Female Teacher's Arrest on Sex Charge Stirs Response

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some allege school administrators know about inappropriate relationships between teachers and student and don't do anything about it. Others blame the teenage victim, pointing out that someone had to drive that second car there. Some ask why are cops wasting their time shining lights in parked cars to begin with?

There is more than one person out there saying laws regulating sex between students and female teachers are too strict. Who wrote these laws, one wondered, the Taliban? One person commenting online, who sounds like a school girl, says she knows more than one friend who is having an affair with a male teacher.

Many writers laud the victim as the luckiest teenage boy on earth. At least the victim was a male, said another, implying, I assume, that an illegal heterosexual affair with a minor is at least better than a homosexual one.

A lot of posters offer thoughts of sympathy for the families of both the accused and the victim. There is one who tells about his or her own struggle to land a teaching job, and many who marvel about how Blumenshine could squander her education and her career on so foolish a caper.'