Originally posted by Surtur
Eww, the boy looks like a girl and the girl looks like a god damn dude in drag.If the teacher doesn't have an abortion she should be forced to give up her child for adoption. She doesn't not belong raising a child.
Likewise, any parents who are "excited" that their 13 yr. old son got a 24 yr. old pregnant..probably shouldn't be raising children either.
EDIT: I saw the teacher had an abortion, THANK GOD.
But why is she just on administrative leave? Why wasn't she immediately fired?
I know you asked this a while back, but I'm assuming that because of their union it's a required part of the process. It says there's a pending administrative hearing where it seems she will be officially terminated.
TX seems to be much stricter about this sort of thing. There was a story about two years ago where a teacher was having sex with her 18 year old students, but because Texas has laws about authority figures pertaining to those sorts of situations, since they were still high school students she received 5 years. I think that might have been a bit much, but I have no doubt that it's any less than people would have been screaming for had it been a male teacher.
AFAIK nothing ever happened with the video of that young boy assaulted on the subway by that 30 or 40-something woman while her friends stood looking on. Had it been a teenage girls being done that way by a bunch of frat guys or some office clowns on a night out after drinking Nancy Grace would have been front and center calling for their heads, and so on.
The double standard is real, but in a few places the penalties are harsh regardless of gender. Clearly treatment is needed, because someone who does this isn't in his or her right mind. The severity of the punishment should vary by the crime and the circumstances, not by the gender of the offender and their partner.
You can bet that if these cases were ever of a female teacher seducing or raping another female student under their care the response would likely be quite different.