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UK teachers union says sex with some pupils should be allowed
Shanghai News.Net
Sunday 5th October, 2008
A UK school union leader has said teachers should not be prosecuted for having affairs with older pupils.
Chris Keates of the NASUWT union has said an anomaly exists whereby teachers who have sex with an over-16 pupil are put on the sex offenders register.
She told ITV's Tonight program the law was wrong because a teacher could legally enter a relationship with a sixth former at another school.
Ms Keates said the abuse of trust law, which says it is illegal for teachers to engage in sexual activity with pupils at their school aged under 18, had gone too far in cases where a pupil had reached the age of consent.
Child protection professionals have criticised her comments and have said teachers are in a position of trust and breaching that trust is wrong.
Ms Keates in a later interview with the BBC advised members of her union they should strive to keep relationships professional at all times.
She added: "Any teacher or adult who works in schools who sexually abuses a pupil of any age should face the full legal consequences."
A Sheffield University study recently suggested as many as 1,500 intimate relationships develop every year at high schools in the UK.  Email this story to a friend
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Anonymous
10-05-08, 11:02 PM |
UK teachers union says sex with some pupils should be allowed
That sort of looseness in the classroom would provide teachers with grooming opportunities in preparing younger children to be picked off as they reach sixth form.
And what about the favouritism aspect?
No, we parents would prefer our adolescent children to be free of sexual interference by predatory teachers, who may exist in most schools.
Let’s see some self-control amongst the pedagogues.
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waltky
10-05-08, 11:18 PM |
Uncle Ferd wonderin' what the age limit is for British schools?
:p
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Sammy
10-06-08, 01:03 AM |
A full education
It seems nowadays that a full education consists of the teachers to teach the students about sex in the full sense of the word.
Yes, there is a difference between theoretical sex meathods, and practical sex, where the teacher demostrates it by the physical aspect of it to its students.
At times teachers dress in a provocative manner that stimulates the studen’s immagination in having sex with its teacher, and I do believe this may be one of the causes of sex irregularaties in schools.
Who knows if in Muslim schools this sex problem might be less common, because of teacher’s different dress styles.
Sammy
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sandkat
10-07-08, 06:08 AM |
the law or not the law
The law’s argument is that sex is forbidden where the teacher or person in loco parentis has a responsibilty for or can control the behaviour of 'the child' This is the same as where a step-parent takes advantage of step-child.
The age of consent for heterosexual relations in the UK is 16, for homosexual relations between males is is 18 (currently being challenged).
Other countries have lower and higher ages of consent (12-13 in Spain and some latin countries and up to 21 or over in others). Sometimes, of course, the pupil seduces the teacher.
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Anonymous
10-07-08, 10:47 AM |
How is this even open for discussion?
sandkat;107600:
The law’s argument is that sex is forbidden where the teacher or person in loco parentis has a responsibilty for or can control the behaviour of 'the child' This is the same as where a step-parent takes advantage of step-child.
The age of consent for heterosexual relations in the UK is 16, for homosexual relations between males is is 18 (currently being challenged).
Other countries have lower and higher ages of consent (12-13 in Spain and some latin countries and up to 21 or over in others). Sometimes, of course, the pupil seduces the teacher.
I taught adults and would never have crossed that line!
The fact some think it’s OK to abuse the teacher student relationship is appaulling!
Wait until their adults and no longer students is it really that hard to control oneself?
What next sex with the subjects in an animal husbandry class!
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