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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368755/I-m-getting-laid-teacher-Woman-arrested-having-affair-student-confesses-uncle.html

A female teacher at a Washington State school has been arrested and placed on leave after allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student.
Barbara Jeanne Anderson, 37, was booked into King County Jail last week suspected of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor and was released pending charges after a pupil's mother grew concerned about the maths teacher’s relationship with her son.
Court documents also revealed the student had told his uncle he was ‘getting laid by a teacher’.
The teacher has been placed on administrative leave and her case is being forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office to be reviewed for possible formal charges.
A police investigation began on March 8 when the pupil’s mother approached staff at Kentlake High School after she discovered an ‘inordinate number of text messages between her son and the teacher’, King County Sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart said.

This happened at my school, BTW.
And some people wonder why homeschooling exists.

I am frankly amazed the Daily Mail picked up on this story. It's not normally their cup of tea at all.






(sarcasm)

Considering the extremely low number of incidents like this the reasons for homeschooling rarely have much to do with it. It usually has to do with keeping children from learning science and alternate points of view.

Exactly.

17 year old boy has sex -- SCARRED FOR LIFE!!

i saw this article on Fark.com as well... i think the poster on fark had it best... that Uncle is a giant... well you get where i'm going with that... he's a nark, and should never be trusted with anything ever again. Come to think of it, he probably only ratted the kid out because that was the teacher he wanted to hook up with when HE was in school and that age.

Ahtman wrote:Considering the extremely low number of incidents like this the reasons for homeschooling rarely have much to do with it. It usually has to do with keeping children from learning science and alternate points of view.

Strange, I thought it was because homeschooling parents want their kids to be successful.

Although I suppose if you think only religious people homeschool their kids, and that religious people are inherently anti-science and pro-brainwashing their kids, this type of argument would be persuasive.

Kilkrazy wrote:Exactly.

17 year old boy has sex -- SCARRED FOR LIFE!!

Well, if she was ugly---he just might be

I'm not sure what this really has to do with "accountability" though. These kinds of cases are becoming more and more common.

Kanluwen wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Exactly.

17 year old boy has sex -- SCARRED FOR LIFE!!

Well, if she was ugly---he just might be

I'm not sure what this really has to do with "accountability" though. These kinds of cases are becoming more and more common.

She isn't such a bad looker.

Stupid kid ruining a good thing by running off to the boys to brag it up.

biccat wrote:

Ahtman wrote:Considering the extremely low number of incidents like this the reasons for homeschooling rarely have much to do with it. It usually has to do with keeping children from learning science and alternate points of view.

Strange, I thought it was because homeschooling parents want their kids to be successful.

No, it's so their kids won't be able to recognize sarcasm when they see it.

biccat wrote:Although I suppose if you think only religious people homeschool their kids, and that religious people are inherently anti-science and pro-brainwashing their kids, this type of argument would be persuasive.

It's like your my favorite broken record.

Ahtman wrote:

biccat wrote:

Ahtman wrote:Considering the extremely low number of incidents like this the reasons for homeschooling rarely have much to do with it. It usually has to do with keeping children from learning science and alternate points of view.

Strange, I thought it was because homeschooling parents want their kids to be successful.

No, it's so their kids won't be able to recognize sarcasm when they see it.

Bazinga!


Sorry, had to do it, as I read most of those statements as being sarcastic.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

biccat wrote:

Ahtman wrote:Considering the extremely low number of incidents like this the reasons for homeschooling rarely have much to do with it. It usually has to do with keeping children from learning science and alternate points of view.

Strange, I thought it was because homeschooling parents want their kids to be successful.

No, it's so their kids won't be able to recognize sarcasm when they see it.

Bazinga!


Sorry, had to do it, as I read most of those statements as being sarcastic.

Then your doing it right because im sure they were

Damn it why wasn't thier sexed up teachers when I was at school

He's 17, she's 27, both are capable of making their own decisions. Hell, where I live 17 is the adult age.

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:And some people wonder why homeschooling exists.

Homeschools, private schools & religious schools with uniforms are only for overprotective parents who want to scar their children for life, not let them develop proper social skills, indoctrinate them with their own personal beliefs (racism, religious fundamentalism, anti-science, etc.), and generally just want their children to be unsuccessful in life.

A female teacher at a Washington State school has been arrested and placed on leave after allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student.

The boy had transferred into Anderson’s math class in the second semester of his sophomore year and received after-school tutoring from the teacher.

Suave and smart.

37.
Age of consent in this state is 18 for teachers and the such, anyhoo.

Homeschools, private schools & religious schools with uniforms are only for overprotective parents who want to scar their children for life, not let them develop proper social skills, indoctrinate them with their own personal beliefs (racism, religious fundamentalism, anti-science, etc.), and generally just want their children to be unsuccessful in life.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat? My parents sent me to catholic school because the local public schools were a joke. When I got to college my profs would always ask if I went to private school, because I had manners and could read and write.

samusaran253 wrote:He's 17, she's 27, both are capable of making their own decisions. Hell, where I live 17 is the adult age.

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:And some people wonder why homeschooling exists.

Homeschools, private schools & religious schools with uniforms are only for overprotective parents who want to scar their children for life, not let them develop proper social skills, indoctrinate them with their own personal beliefs (racism, religious fundamentalism, anti-science, etc.), and generally just want their children to be unsuccessful in life.

Thats hardly true.

I have met people who did homeschooling and they were fine and polite.

They wern't fanactics or someone who were scared of people.

I did homeschooling when I was working on a aprenticship and it was fine.

Good for the kid. He lived out a fantasy all of us dream about.

All of us.

Male teacher has sex with 17 yo femal student and it would be sack the pedo and chop of his whattsitz.

Reverse the roles and it is lucky blighter etc etc.

Double standards at all?

I don't understand the "awesome job dude you scored!" mentality. School should be about academics and discipline, I don't expect sex to pop up unless it's biology or health. I guess I expect professionalism for lack of a better word.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Male teacher has sex with 17 yo femal student and it would be sack the pedo and chop of his whattsitz.

Reverse the roles and it is lucky blighter etc etc.

Double standards at all?

Oh, you must be new here. Welcome to Earth. We tend to treat women differently then men. It has been going on long enough that if you act shocked by it people will look at you like there is something wrong with you. We all know it isn't fair, but we also know not to pretend we just discovered an age old problem that we know is there.

Point is the teacher was given a position of trust in looking after kids. She broke that trust, and that's the case whether the boy could give consent or not. So the school should fire her.


But incidents like this are hardly common. They're not a reason to homeschool your kids. One of the problem with the media circuses that develop around incidents like this is that they give no context to the issue, and people are left with the impression that it's far more common than it really is.

sebster wrote:Point is the teacher was given a position of trust in looking after kids. She broke that trust, and that's the case whether the boy could give consent or not. So the school should fire her.

All kidding aside this is also why it wouldn't have mattered if he was 18. She would have been considered a person of authority and thus held to different standard then if it was just a random coupling of the same age. I don't recall off the top of my head the legal wording at the moment, though I'm sure someone will at some point.

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:37.
Age of consent in this state is 18 for teachers and the such, anyhoo.

Who cares about the age of consent? Sex with teenagers is the best, what they lack in experience, they make up for in passion.

samusaran253 wrote:

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:37.
Age of consent in this state is 18 for teachers and the such, anyhoo.

Who cares about the age of consent? Sex with teenagers is the best, what they lack in experience, they make up for in passion.

It's also so nice that thanks to the brevity of it as well you still the other 23 hours and 56 minutes left in the day to get things done.

Ahtman wrote:

samusaran253 wrote:

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:37.
Age of consent in this state is 18 for teachers and the such, anyhoo.

Who cares about the age of consent? Sex with teenagers is the best, what they lack in experience, they make up for in passion.

It's also so nice that thanks to the brevity of it as well you still the other 23 hours and 56 minutes left in the day to get things done.

Bazinga!

Wow second one of the thread

Ahtman wrote:It's also so nice that thanks to the brevity of it as well you still the other 23 hours and 56 minutes left in the day to get things done.

Ha!

Oh, you must be new here. Welcome to Earth. We tend to treat women differently then men. It has been going on long enough that if you act shocked by it people will look at you like there is something wrong with you. We all know it isn't fair, but we also know not to pretend we just discovered an age old problem that we know is there.

Not shocked
Not pretending that it was a recent epiphany revealed only unto me.

Nor does your pomposity invalidate my post.
Amongst all the back slapping well done buddy you screwed teach it was a reminder that the hypocrisy still stinks.
Pretending that the lad done good and turning a blind eye doesn't make millenia of discrimination against half the population any more ethical.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Not shocked

Well than don't act shocked.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Not pretending that it was a recent epiphany revealed only unto me.

I get the impression you didn't actually read what I wrote. I said most people already know this. That is the opposite of saying you have special knowledge. I said you were late to the game, not a snowflake of insight.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Nor does your pomposity invalidate my post.

Well, if anything I was being asinine, not pompous. And again I need to reitierate it seems you didn't actually read what I wrote. I didn't invalidate anything you said.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Amongst all the back slapping well done buddy you screwed teach it was a reminder that the hypocrisy still stinks.

It would be hypocrisy if people meant it. Sure, maybe a few do, but generally the jokes made are just that. If people felt that she/he hadn't done something wrong they would do more. Are the jokes inappropriate? Yes, but most jokes are. Many jokes popped up after the shuttle Challenger exploded but that doesn't mean people actually reveled in the deaths. Its how some people deal with the absurd.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Pretending that the lad done good and turning a blind eye doesn't make millenia of discrimination against half the population any more ethical.

And your internet white knighting isn't going to change the situation, especially since you don't seem to understand the complex sociological, psychological, and media forces that are at play. If you really consider her going to jail for what happened as discrimination, you have a pretty poor understanding of what discrimination is. If anything she will get off somewhat lighter than a male in the same situation. Especially if it were a male teacher and a male student. Now that is a media frenzy.

Yak9UT wrote:Damn it why wasn't thier sexed up teachers when I was at school

So students wouldn't get distracted and could focus on absorbing things like spelling and grammar.