Thursday, March 29, 2007

South Carolina scandal

S.C. teachers accused of sex with boys (AP)

Wendie Schweikert, center, a former Laurens County teacher accussed of having sex with her 11-year-old student, arrives for her bond hearing, in a Thursday, May 4, 2006 file photo, in Laurens, S.C. The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties and evoked some of the South's oldest and deepest-seated racial taboos. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties and evoked some of the South's oldest and deepest-seated racial taboos.

~~ My only question.  Why do we center on the women teachers?  Are we saying that the male teachers are all saints?  Or do we believe that there is a different basis / norms for women? 

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