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Originally Posted by dellinger63
The reason I got involved with SNAP in the first place was because of a sense of guilt. I and most everyone at the school, including parents knew what was going on and didn't stop it. Probably because it involved juniors and seniors who were not abused by force or coercion but willingly.
To me it would have been the same for my female Spanish teacher to have asked me out for a weekend downtown and then abused me. Doesn't make it right but it's a far cry from child molestation. Had it taken place it would have undoubtedly effected future relationships and that is what the surviving victims are dealing with. And knowing me at the time I would have undoubtedly chosen to be a victim.
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A teacher-student relationship is an abuse of power on the part of the teacher. Coercion comes in many forms, and it's a teacher's responsibility to behave appropriately. No, it's not technically the same as child molestation because the people involved are not pre-pubescent (although the article Danzig linked to mentioned a 13-year-old, which would fall under hebephilia, I think), but it's still abuse.
When I was in college I had a teacher who got involved with one of my classmates. The teacher was in his early 30s and the student in his early 20s, and the student was heavily closeted at the time. They were both legal adults, but it still really screwed up my classmate and the whole atmosphere of the class, because of course, we all knew. It made for a really, really uncomfortable semester and my classmate didn't get over it for a long time.