things that make me glad i don’t have any kids in school:
- a kid gets suspended for farting in class …
- a mother whose kids didn’t GO to class gets sent to jail (instead of therapy, which is clearly what she needs based on the details of this story) …
- a teacher gets arrested for jerking off in front of all his students …
- and the supreme court hears a case about the strip-searching of a 13-year-old girl – this one is especially disturbing because she was being searched for (hold on to your seats) “prescription-strength ibuprofen”. yes, the mental giants at her school thought it was worth stripping and humiliating this kid because another student accused her of hilding some extra-powerful Advil up her ass. my god, if this is the way that school operated, they should’ve handed out Motrin to every kid walking in their doors.
when i was in school, it was the kids who jerked off and the old-fart teachers who farted. and nobody seemed to get locked up over it. but the times, they have a-changed.
it made me very sad (but, sadly, not surprised) to learn that angela lindle, a former teacher arrested for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old student, just committed suicide. regular readers of this blog already know how i feel about these kinds of relations: most 15 year-old-boys wish they could be so lucky. rest in peace, angela. and good luck to the (nameless, because juvenile) student, who now will have to deal with feelings about whether he is or isn’t in some way responsible for her death. of course he isn’t — it’s the fucked-up legal system and this ironclad designation of the “age of consent” that are guilty here — but unless this kid is a monster, which i doubt because it’s unlikely that she would’ve slept with a monstrous student — this will sit somewhere in his conscience for the rest of his life. and that sucks. i wish all he had to remember was some cracking good sex. i wish angela lindle wasn’t dead for the crime of giving a horny kid exactly what he wanted.
speaking of sex, the crime-du-jour in new jersey right now is brazilian-style pussy waxing. that’s right, we need legislation around this, folks. i wonder if a woman can be arrested if she does a brazil-wax to her own self in her own East Brunswick bathroom? sounds like the jersey politicos have a bit too much time on their hands, don’t you think?
meanwhile, the ever-weeping morons downtown are looking for a bailout for the 9/11 site rebuild. we should give them more (taxpayer) dollars to build more office space even while the office space already built and available in this town goes begging. but, you know, people died over there, so this makes perfect sense.
just leave the hole. that’s a better memorial. more empty offices is nothing but a tribute to our own economic tunnel vision.
i can’t bear to write anything more about bailouts or bonuses right now. but i don’t have to, because the firedoglake crew has a brillliant overview on the current state of our wrecked affairs. and many thanks to wonkette for calling andrew cuomo what he is: a competent public official. that rare thing.
and did you know that citigroup has 427 OFFSHORE BANKING OPERATIONS in the cayman islands? the place where american corporations file papers in order to avoid paying american taxes. citi is big, so it has the most. but it seems like every major corporation has several of these bogus offices — salon just published an extensive list of the perpetrators.
will you be surprised to find that AIG is on that list? no, me neither.
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The kid was actually stinking up a school bus, but is suspension necessary? Farting is only funny until it turns wet and then it becomes humiliation. One day the kid will shit all over himself and end the comedy aspect.
So a 22 year old is tugging on his sausage in a classroom with the door closed. Bad location for a little morning relief, but is it me or is 22 a little young to teaching school?
Pussy waxing, advil in the ass… it’s more examples of Christian right wing loons trying to gain control of other peoples’ bodies.
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Would it be okay for a male teacher to fuck his 15-year-old female student? Of for a gay or lesbian teacher to have sex with a 15-year-old student? Or is there a double standard here?
If a teacher-student liaison comes to light, the school administration should handle it with privacy and try counseling before calling in the authorities, unless some law requires reporting such an affair.
Teaching can have an erotic element to it, but it’s up to the teacher to exercise control to prevent eros from corrupting the teacher-student relationship. Eros aside, the teacher needs to be in a position to evaluate a student’s work impartially.
well, i don’t equate “okay” with “non-criminal”. i don’t think it’s a great idea for teachers to sleep with their students, and if they break the rules and do it anyway, it seems reasonable that they lose their job. it does not seem reasonable to me for them to be thrown in jail for sex that the kid called consensual. when i was 15 (hell, when i was 13) i was up for balling a couple of my teachers, and found ways to let them know about. i never did get lucky on that one — but if i did, they sure wouldn’t have deserved to get locked up for it. to me the whole idea of “statutory rape” is imbalanced. that is the concept that it’s “impossible” for sex to be consensual until you have reached a certain predefined age. in other words, what would be categorized as a rape and punishable by prison time if it occurs one day before your birthday, would not be a criminal act if it occurs one day after your birthday. that is just bullshit, and the ages chosen are unreasonably high.
i don’t believe i’m holding a double standard — i think the stat rape laws suck equally for men and women, gay and straight. we need a little more common sense in this area. criminalizing a human action that those on both sides wanted and enjoyed simply does not make sense.
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I can’t comment tonight…I’m locked in my East Brunswick bathroom doing a Brazillian Wax. I figured I’d better get one in before they come looking for my wax and melting pot. I don’t want a waxing citation, I’d have to plead BALD. On the bright side, I promise not to do this in front of a classroom.
Cyndi’s comment made me laugh out loud.
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