Denise-Marie Balona of the Orlando Sentinel has written a very informative special report titled, “Florida plagued by arrests, disciplinary actions for sex-crime teachers” which reports that at least 150 Florida teachers have been disciplined in the past three years after being accused of sexual misconduct with students.
Balona’s report confirms what many have suspected, that being that the number of disciplinary cases involving sexual misdeeds is rising in Florida and among female educators in particular.
This is a special report well “worth the read” and one I highly recommend.
You can read it by Clicking Here.
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I think all these offending teachers should all get a life. They should also not forget the 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not be stupid. None of these idiots should be phoning or texting the students, they shouldn’t have them over to their apartments or homes, and they should take positive steps not to be alone with any student.
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Peter Rabbit – thank you for making my point BRILLIANTLY. Using your own limited scope of experience as a basis to deduce your conclusion is textbook FAULTY LOGIC. You are simply generalizing from a woefully insufficient amount evidence and passing that off as fact. It is irresponsible for someone in your position to be so illogical.
You really don’t have a grasp on this concept? You’re really trying to tell us that you went to college and didn’t pick this up SOMEWHERE amongst the dozens of courses that stress the most basic rules of logic? Really?
Let me explain this to you like you were 5 years old. You do not have an intimate understanding of the motives held by both parties in each of these cases. (You do not know who went after who in every single case.) Therefore, you can not make a conclusion about what the majority of the motives were. The only thing you draw on is your own limited experience – this is not a foundation for ANYTHING other than your own limited experience.
I speak from personal experience when I was a student, observation of others when I was a student, observation of interactions between teachers and students as a teacher and being google eyed by several female students in the past. My experience and observations consist of male students pursuing female teachers.
Another brilliant argument by Peter Rabbit. Never ceases to amaze me.
You realize that you’re basically saying that the way to deal with these crimes is to simply make them legal, right? That isn’t solving anything, that is merely redefining it – the same issues persist. Understand that these laws were made for a reason – they are a reflection of moral and ethical sentiment and generally reflect a reasonable person’s position on these points.
Your ridiculous statement that it is “usually” the student that pursues the teacher is appalling and is tantamount to, “she was asking for it.” You have no empirical data from which to draw when making this statement.
In all of your alleged years of college, didn’t they ever teach you the logical fallacy in drawing definitive conclusions based on anecdotal evidence?
The prohibition on teacher-student relationships has several parallels throughout our society including in the military which has criminal prohibitions in the UCMJ against fraternization between higher/lower ranking *ADULTS* regardless of their age.
Similar prohibitions although administrative in nature exist throughout much of the corporate and business world, within government and public service sectors where those in positions are authority are prohibited from relationships with those they supervise.
Even in some instances in the corporate/business world these prohibitions exist against individuals of *equal* standing within the organization having relationships one with the other.
In regard to prosecuting those less than 18-year-olds as adults for alleged criminal offenses, that is a red-herring in the debate over prohibition of teacher-student sex although it is a good topic for a separate debate.
My personal view is that until a person has full “adult rights” of citizenship they should not be required to face the full “adult punishments” for their crimes, but that’s just my personal view.
If Florida would lower the consent age and eliminate the law about teacher-student relationships, there wouldn’t be a problem. I’m thinking 16 years old and older, maybe 15 but I’m not sure. If a 15, 16, and 17 year olds can be tried as an adults in court and if high school students can have relationships with a policemen, their employers, teachers from different schools, etc., why not their own teacher?
If this is too radical for you then punish the student along with the teacher. It takes two and usually it’s the student who is pursing the teacher. This way there are consequences for both, not a free pass for the students. A free pass enables them to do it again.