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What smells about most sex offense cases is they wait years to make accusation and as soon as word gets out there's a sea of hands and a chorus of me too. Then there's hypnotic regression, that's when it really gets muddy.
Well, at least that last teacher feature looks doable.
Yeah, true as quoted from the above post...Quote:
Originally Posted by kb2vxa
Uh from 2008 to 2010 and only now does he come forward on this ??Quote:
Cortez was arrested after an 18-year-old youth went to the police station last week and reported that he had a sexual relationship with her from 2008 to 2010 while he was a student at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where Cortez taught Spanish, Lopez said.
But which? The me too chorus, the muddy bits, the doable or all of the above? Ah, make it nekkid mud wrestling and you've got it... giggity giggity giggity!
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Originally Posted by kb2vxa
Ah, Fembots, you just have to love them, often.
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On the other side of the coin was Data, fully functional with Tasha Yar. Picture him with 7 of 9, "Do you want to copulate?" (The look on Kim's face was priceless!)
Which is why it is extremely important for a teacher to act in a highly professional manner. A teacher should not do anything that can be construed as even casual friendship with a student, let alone anything beyond.Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
It doesn't matter. If a woman swears that you raped her, you WILL be arrested and possibly charged until it's proven otherwise. Same goes with a teacher, I would think, if accused by a student for inappropriate conduct, you will at a minimum be put on leave and more than likely charged until it's proven otherwise. And, if and when proven innocent, this can stay on a person's record forever. How do you think that looks on the teacher's record? I would think it would be a little tough to get another job, or even be trusted by most of the parents in the school in which you worked. Even when proven not guilty. It's kind of like the parent who is accused of beating a child. Whether or not it happened, initially the same action will be taken, and the parent will be assumed to be guilty, even if it never happened. But that is the justice system, and it usually errors on the side of caution.
Yeah, but at least if you retain a highly professional attitude and you avoid anything that can be remotely construed as friendly or personal relations with a student you stand a better chance of not being accused of such actions and, you stand a greater chance of being found not guilty if things end up going into court. Yes it may leave you scarred either way, it may even mean that you may end up leaving the teaching profession even though you did nothing wrong and were cleared. I guess those are the breaks.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
Still, if a teacher acts professionally and maintains proper professional distance between his/her students the odds of ending up in such a damaging situation go down. Once Mr or Miss Teacher starts getting too close, too friendly, or, even a little too intimate with a student all bets are off and the road to career ruination, as well as criminal penalties is wide open.
If a teacher values his/her career or likes his/her profession why create unneeded risks and raise the odds of future trouble ?
I agree with keeping it strictly professional, however, there is always that student that wants to get even for a bad grade, disciplinary action, or some other "I hate that teacher because _______, I'll fix them" attitude. I'm sure it rarely happens, but I'm sure it DOES happen. If anyone had tried that when I was in school, the teacher would have busted their chops; and if you told your parents about it, they would take turns using you as a piņata. There seems to be a major lack of respect for anybody by anybody these days.
Even in the workplace, one has to be careful. When I had some female engineers working for me, I always left the office door open when I had meetings with them. If the discussion required a closed door (i.e., a performance review), we would go to a meeting room with a glass window - blinds left open. While I highly doubt that any of these ladies would have fabricated a lie about my conduct, it was a simple preventative measure that served to protect the reputations of both the employer and employee.