I had to decide at 17. No, 16. I was 17 when i graduated but at 16 I had to tailor my life towards university. I was depressed and anxious and undiagnosed for both. I was NOT ready.

I wonder how all of this will affect her injunction appeal. Sony said she could work with other producers but then admitted after the PR backlash they actually had no control over Kesha’s contract. It would seem Sony’s lawyers were less than honest in court. Kesha released a new single True Colors a couple of weeks…

Hearing about it. My high school teacher who I was very close with got caught fucking a student in his classroom at 2 am. This was a few years after I graduated and I was pretty distraught (my family’s priest friend that I have known my entire life and also was very close to was in fucking jail in LA facing…

Agreed. I didn’t really know the letter writing teacher as well as my partner who worked with her but I side-eyed the hell out of her until she was fired early the next school year for calling in hungover too often. I know what you’re thinking, “she was a hot mess?! No!!” Shocking, I know.

And there are others entrusted with kids - foster homes, jails, therapists, etc., who seem to not be bound by this law.

Yea, that’s a better approach. And.. therapists, foster homes, and pastors (to add to the youth pastors).

I know a 22-year-old highschool teacher who wrote a love poem to a student, and gave it to another teacher to read first!! Maybe it was a cry for help cause the other teacher was like “girl NO you can NOT give that to the student or start a romantic or sexual relationship with them!!!!”

Because that would get 18-20 year olds in trouble for being involved with other people in their peer group who aren’t legally adults. We could probably drop the age of consent all together in favor of laws barring superior-subordinate relationships and catch just as many predators. It’s always the teacher, or the…

I don’t think that’ll fly. Teachers have an important (existential) place in our culture. They are, after family, the only people we’ll entrust our children with for long periods of the day.

Word, I advocate for both. I just know that my study abroad experience had to be cut short, while many of my peers enjoyed a longer trip, because I had to return to keep my scholarship and graduate on time. Neither option is easy, a lot of people get involved with work, which in turn, can involve other necessities…

This is where the whole idea of “community standards” comes into play. We (those who made the foolish decision to procreate) expect our children to be safe and sound at school, not to be climbed into by a teacher thrice their age. This lady better get the book thrown at her.

I know many folks wonder why an adult woman would want to have sex with a teenaged boy. But often it’s not just about sex, but also about power. You know, just like it is with many men who do the same to teen girls.

The institutional sexual assault charge was introduced because she worked at his school.

Was it Tina Fey who said “how are these women supposed to resist these boys and the smell of chewing gum and axe body spray mixed with day old sweat?”

Let's make this shit algebraic. Child gets shot by entitled man as revenge for woman's rejection = why was she outside of her home anyway?

Right? I taught freshman English for several years, starting when I was about 27-28. And, ok, I found a few of the 18-19 year old boys attractive, but even the thought of acting on it was squicky. They’re practically still children in so many ways. And you’re the teacher! It’s just inherently wrong. I don’t get it.

It is broken again and again. Also, as a teacher of college students, what the ever-loving hell?!? I do not get it.

“Don’t have sex with your students” seems like a really easy rule not to break. And yet...

First of all, to all the assholes who said that they didn’t get why she was suing him because he said it was fine to work with other producers, here’s a massive I told you so. Once a controlling prick, always a controlling prick.

“MY GOAL IS NOT TO WAKE UP AT 40 WITH THE BITTER REALIZATION THAT I’VE WASTED MY LIFE IN A JOB I HATE BECAUSE I WAS FORCED TO DECIDE ON A CAREER IN MY TEENS.” -Daria