public health nurse should also have reported the statutory rape, but there are a lot of things that shouldn't have happened, if the story did happen as the parents believe.

[exnavychick]

Yeesh. I didn't know that. When I got ill with the stomach flu in the 8th grade, I got sent home. Unfortunately, my parents couldn't be reached, so I was walking home. One of my teachers spotted me (I had left during the last period of the day) and offered to give me a ride home. I turned her down, because I didn't have much further to go (and I was afraid I'd puke in her car, lol). It's hard to imagine she would be violating school policy with that. I can understand why it's there (For cases like the one here) but I guess they get into the habit of overlooking it, when a teacher would usually be helping for benign reasons.

Besides, I'm sure there are some whacked out folks that think what the nurse did was benign anyway. Ugh.

[brooke_ra]

the problem here is also the fact that if the man in question is 23 it is not statutory rape rather child molestation. I know one should not take personal attacks on people but the counselor in question also told one of her students many years ago that she should have gotten an abortion rather than bring her child into the world.