Posted on 04/21/2005 9:32:49 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (CBS) It seems city classrooms aren't just for learning anymore. On several occasions over the past week, teachers have been charged with kissing, touching, even having sex with their students. Now some lawmakers are trying to come up with ways to prevent it.
It was the fifth such incident in a week. This time, it was a female math teacher charged with kissing a 15-year-old student at I.S. 55 in Brownsville. And on Thursday, the mayor said enough's enough.
“It is not acceptable behavior to have our teachers having personal, sexual relationships with the students that we entrust them with,” said Mayor Micheal Bloomberg.
The mayor wants to change union rules that make it difficult to fire teacher’s accused of inappropriate behavior. While the city can now remove them from the classroom, it can take years to get them off the payroll.
“At the moment, the city really has little recourse to terminate teachers who abuse their position,” said Bloomberg.
But it's not just difficult to fire teachers engaged in questionable behavior, it's difficult to prosecute them. Right now, there is nothing illegal about a teacher or administrator having a sexual relationship with a student who is 17 or older.
State Senator Carl Kruger introduced legislation back in January that would make all teacher-student sexual relationships a crime. He says now is the time to pass it.
“Once a teacher has been charged with or found guilty it becomes a much cleaner process of getting that individual taken out of the system,” says Kruger.
The teachers union says its long been open to changing the rules.
In a statement, Randi Weingarten says: "Any kind of sexual relationship between a teacher and student breaches a sacred trust and is not acceptable."
"I still want to know if college can be homeschooled."
Well ... I suppose of you had a Ph.D. in a dozen different fields, you earned each of them in a top 10 program, you were the best student in each of those programs and you've got active research projects in each of those fields, etc etc., you might be able to pull it off ...
But your kids might have a hard time getting graduate and professional schools to take their applications seriously if their only letter of recommendation comes from their mother.
And besides, when they turn 18, your kids might not even want you to go to all that trouble. They might be thinking "Thanks Mom, but I'm 18 now and I'm ready to face the terrible dangers of potentially having sex in College."
Just pray that recently published research is not true, and you haven't merely increased the likelihood of them having anal sex without improving the likelihood of them remaining virgins until married.
I was thinking about that little blond honey several weeks ago.
And I want to change the rules that make it difficult to fire "journalist's" who don't know how to use an apostrophe.
I understand. You put that well. And I'll try to do better.
Peace.
Thank you
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