Clueless middle school teacher Debra Lafave at her arraignment on child rape and related charges apparently thinking: “I still don’t know what all the fuss is about. I was just teaching the boy a few things. Besides, it’s not like his grades suffered any; I gave him straight A’s.”
About a year ago, Middle School teacher Debra Lafave was arrested and charged with four felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition, each of which carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence, all for providing intimate after school lessons to one of her barely legal students. But it seems cooler heads have prevailed because just last week prosecutors in her case invited her attorneys in for plea negotiations that will likely result in nothing more than probation and counseling for Lafave.
After the notorious Mary Kay Letourneau case, America seemed overtaken by a trend female teachers preying on school boys. Political correctness demanded outright condemnation of these teacher babes; notwithstanding that each had the uncanny ability to make unruly boys stand at attention like no other teacher could.
Clueless physical education teacher Pamela Joan Turner after her arrest (R) probably exclaiming to one of her equally gullible girlfriends: “Of course I had physical contact with my students. I’m a Phys. Ed. teacher…duh!”
Somehow, neither criminalizing nor condoning their private tutorials with these lucky boys seems warranted under any of the alleged circumstances. But I urge you to read the facts before condemning me as chauvinistic (innocent) or wistful (guilty).
Legally speaking, these cases cry out for the exercise of creative judicial discretion: I recommend a good tongue lashing (a.k.a. public shaming) and a period of probation. The latter should include mandatory therapy sessions to teach these misguided teachers to appreciate the psychological, emotional, and even physical wonders of sex with age-appropriate men.
Click here for Debra Lafave and here for Pamela Joan Turner to read how these teachers provided extra teaching sessions for some of their students with special needs….
Note: If Holden Caulfield (“Catcher in the Rye”) had teachers like these at Pencey Prep (instead of that crotchety old Mr. Spencer), they undoubtedly would’ve done wonders for his attention deficit syndrome (ADS) and naturally stimulate his interest in education.
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Anonymous says
Where were teachers like this when I was in high school?/
Anonymous says
If she had been a guy, he would’ve been labeled a pervert/child molester/etc. People should watch their double standards.