[Dilbert San Diego]

I want to be careful how I say this. I hope I express this properly.

I want to say that, we see these young teachers getting involved sexually with students.

We are now 40 or 50 years into the whole “sexual revolution”. These teachers are young. They were born and raised into a culture in which it is considered ok to have sex with any number of partners, any gender of partners.

They were not born and raised in a culture in which those of us older people were raised, in which it was considered wrong to have sex outside of marriage or before marriage.

So I sometimes wonder if that is part of all of this. These young girl teachers grew up in a society in which there is no overall morality anymore relating to who you have sex with. So I wonder if they really see nothing wrong with what they are doing.

Add in the fact that many of these teachers aren’t much older than their students. And if they are immature, they feel like their students are their peers, and that it’s not a student/teacher authority type of relationship.

And then add in the fact that they have been raised in a culture with no sexual boundaries anymore, and it’s a recipe for trouble.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Your points are all well-taken. From my own perspective, I would put a significant amount of money on the likelihood that she is the product of a horribly dysfunctional family, with at least one narcissistic parent, and was brought up without any recognition of her worth as a human being outside of what she ‘achieved’ and how she looks. Yes, she's a predator, and she's the kind of predator that is created by other predators of an equally dangerous - but different - type.

Before condemning my comments, please remember that the children she hurt by her actions are just like her, when she was a child. I'm a big believer in ‘pay it forward’, both in a positive and a negative context.

Victims frequently become victimizers. That doesn't excuse for a second their actions in victimizing others, but it's important to recognize - if you want to solve the problem.

[massgopguy]

Dilbert is spot on. When I started school. The little kids had the young teachers. As we got older. So did the teachers. Who took no shit from us. Now the HS students and teachers have the same music on their iPods.

[MarchonDC09122009]

“add in the fact that they have been raised in a culture with no sexual boundaries anymore, and it’s a recipe for trouble.”

Bingo!
These ever increasing occurences of adult-child sexual transgressions are a result of societal and cultural ills.
One of MTV and Van Halen’s most popular music videos was the 1980’s song: “Hot for teacher”.
Add to that the related older female - young male sex scenario terms “Cougar” and “MILF” that’s become popular modern slang likely has had an effect of popularizing the notion of this type of sexual encounter as a provocative naughty non-crime. (Until the law gets involved).
Pop culture may not be a primary cause for deviance, but it certainly can normalize and corrupt our sense of what’s acceptable.

[pfflier]

I encountered several teachers that engaged the profession not only because they wanted to teach but because they didn't want to leave the school environment.

It is a Peter Pan complex IMO. They cannot differentiate between then and now.