RSSStudent Sex, Teachers, and Sex Ed
Gene Lalor | November 20, 2009
We’ve all heard and/or read about secondary school teachers who are exemplars of the ancient Roman poet, Catullus. His most notable poem, “Odi et Amo” or, “I Hate and I Love,” expresses his ardent feelings toward his mistress, Lesbia, conflicted emotions due to the fact she dumped him.
Many, too many, of today’s teachers seem to have an equally-conflicting love, or lust, for some of their students which actually reflects a deep hatred for who and what they are, namely children.
If not totally innocent children, they are usually far less experienced, guileful, and worldly young people than the teachers and mentors who seduce and abuse them, whether they feel seduced and abused or not.
And classroom teachers are certainly not the only seducers and abusers of immature, “young adults,” a contemporary label which confers on kids an undeserved and misleading aura of adulthood. School administrators and supervisors at all levels of education are also complicit in the smarminess.
The latter contribute to the near-epidemic incidents of illicit teacher-student relationships by tolerating student garb which is often more appropriate to a streetwalker in Times Square than a classroom setting.
They design courses for high school kids more fitting for college-level students. They authorize and condone course material and readings one might expect in College English 101 but which only serve to stoke already-blazing teenage hormones. Then they express shock and indignation when wayward teachers hit on the kids.
Not often mentioned is the seductive behavior of the kids, behavior not offered as an excuse for lecherous teachers who should know better than become involved with children but, too often, don’t know better.
An Atlanta, Georgia teacher allegedly accented the “odi” rather than the “amo” part of Catullus’ poem: “Randolphe Forde, 
a teacher at Mundy’s Mill High School has been charged with making terroristic threats,” an extreme charge considering that all he did was try to hire a “hit student” to kill another student at his school.
Forde’s motive is not as yet known but it’s likely it went beyond chewing gum in class. The attorney for the target victim suggested it was because the 16 year old is gay and that Forde threatened to “hit him in his ‘effin mouth:” http://bit.ly/3UDCXy
Such hatred-inspired incidents are rare. Most often teacher indiscreet lust is the inspiration. Students may be gullible but one would think they should be more informed by now as to the dangers of sexual liaisons, even with teachers.
However, despite the mandated courses in sex ed that are prevalent today, the CDC reports that “sex infections,” STD’s, especially among teenagers, is a growing problem in America.
According to a Reuters report, “Latest statistics on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis show the three highly treatable infections continue to spread in the United States.”
Worse news is that, “Adolescent girls 15 to 19 years had the most chlamydia and gonorrhea cases of any age group at 409,531″ and “Blacks, who represent 12 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for about 71 percent of reported gonorrhea cases and almost half of all chlamydia and syphilis cases in 2008.”
Full stats, including the disproportionate numbers of gays contracting syphilis, are available here: http://bit.ly/3b4Kbt.
One sex-ed oops-awareness moment came to the good people at Timken High School in Canton, Ohio when, lo and behold 65 of 490, or 13% of Timken girls, turned up pregnant.
Promotion of abstinence at Timken will now be supplemented by teaching ”students who decide to have sex how to do so responsibly:” http://bit.ly/3EZ8w7
Yeah, that should work with the current approach to responsibility, work as well as teaching gerbils not to burrow would work.
So, how is all this related to teachers and students? It’s related and interrelated in a number of ways, from our sexed-up culture and “entertainment,” to family dysfunction, and most clearly to the abject failure of sex education in schools.
One English teacher at William Byrd High School in Vinton, Virginia, Kathleen Renard, encouraged her students to ”Read banned books. They’re your ticket to freedom.”
Some may be a ticket to somewhere but one book she was recommending included teen sex, oral sex, masturbation, rape, pedophilia, pederasty, homosexuality, drugs, and bestiality: http://bit.ly/Ah4G6
That’s not exactly Huck Finn or Hamlet quality, Mrs. Renard. Maybe try Catullus?
As one observer expressed it, “Sex at School. When Did that Get Added to the Curriculum?”
Technically, it hasn’t been incorporated directly into any curricula that I know of but rather sex has been inculcated into the minds and hearts of children, instilled and impressed into their immature psyches as a method of indoctrination, thanks to distortions in many sex education courses.
That article questioning when sex was added to the curriculum focuses on another teacher, in Florida this time. Heath Miller, “band director” at H.L. Watkins Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens
Miller is “now under investigation of [sic] sexual abuse of students.” It’s alleged that the band man also was a porn aficionado, as in pictures he took of himself in action with students.
In an added fillip to this story, Miller had “his mistress–yeah, you read that right–who’s a teacher at the school to remove the memory card [with the verbotten pictures] from the school’s band room so police wouldn’t find it:” http://bit.ly/4rzhq1
As I often say, you can’t make this stuff up, folks.
However, back to that sex ed component of student life.
Children are curious creatures by definition and a principal preoccupation of their curiosity is the world of sex, pretty much cloaked in mystery until fairly recently.
Especially in our modern age, infused as it is with sexual images and suggestions, sex ed is a necessity, but not the sex education featuring proper condom use via bananas nor, as sex advocates are now advocating, such education starting in kindergarten.
Let kids be kids and play with Barbies and Tonka trucks before complicating their lives.
Based on the aforementioned CDC report, current approaches to sex ed have been miserable failures.
It remains for true experts in the field–not people with agendas such as Kevin Jennings or the “experts” at Planned Parenthood who most often plan abortions–to design courses with a priority given to the integrity of girls and women and not cater to their baser impulses.
Sex is an integral part of adult life and people will always “do it.” Let’s encourage young people to wait until they “do it” and before they ruin their lives.
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