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Old 01-15-2009, 05:02 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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SEATTLE — Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.

That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School's former choir teacher.

FOXNews.com - Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
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Old 01-15-2009, 05:06 AM
 
Location: An absurd world.
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Eh, teachers are just people. They're just held to a very high standard. Don't know why. With the sex lives kids have these days, teacher's personal lives are nothing in comparison.
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Old 01-15-2009, 05:49 AM
 
Location: Austintown, OH
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Good to know.

On a completely unrelated note, are there any teaching positions open in Seattle?
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Old 01-15-2009, 05:58 AM
 
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SEATTLE — Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.

That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School's former choir teacher.

FOXNews.com - Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
That's not exactly the ruling. It's only saying that this is not a sex crime that is prosecutable by law.

It doesn't mean that teachers can have sex with 18 year olds, and keep their jobs.
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Old 01-15-2009, 06:34 AM
 
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That's not exactly the ruling. It's only saying that this is not a sex crime that is prosecutable by law.

It doesn't mean that teachers can have sex with 18 year olds, and keep their jobs.

Good point!

And in my opinion, it should be a math equation:

teacher having sex with high school student = loss of job
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Old 01-15-2009, 07:55 AM
 
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Good point!

And in my opinion, it should be a math equation:

teacher having sex with high school student = loss of job
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Old 01-15-2009, 07:59 AM
 
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Heck a teacher having sex with a teacher or just hitting on a coworker, will result in a loss of job, not really a double standard to me.
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Old 01-10-2012, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Yucaipa, California
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Its really just a morals issue. Most of my teachers were a fright so i would have to be drunk as hell to sex any of my teachers. Teachers=students=sex=loss of job & possibly career. It does happen though even with minors.
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Old 01-10-2012, 04:35 PM
 
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As skeeved out as the thought of teachers and students tends to make me, I personally know a couple who have been happily married for almost 25 years now.

They met when the wife was a 17 yo student of the 23 yo teacher. She got pregnant, refused to tell anyone who the father was and got married when she was 18 and had already graduated. They have since had two more kids and are very happy. The husband just retired from teaching two years ago, and there was never another instance of him being inappropriate with a student.

Do I think he should have gone to jail for that situation? Probably not. I am not even sure if he should have lost his job.
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Old 01-10-2012, 05:19 PM
 
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Well, as much as this gives me the crawlies, they have a point.

Let's take this outside of school. What if the guy was the manager of a McDonalds and she was a cashier of legal age. Could this guy go to prison for that?

Now, mind you, as a father of a 17-year-old, I would want to find the guy and empty a revolver into his twitching body. Then I'd reload and do it again.
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