Wow, what a week!

[Margies3]

On Monday we hear from the news that the high school our son would have attended if we had not adopted him was the sight of a school shooting where 3 children lost their lives.

Today, Keith came home from school with the news that one of his teachers was suspended today because of allegations that she had been having sex with a student (a friend of Keith!). This is a lady who I did daycare for several years ago. I watched her oldest son for 4 years. She was not at all involved with her son as far as I could see. Her husband brought him here in the morning and picked him up at the end of the day. I saw her about twice a month if that. But as a teacher, Keith really liked her. He had her for 2 years in a row. The word is that it is possible that Mark, the student, just made this up and started the rumor himself. That he had told a select group of people just to "test" them to see if they were really his friends. His feeling was supposed to have been that if they were really true friends, they would not rat him out. No one really knows for sure what the truth is in all of this.

What a scary world we are living in, eh!

[KeptByTheWord]

I say the teacher should be innocent until proven guilty! Allegations like this destroy families and relationships, even when they prove to be untrue.

I agree... what a week you've had!

[Margies3]

I totally agree. This is a boy who has had some BIG hurdles to jump over in his lifetime. To top it all off, he lost his father last year. So it's possible that he did make this whole thing up. But even if he did, he has ruined her career.

[trialedbyfire]

I think this is a movie every Bible Believing Baptized Christian with children or who plan to have them anytime soon should seriously take a look at and consider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEav_crOZ2A

[Sherri]

That was a scary video, but I believe it, for the most part. My son attended a wonderful elementary school where the principal and all the teachers were committed Christians, but it was a rural public school. Many times the teachers would take the kids out in the hall and pray with them if there was a problem. But that school was RARE. When he got to sxith grade and was going to have to do to the middle school in town, I started home schooling!

[Jay]

You have had quite a week. I hope that next week is better.

[CC1]

25 years ago I met a Baptist youth pastor who had a young teenage girl in his youth group who was being raised by a single mother. The mother was over worked and stressed out (although that is no excuse) and did not have the patience or parenting schools to deal with a rebellious teen.

At some point the mother started slapping the girl around out of frustration. She got reported to child services and almost lost her daughter. That so upset her that she vowed to work to become a good mother and to that end took parenting classes and I think even anger management classes if I remember correctly.

The mom was doing great and very excited about how well she was doing raising her daughter. Then she told her daughter she could not do something the daughter really wanted to do (I think a trip somewhere with other teens).

The daughter went to this youth pastor and accused her mother of physically abusing her again. She was very convincing and he knew it had happened in the past so he dutifully reported it to the authorities.

It turned out the girl made it up to "get back" at her mother. Once she realized how serious the situation was she told the truth but almost caused her mother to lose custody of her and go to jail.

The scary thing is that sometimes it is so hard to know the truth. So far in every case I have read about of a teacher student relationship there has been text messages, notes, or nude pics to corroborate the affair. If there is not evidence like that and the accusation is strictly here say I believe she should be considered innocent.

[The Matt]

When you're a kid, the idea of a teacher even coming on to you, without going past that, isn't a bad idea to them.