Comments about ‘Charges say teacher paid boy for sex’

What area they teaching in our colleges to people planing to be teachers?

What are the teachers' unions doing to upgrade their members to at least comply with the law and common decency?

The more I hear about the problems in our public schools, them more I favor home schooling for all children. Home schoolers seem to do at least as well as public school students in all areas. Well, maybe some public school students DO learn more about sexual matter than home schoolers, but that is not a good thing.

We need stricter standards for teachers, their supervisors and their unions. ZERO tolerance for preying on our students!

I don't understand how they are not talking about this at the district and school level. Mr. Cox, please comment on this. I'm a Helper mom and this is not acceptable. Speak about it.

I keep hearing that teachers are underpaid. How can a 28 year old teacher afford to pay that kind of money for illicit/illegal sex?

It all must be part of the stimulas package.Now even the students have a source of making money!

Why anyone would EVER send their kid to public school is beyond me. Do a Google news search of teacher/molesters on any given day and you'll see 75 to 100 stories A DAY similar to this one across the U.S. -- and those are just the situations we know about. How many hundreds or thousands more are unknown?

For many of us, homeschooling is not a choice -- we have to do it just to give our kids a chance.

Gee. All I ever had was a paper route.

Don't be so sure its safer for all kids. There are far, far more kids sexually abused by step-dad, uncle or daddy than by teachers. re: No Public School, your statement is incorrect. There are not 75 to 100 stories a day about teachers molesting kids. There are so many cases of relatives molesting kids every day that it isn't even newsworthy anymore. At least teachers molesting is still uncommon enough that the news prints stories about it.

If the punishments were more severe, like 15-20 years for such behavior, maybe some of these freaks would think twice about going through with their actions.
It seems too many teachers are pleading out and getting away with what amounts to a slap on the hand for having sex with a child. It certainly doesn't add up to the destruction they've caused.
Someone needs to be an example and better yet, maybe a prosecutor needs to be an example and show they aren't afraid to go after someone for their behavior. Seriously, is this different than rape?

When there is man AALLEGED to have sex with or molest a a youner person,

the many come out of the woodwork to condemn him, in no uncertain terms, with virulent hatred, wishing all sorts of pain and death upon him, pyscholgists telling us what a monster he is an so forth, etc.

but a women get alleged of doing something to young person, and the TONE is quite diffent.

QUITE ODD.

No Public School asserted that there are "75 to 100 stories A DAY similar to this one across the U.S." Really? Where did you get that statistic? Maybe there are such "stories," e.g. accusations. What are the statistics on falsely accused teachers? Now THAT would pique my interest.

When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, I had excellent teachers who were content to contribute to society as long as they could make a decent living and pay their bills.

These days, our best college students seek careers that promise lucrative salaries. Teaching pays so poorly that public schools take what they can get, and too often they end up with people of low moral character who are barely literate themselves. Their classes are like the blind leading the blind.

If we want to weed out these people, why don't we pay teachers what they're worth, attracting our best and brightest college students to teaching? Let's increase the standards and make it so hard to become a teacher that slime-balls can't make the grade.

In Utah, we love to quote platitudes and bad 80s ballads ("I believe the child are our future") when it comes to our kids, but we won't educate them properly if it will cost us a nickel.

Teachers spend more time with our kids than most of us do. Shouldn't we try to guarantee that our teachers are among society's best and brightest?

it is becoming a trend, looks like...Can we see a photo of this teacher?

What shocks me is that there are schools that have more than one teacher who engages in this type of behavior. Disgusting.

Where were all these sexed starved teachers when I was a kid...

Robtro, there was plenty of this in my HS in the 70s and 80s it just never made the news. I personally was aware of 5 teachers having sex with students. There were allegations of more but I'm talking about the ones I knew firsthand were doing this. One teacher told me he pick the girls freshman year so he could have them for 3-4 years. He was a band teacher eventually fired, an English teacher had runaway girls living with him, he would "protect" them if they had regular sex with him. Another music teacher I knew would "mentor" certain girls at his home or weekend camping trips, it was an honor to them, they bragged about because those who put out got recommendations and assistance into better college programs. My brother was told he could raise his grade up if he would fool around with a female teacher during after school homework where she would help him pass while doing services for her etc. None of this is new, it's just that society is more willing to talk about it instead of hiding it like in the past or blaming the kids.

I have known this young lady for her entire life. I assure you there is more to this story than what is being reported. She is not the horrible person you think. Please withold judgement. I agree that this situation should never occur but I know the heart, the soul the integrity of Ms. Andreini and will wait for the truth to be heard.

The IRS should make sure the boy lists the income on his tax form and pays taxes on it. Seriously! If he took the money it is income and should be reported. Since he claimed it in official documents submitted to the court under oath, he damn well better be required to report it.

Something in this whole story "just ain't right". I know of several people who were publicly charged with sexual harrasement and contributing to the deliquiency of a minor and lost their job and were publically ruined (very small town)but later the claims were dropped when it got to court. The girls said they were having some "emotional problems" resulting from a disfunctional family life. This is much much worse if the charges are false. After all, where is any collaborating evidence such as DNA samples or a whole host of other things that would help support his claims. It isn't adding up.