WTF of the Day

[aTotal360]

I get that you shouldn't have to train people not to do this...

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I....I don't believe that this could have actually been a thing.

 

[patdog]

If you get past the headline, most of the things in that bill probably do need to be covered. No idea why he thought it was necessary to include the first one.

The Educator-Student Interaction Training Act would require training on sexual or romantic contact, social media interactions, interactions outside the classroom and the use of corporal punishment and physical restraints in classrooms.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I....I don't believe that this could have actually been a thing.

Could be worse. -signed Confederate Heritage Month

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Which brings me to my next point. Don't smoke crack.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Teacher: was that wrong? Cause if anyone had told me that sort of thing was frowned upon, well.........

 

[WayboDawg]

Teacher: was that wrong? Cause if anyone had told me that sort of thing was frowned upon, well.........

 

[RocketDawg]

Yeah, that's unbelievable. But it seems to be more rampant nowadays, or maybe it was just covered up back in the "good ole days". Just in the last week, 3 teachers in the Huntsville Metro have been charged with having sex with students ... two in Athens and one in Decatur (she is 46, looks pretty good, but her two students were less than 19). The two in Athens were male coaches. Not sure if the victims were male or female.

They don't need training not to do it, but maybe they need to vet their applicants a bit closer and not hire those sorts in the first place.

 

[MaroonNation]

Inappropriate teacher/student relations have been happening forever. The reason it seems more evident now is that cell phones and social media make it much easier to slip up and get caught. It also doesn't help that most states have programs in place to pay for your education degree if the person is willing to work it back in less desirable school districts. It amazes me that some of these fruitcake a passed a pre employment screening. And also the law is more excited to prosecute it. The media can't wait to sensationalize it. Anytime you have authority figures placed in close proximity to curious teenagers inappropriate interactions are going to happen. Most boys would probably think it's a badge of honor and most girls would probably find it amusing to toy with a male teacher.

For every teacher that is busted there are 5 more teachers in that same district that are involved with a student and no one ever finds out.

But I agree with the lawmaker. A 1 hour inservice every year won't do jack **** to stop it. The outliers are the elementary school teachers and yes that is sick but hell at my kids school the middle school and high school teachers aren't that far removed from being high schoolers themselves. So do I find it deplorable when a high school teacher and a high school student are caught? Not really.

 

[Crazy Cotton]

Because it's based on a recent special law for teachers. Lots of Alabama teachers have sex with their high school students. I mean a lot of them - don't believe me? Google it, it will blow your mind. But, they weren't able to prosecute most of them, because the age of consent in AL is 16. So you had lots of 30-40 year old banging high school kids, and there wasn't anything the DA could do about it. Sure you could fire them, but that was the extent of the public's recourse for these pieces of sheet. So, recently AL passed a law that says you can't screw your student if their under 19. Welp, lots of teachers are still out there just a gettin it, and this law is to make sure they all understand that just cause she or he is sixteen doesn't give you a free pass, if you're that person's teacher, keep it in your pants, or his pants, as it were.

 

[patdog]

Pretty sure it was just covered up back in the day. You'd just not renew the teacher's contract when the school year ended in May. At least that's the way it happened back when I was in high school. I don't know that for a fact, but there were rumors.

 

[Bulldogg31]

+1

 

[johnson86-1]

If you get past the headline, most of the things in that bill probably do need to be covered. No idea why he thought it was necessary to include the first one.

Because you have 23 or 24 year old horn dogs that while they understand it's wrong and that its criminal, could still use some reminders of what state prison will be like if they go and are labeled as a sex offender. Plus, some of the things can be headed off at the pass by training young teachers to be vigilant about not being in a bad situation. Never let a student close a door with you in the room alone with him/her. Don't ever provide a cell phone number, don't interact off campus, etc. this will pretty much only help young teachers. The teachers in their 30's and 40's Havun relations with students aren't going to be helped. They've got much bigger problems.

 

[lowbird]

You really shouldn't have to train people to have common sense.
Sad times we live in

 

[studentdawg87]

A certain Meridian High athlete who enrolled early at a SEC school this semester was banging a young teacher. It was quietly "handled," and nothing came of it.

 

[dawgoneyall]

I get that you shouldn't have to train people not to do this...

Freeze said "sign me up for the course."