What a way to welcome the kids back to school.
Erica DePalo won the coveted award of 'Teacher Of The Year" last year in Essex County, New Jersey. This 33 year old teacher now faces charges of having a sexual relationship with one of her 15-year-old honors English students. DePalo was described as being really close with the students. Now the allegation is that she was a little too close. DePalo was officially charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged relationship supposedly began on June 15 and ended last Tuesday.
Even though DePalo is considered innocent until otherwise proven in a court of law, the West Orange Public School district announced that DePalo has been suspended "immediately and indefinitely" much to the disappointment of her students. While such allegations are distasteful and evidence of a growing epidemic, one can only ponder that if such allegations were true in my day, then perhaps more teenage boys might have looked forward to the start of school year.
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teachers now days are just plain sick. or at least a lot of them are. if this chick were a man it would be no laughing matter.
The image of teachers is truly trending down as documented:
http://legalpublication.blogspot.com/2012/04/teaching-profession-trending-down-by.html
(While such allegations are distasteful and evidence of a growing epidemic, one can only ponder that if such allegations were true in my day, then perhaps more teenage boys might have looked forward to the start of school year.)
I wonder the same...I don't think it is something that just started in the last 10 years or so. As I posted before, there was a gym teacher at my highschool that was forced out because of his relationship with a female student. even thought she was 18 at the time.
I'm thinking some of the female teachers may have acted in the same manner but most likely, a teen boy will not complain about it. Nor would society have thought it as bad as a male teacher with a female student during that era.
Now that I think about it…there were not any young hot female teachers at my highschool during that era. But there were hotties teaching at my grade school. And I think the thinking back then was; they wanted older experienced teachers with the older students…and the respect of age as an environment and disciplinary effect.
Hard for a teen to respect a teacher just a few years older than them.
I think now days they no longer follow that thinking…and this may be a result.
Could be
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