I am so frustrated lately about an epidemic of female teachers having sex with students lately. The Latest one being Carrie McCandless 30, who taught at Brighton Collegiate High School. she was sentenced to 45 days jail time and five years probation for having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old male student

I know I may take a lot of heat for this, but I'm damn tired of women having their lives ruined and sentenced to jail time for a sexual relationship by mutual consent

Don't get me wrong, I do not condone in any shape way or form what she did, it was immoral and unethical. I just do not see it as a crime and to label her a rapist and a predator is an insult to human intelligence.

Should she have been suspended? Definitely. Undergo counseling? Again definitely. If there is any crime here its that she cheated on her husband. I just do not see how her imprisonment benefits society, the same goes for her teaching, rather than ban her from teaching for life, is it not more productive to rehabilitate her so she can once again be allowed to teach and society can benefit.

She was definitely wrong to do what she did, I just see it more as a moral and ethical crime rather than a legal crime, in our country since he was only 17 at the time it falls under the statutory rape law, the irony in all this is that in many places in Europe for example where the age of majority is anywhere from as young as 14 up to 16 and had the situation happened there it would not have been a crime, at least in the legal sense

I don't know, I just have ambivalent feelings on this, I'm just curious on what other people's opinion is on this. One more thing I'd like to add for an interesting perspective is that many many years ago Van Halen had a music video titled "Hot For The Teacher, in the video a scantily clad teacher strips to her bra bikini and garter belt and high heels and dances and makes out with the male students, at the time it was one of the biggest hits of the year, the video was heavily promoted and condoned and any criticism of it people were laughed at as prudes. Bear in mind that many young girls that saw this video at a young impressionable age are now in there 30's and 40's and many of them now seducing young male students. Could it be all this liberal tolerance of the 80's has now come back to bite us in the ass?