Posted on 05/18/2018 6:45:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It seems like every week, there’s a new story of a female high school or even middle school teacher who has been arrested for engaging in relations with one of her students.
The women are often young, attractive, and often (seemingly) happily married. It has been happening so frequently that it appears to be a reasonably solid trend, and yet there’s little widespread call to end it.
Selwyn Duke of the New American, in his article, Female Teachers Having Affairs With Young Boys — Now a Weekly Occurrence, says that while there are many high-profile cases the media has covered recently, the details of who these women are is unimportant.
“Significant is that they’re part of a larger problem, one defined well by Hofstra University professor Charol Shakeshaft, he says, citing an article from Life Site News in 2011 which said:
“Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, [found that] ‘the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.’ According to the 2004 study ‘the most accurate data available at this time’ indicates that ‘nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.’”
“Note that this scandal has never been sufficiently addressed — and thus the abuse continues,” Duke says.
So, why is “Sodom in the schoolhouse,” as Duke puts it?
The reason is simple, and it’s one that we tackle here each and every day. Adults are no longer behaving like adults.
There is one glaring reason that many people don’t spend too much time outraged at the thought of an adult woman having sexual relations with a teenage boy–most people expect the teenage boy is more than thrilled to partake, calling into question whether or not it is abuse.
“Teen boys do have robust libidos (this is related to testosterone level, highest between the ages of 14 and 17), and their temptation is great. Yet a child may also eat sweets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if you let him. That’s why adults exist. It’s their role to establish boundaries,” Duke astutely points out.
“As for the men looking back and remembering how willing they’d have been, they should ponder Edna St. Vincent Millay’s line, ‘Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.’ However one feels emotionally, a mature intellect intervenes and understands that the ‘heart is deceitful above all things.'”
These women are adults, put in the charge of children in need of guidance and maturity–not child predators who satisfy entirely godless sexual desires with their immature students who hardly know better.
There is, of course, one final important point that needs to be made. Most–not all, but most–of these incidents are taking place in public schools. Public schools are already full of immoral sexual values being pushed on children at every term. Many public school teachers are already seeping the school experience so much in step, they’re one step short of teaching children how to have sex themselves…so is it any wonder that so many are crossing that final line?
You may be right.
Its just libido matching. A 15 year old male and a 25 year old female. Perfectly matched.
There are no men to have an affair with. They have all been sissized!
LOL
The difference today is that our mass media allow these incidents to instantly go viral. So it seems like they are more numerous.
And to be considered hot by a teenage boy ... which they probably weren't when they were in high school.
Alas, these women need to understand that teenage boys, due to their crazed hormonal level, will do just about anyone. In other words, it's not you.
...what you said...And the unconditional love the teacher is getting...
These women dont realize the extent of the hell they are making for themselves by crossing the line.
ALSO - its the cellphones anb the stupid texting and sending of photos: some dopey kid lets some other kid see his phone and VIOLA "there is Ms. Crabtree in her knickers!" If that other kid is a girl?? - they cannot stop themselves from talking about it and the wildfire is started. The story rages until a parent discovers it and then the cops get brought in.
Some teachers are motivated to teach because being in school was the best part of their lives. When they become teachers, they continue in school. Because of that, they have never learned to separate school from the real world. They live in a Peter Pan world.
U guys don’t get it. The young teachers are in to marathon sex. They could wait until the student is 18. That’s where it gets strange.
Free Republic long since has lost the sense of humor that used to be common. Anal-retentive moderators and uptight "church lady" posters have killed what was once a great place for conservatives to hang out. The squelching of PJ-Comix and John Semmens pings were the last straw.
I don’t think we’re getting more incidents. I think we’re getting more disclosures. Back in the day, students were more like adults in miniature - they understood the need for discretion. Today, students have been infantilized - they talk about *everything*, like babies who have recently learned how.
There’s another factor - it wasn’t such a big taboo in the past, so it was probably rarely chased down and prosecuted. The age of consent was once a way to ensure that kids acquired enough book knowledge to function well in the workplace. It is has now become a kind of religious taboo. Except no religion actually has such a taboo. The traditional age of consent (marriage) was puberty. In Judaism, for instance, the age of consent (marriage) pretty much begins with a bar/bat mitzvah, at the ages of 13 and 12 for boys and girls respectively.
Roy Moore dated teenagers when he was in his 30’s. It never came up in earlier political campaigns because it was never thought to be a big deal. There are lots of things that are radioactive today that were not thought remarkable decades ago.
Lust is insanity.
Heck, Simon and Garfunkel sang about lust involving an older female and younger male with great success 50 years ago and wow what a movie that song went with.
Those lyrics about being sent to the “funny farm” or “mental hospital” which we used to happen 50 years ago with thousands upon thousands deemed “insane”.
“We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files, we’d like to help you learn to help yourself, look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes stroll around the grounds, until you feel at home...”
That's funny right there.
It is because far too many men are beta males (at best) today.
Too many men their age are soft, emotional wastes.
Perfect and true.
They just like fringe benefits.
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