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While I can't comment for all homeschoolers, besides the excellent customized education our children get, we want to keep them innocent as long as possible. Some of the folks that now homeschool started too late and their kids are already jaded, but their parents are finally doing what they think is in the best interest of their kids.

And when we think our children are ready, we'll educate them about the more mature issues in life. And one thing they won't hear at our school is this: "how do you know you don't like homosexual sex if you've never tried it."

One of twenty five incidents since last summer.

Child abuse.

Tenn. Teacher Accused of Sleeping With 13-Year-Old Student

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — A Warren County elementary teacher has been charged with having a consensual sexual relationship with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy.

Pamela Rogers Turner (search), 27, was charged Monday with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape (search). All the charges involved the same boy.

Turner teaches physical education and coached girls basketball at Centertown Elementary, a Warren County school with grades kindergarten through eight in McMinnville.

District Attorney General Dale Potter said investigators believe some of the offenses happened at the school and some at the boy's home.

Turner lived at the boy's house "for a brief period of time when she was moving from residence to residence," Potter said Tuesday. The boy's parents knew she was living there but didn't know anything about a sexual relationship, Potter said.

Potter declined to comment on the nature of the relationship between Turner and her student, but he said investigators discovered multiple acts of sexual intercourse.

"It's attracting attention because it's a female teacher, and that's a little out of the ordinary," Potter said. "But for us, a sex abuse case is a sex abuse case."

Turner was recently divorced from Chris Turner, who is the head boys basketball coach at Warren County High School, according to the Southern Standard newspaper in McMinnville.

Turner was arrested Monday in Clarkrange, her hometown in Fentress County about 55 miles northeast of McMinnville, Potter said.

Conviction on all counts could be punished by up to 100 years in prison. But Potter said it was more likely that a conviction would mean a minimum of a year to several years in prison.

Arraignment was set for Feb. 23.

While I can't comment for all homeschoolers, besides the excellent customized education our children get, we want to keep them innocent as long as possible. Some of the folks that now homeschool started too late and their kids are already jaded, but their parents are finally doing what they think is in the best interest of their kids. And when we think our children are ready, we'll educate them about the more mature issues in life. And one thing they won't hear at our school is this: "how do you know you don't like homosexual sex if you've never tried it." I do applaud your efforts as homeschoolers and towards your children. You must be good parents. That being said, my parents did exactly the same things you described WHILE sending their children to those same public schools (inner-city at that)as did my granparents and aunts and uncles, cousins, second cousins, brothers and sisters, etc. They actually thought their sons and daughters could be good examples to others (as many Christian students are in my hometown). We learned about the more mature issues later when the time was right too (such as that s-- is a meant to be a beautiful expression of love between a man and wife only). how do you know you don't like homosexual sex if you've never tried it.Any teacher that would ever ask this would probably (or at least should be) fired. I don't know of any schools in the two states I know about that would ever say this. I know that I would never even think of saying it to my students (and no I'm not you know what--the very idea repulses me).

Yes I know. I forgot to put the paragraph tag.:)