News: Student/teacher relationships: learning curves

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  1. soccernutter

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    I was just thinking this.
     
  2. bigredfutbol

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    I think it's a double standard in society being reflected in which stories the media chooses to report.

    A 14 year-old boy "getting lucky" which his 25 year-old teacher will generate plenty of hits and the only blowback is a lot of smirking "I would have hit that too!" commentary.

    A 14 year old girl doesn't "get lucky" with a 25 year-old male teacher. That's not going to get the same sort of titillation, so therefore doesn't get reported.
     
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  3. Norsk Troll

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    I think the fact that female teachers outnumber male teachers 3-1 also factors in.
     
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  4. bigredfutbol

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    Possibly, but we've had a couple recent cases here in my county of male teachers being arrested/charged with molesting female students. Not surprisingly, the national media picked up neither story.
     
  5. Norsk Troll

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    I bet if they were permitted to identify the [female] victims with pictures they would have carried the stories.
     
  6. Dr. Wankler

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    That's one of those statements where "cynicism" and "truth" are neck and neck for much of the race, but then "truth" pulls away on the back stretch and comes out, rather handily, the winner.
     
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  7. luftmensch

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    Or at least now claims he didn't. Something about the story just sounds a little fishy to me.
     
  8. taosjohn

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    I was wondering if perhaps he is gay and was scared to tell her so-- and she turned into a horror show for him while under the illusion she was doing him a favor or something...
     
  9. luftmensch

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    Sounds like a plotline in an American Pie movie.
     
  10. Naughtius Maximus

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    As I said, there's something about the story that doesn't stand up...
     
  11. luftmensch

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    That's what she said.
     
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  12. Naughtius Maximus

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    Still... maybe it won't stand up in court.

    OK! I'll stop now :(
     
  13. dapip

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ah-principal-fired_n_5266542.html?cps=gravity

    Maybe her specialty was advanced sex ed...

     
  14. song219

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  15. Norsk Troll

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    Especially since this is what she looks like - surprised it even warranted an AP report.
    [​IMG]
     
  16. dapip

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    Well, you're correct. It was student's parent, cop, cook, teacher, librarian, etc and principal sex. But it seemed like the right thread for it.
     
  17. song219

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    The whole story could have made up the "plot" of one of Cinimax's x-rated-lite movies but it is hardly newsworthy.
     
  18. JBigjake

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  19. dapip

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  20. Belgian guy

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    What exactly was she grading him on?
     
  21. Norsk Troll

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    From the article:
    and now you are complaining after she gave more one on one?

    See, here in the big towns, we send them thinking they're getting more two on one. We even teach them foreign languages, so they can pronounce ménage à trois properly.
     
  22. luftmensch

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    Hey, my alma mater is getting in on the action! A part-time junior varsity softball coach at a high school in Temple City was arrested for allegedly having sex with one of the girls he coached

    I might have mentioned it in this thread before, but two incidents happened while I was at this high school 25ish years ago, one with a girl and male PE teacher (she was expelled, he was fired), one with a boy and female teacher (caught doing it in the classroom, no less). Neither made the news to my knowledge.
     
  23. soccernutter

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    You went to TCHS? Rio Hondo League unite! (Alum of SPHS)
     
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  24. luftmensch

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    Yep, class of '91.
     
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