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Female teacher's sex charge is unusual
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2006-10-23 18:45
Story here. Excerpt:
"Only 4 percent of educators who were investigated for sexual misconduct were females, the report said. But students surveyed said 43 percent of inappropriate behavior came from female teachers."
"Researchers and advocates believe that most child sex abuse cases go unreported, and boys are less likely than girls to report abuse."
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Unusual is how this case is being handled
This teacher is being treated so softly and gently givin what she is accused of doing compared to how a male in in the same situation would be treated.
I completely disagree with the recommended solution of teachers reporting suspicions based on gossip overheard from students. Yes, it may well be tru what the author is saying about students (in particualr male) disclosing information to their friends before they tell adults. However, if these friends then relay the information along the grape vine it is likely embellished and distorted by the time a teacher overhears it. This could lead to alot of false repoting and careers being ruined bases on fictions concocted out of a misunderstood truth.
The truth is, sex crimes will always be under reported crimes. There is absolutely nothing that will change that. The truth is ALL crimes are vastly under reported. Taking the stance of action based on rumours and inuendo is only going to make the problem worse.
This article also perpetuates the myth that 'boys want it, and girls don't' when the author talks about the movie 'Summer of 42 and cannot think of a comparable movie involving a young female which is utter nonesence. I guess this author has never seen the movie American Beauty or read the novel Lolita or the movies based on that novel in wich a teenage girl seduces an older man. Applying these idiotic stero types on cases like this doesn't help anything either. The truth is every single person reacts differently. Some young girls are the sexual agressors (without having previously been raped as the stero type for sexually agressive girls goes) and some boys are utterly terrified (without being the wimpy, dorky bookworm type as that sterotype goes). The point is, sex crimes are not clear cut black and white issues. The problems are comlpex and numerous and simply cannot be shoehorned to fit old social stereotypes in most cases.
That is why I am for not making any names public in sex cases until after the case has been to trial. Allow at least some fact finding body to test the case before splashing it all over the news because the current method of guilty until proven innocent in sex cases isn't really helping anyone