I was more than pleased to see Rachel Johnson’s sensible comment in the Mail On Sunday regarding the 44 year old man who was allowed to walk free from court last week even though it was proven, that he did indeed have sexual contact with, a then, 16 year old girl, whilst ‘in a position of trust as one of her teachers’.
Despite the outcry from many organisations ranging from the NSPCC, Barnardo’s, The National Association for People Abused in Childhood, and the End Violence Against Women campaigners to name but a few, I think the leniency shown to the teacher was justified.
Honestly, talk about over reaction. This was consexual sex. Yes it was ill judged, and foolish, but it was still consensual. The pupil was not raped, or co-erced and as such in my view, this means that the teacher should NOT be labelled as any sort of paedophile, as he is not.
This pupil wanted him, she made sure she got him. Girls of 16 can be incredibly manipulative. It is not always the man.
The teacher is guilty of being weak, having a dreadful lack of judgement, and on a far grander scale, showing total disrespect to both his long suffering wife, and in the bigger picture his employers.
As a Mother and Grandmother, I honestly wonder if some of these protesters are living in a box somewhere and do not actually get out there and see, and experience REAL life, REAL situations that they are supposed to be aware of.
Don’t they realise just how a weak willed teacher ‘might’ have his head turned by a strong willed, streetwise, pretty fabulous looking girl who is 15 going on 25 and is actually still in year 11.
Here is a young friend of mine and in this picture she is 15. She is a gorgeous, bright, funny, strong minded, girl, who thankfully instead of making eyes at a male teacher, is more likely to kick him in the nuts, and tell him to ‘do one’ if he dared to even dream about invading her personal space.
She has a fantastic family around her, and is confident enough NOT to seek the attentions of an unsuitable man.
BUT, what if she was needy and attention seeking, with looks like this, if SHE turned on her charms, and decided she was going to ‘have’ SIR, she could.
No matter how many ‘agencies’ bang on about child protection, it’s not always the child that needs it, as Rachel Johnson says, the laws are there to protect the teacher as much as the pupil, and what a good job it is.
Look at another one of my friends. She is 15. Again from a very close knit family, she’s confident, strikingly attractive, intelligent, popular, and streetwise. Already an aspiring model, she’s clever, and cool enough to simply give ‘SIR’ the most withering of looks and tell him to get lost if he thought he was in with a chance. 
But what if she was needy, and attention seeking, with looks like this if SHE turned on her charms, and decided she was going to ‘have’ SIR, she could.
Way back in the late 60’s, when school youth clubs were popular, and before the formation of many of these child protection agencies, I also nearly ‘had’ SIR.
He wasn’t actually my teacher, but he ran a youth club that I used to go to at a different school, and I was out to get him.
Now, some 47 years later, I recall he was dark, swarthy looking, he smoked roll ups and had lovely hooded eyes. He was an absolute stalwart of the local community, involved in sport, music, and many other school related activities, but was still something of a rebel.
At the time, he was 40 years old. I was 15 years old, small, blonde and used to getting my own way, this poor bloke had no chance. He had absolutely no ill intent towards me. He was kind, looked out for me, and never acted inappropriately towards me in any way whatsoever, until I almost forced him to!
Luckily for him, we were interrupted and the moment was gone, but I know without a doubt that given five more minutes, it would have been an entirely different story I’d be telling you, I don’t think I’d have allowed him to refuse!
But then, as now, IF rumours had started, police and my parents would have been involved and he probably would have lost his job, and lost his good name, and it truly would all have been my fault, not his.
These days, boys and girls are sexting, texting and talking about sex before they’ve even left junior school. A high percentage of them know exactly what’s what in the sexual timetable of life.
Boys can be just as manipulative as girls, and if ‘Miss’ happens to be fit and flirty, then she too will be shown no mercy by the one who wants to be her favourite and have a fumble in the form room.
But if things did go too far and the boy cried wolf, then you can be sure it would be all the fault of ‘Miss’ in her moment of madness.
What do you think about the story in the newspapers? Do you know anyone who actually had a fling with their teacher, maybe you had more than just a crush on yours?
Once again, I agree with everything you say. !5 and 16 year old girls are jail bait. We had a student art teacher, and he was the only male in an all girls school. He was very fit, and we all tried to ‘have’ him. He was terrified, and asked to be transferred to finish his teaching practice after we debagged him during one particularly rowdy art lesson. Just imagine if he’d been older and more streetwise. He could have had all of us – probably more than once!