Teacher Student Sexpidemic

September 20, 12:50 PMEducation Headlines ExaminerAndrea Hermitt

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Worldnetdaily has compiled an exhaustive list of female teachers who have violated students.  The students range from elementary school to high and there are even special needs students included.  Keep in mind that this list does not include male teachers who violate students.  A quick count gave me almost 170 teachers, many of whom violated several students. 

Some of the more heinous incidents are: 

• Carol Flannigan, 50: Boca Raton, Fla., music teacher reportedly slept with 11-year-old former student, and also had a simultaneous sexual relationship with the boy's father. In a deposition, the boy's father said he had the same sort of sexual relationship with Flannigan that ex-President Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky. In February 2006, Flannigan was sentenced to five years prison as part of a plea deal.
• Georgianne Harrell, 24: Teacher at Holley Elementary School in Sylvester, Ga., charged with performing oral sex on a 9-year-old boy in April 2005, allowing students to gaze down her blouse and slashing her wrists with glass in front of her students. Though she originally pleaded not guilty, she changed her plea to guilty just before trial, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for aggravated child molestation.
• Jennifer Rice, 31: Tacoma, Wash., teacher arrested Aug. 11, 2007, for allegedly kidnapping and raping her 10-year-old student numerous times. Rice was an instructor at McKinley Elementary School whose contract was not renewed after the school received complaints she was socializing inappropriately with students. Authorities say Rice admitted she raped the fourth-grade boy at a rest stop, and court documents indicate the pair had intercourse several times on previous occasions, including once in the boy's home. On Sept. 10, 2007, prosecutors filed additional charges against Rice for allegedly raping another boy, age 14- to 16-years old.

This is another reason that there should be two teachers in a classroom and that no teacher and student should be alone one-on one.  This is not only for the protection of the student, but also so that a teacher that is falsely accused can have someone to back them up.