I am growing very tired of this subject being in the headlines, know that I complain about it way too much. Perhaps it's angering me because I am a woman and it embarrasses me to be one with things such as this. Maybe it's time us women are scorned and get a dose of what men have been dealing with for too many years but really, I have to ask, when is it safe to say that an adult of the 'female' species has no place in a classroom in this day in age? I don't understand this new trend of teacher/child relationship?
I have a son and 3 daughters and each and every time I read these articles or merely see the headlines, I grow more and more wary of sending them off to school. I had my older daughter come home yesterday telling me that one of her teachers, single and 28 would like to have my husbands' blog address and see pics of him and I immediately grew angry and apprehensive. Of course it is a female asking for all of this and she is a republican but really, my first thought that came to mind was of all these stories of teachers. Call me insecure but all my life I have been leery of women and their ways. I know them all to well, I am one but choose not to act in such horrendous manners. Of course a man would say the same thing about another man who acts in such a manner I'm sure
I remember in 8th grade I had a male science teacher who was well known as a pervert and a couple of female lesbian gym teachers. I will first talk about the Science teacher. It was rumored that he graded based on chest size for the girls. Never paid any mind to the boys of course, graded them accordingly. Well, I received B's in his class while my best friend whom received A's (she was pretty well endowed I might add). He gawked a lot and made us girls feel very uncomfortable and even tried to recruit a few of us to babysit his children. He just had that look of a perverted man eyeing us up and down and speaking to our 'chests' whenever we would go to his desk to ask a question. **shiver** He was disgusting. But I never heard any rumors of him acting upon his crudeness. And to this day don't know if this was all just in my mind because of those rumors. I wasn't exactly great at science but his class was 'easy' for me to pass.
Now, the gym teachers. That is a whole other story. After gym every day us girls were REQUIRED to take showers or we were not allowed to leave the locker room. I remember them standing right near the showers watching all of us girls shower and again making us feel uncomfortable. And we were not allowed to shower in those ugly bathing suits after swimming, we had to remove them. They would pace back and forth between the lockers and stop and watch us dress. Scrambling to get dressed as fast as we could before they would reach our aisle was not always an easy thing and I remember many days that I would put on my clothes long before I used that little 'hand towel' to dry myself. I just did not like to be watched and felt very ashamed of myself.
There was a girl who refused to shower one day and these gym teachers alledgedly forced her to do such. They literally took her clothes off and washed her in the shower. Whether this is true or not, well, I lean towards the 'it happened' category simply because the parents went after the school and filed complaints. I don't know what ever happened with that whole thing but do know that this sort of behavior happened even back when I was a kid.
Maybe it's because people are speaking out more, the media is becoming more of a tool, or that it's just that more and more women are finding 'love' in young boys, I don't know. But do they never read the stories in the news? Do they never learn what is appropriate adult behavior when dealing with children? Yes, another female teacher and her student.
This article comes with a LONG list of female teachers who have violated their students, male or female.
When I read just a couple of weeks ago about a couple of students who were caught performing oral sex underneath a table in the classroom, I jokingly said to Pat, "they do what they learn...must be part of the new curriculum" while my stomach turned with my actually saying such a horrible thing. That's pretty horrible of me to think huh?
I know that there are more good teachers than bad but it is really hard to keep that belief first and foremost when my children attend school everyday and teachers are more friendly with them than academic. Something needs to be done about this new trend. I can't say that I know what can be done as I'm sure that background checks are mandatory and not all have even a scratch on their background. Human emotions are a powerful thing but I believe that people do not know how to control that, that they let it control them.
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