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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First day on the job and you bang a student? :roll: [/quote]

Guess she offers extra credit?  :)

I can't open the articles, but there doesn't seem to be any suggestion of force on his part?  A 17-year old boy can be pretty strong.[/quote]

There does not seem to be a suggestion of force. Apparently she gave him oral behind the teachers desk in the classroom while he recorded it.

Was it legal to record it? That seems to be almost as troubling to me.[/quote]

NP - I gotta believe that you're joking about being almost as troubled by whether it was legal for the student to record it or not... you are joking, right?  A teacher (regardless of whether she's 5 years or 25 years older than the student) has the ridiculously awful and unethical judgement to engage in a sex act with a student... IN A CLASSROOM... and you're saying the question of whether the student was legal in taping it or not is a big question?  [/quote]

Another NP here -- I do think it makes some difference that she was a sub on her first day -- someone in that position doesn't carry the authority that a regular teacher/coach does. And she could, in fact, have been physically smaller than the student (I haven't watched anything, so I don't know one way or the other), which also shifts the balance of power between the two.

Not saying this lets her off the hook -- it's still terribly unprofessional and I would guess illegal -- but I don't think it's quite as egregious as if a respected teacher of longstanding pressures a student into sex (as at Horace Mann, for example).[/quote]

You're free to feel however you want about it, but your basis for not seeing it as a big deal is wrong wrong and wrong.  ANYONE who has gone through the approval process for entering a school building and delivering instruction, whether it is as a sub, new permanent teacher, whatever, has been through enough trianing and should have enough common sense to know this is not only illegal, but will get you fired in a hot second.  The teacher - student releationship is not some ambiguous thing that has grey areas on this.  It is equally egregious whether this is a brand new sub or a longstanding teacher.  A long standing teacher may understand the reality of the consequences better, but no way no how did this sub not learn during the course of being screened and trained that having sex with a student is a no-no.[/quote]

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