Another teacher-student romance novel nomination....

OR 28 and 16. She's now 29. Almost twice his age.

Good work, Marky Mark.

 

Hormones can still be active at age 28, or 29. And, no, she isn't the first.

 

This is pathethic. How many cases of this have we seen this year? Over the past five years? If these are the kind of people that colleges and universities across the country are putting into classroom's, there needs to be something done.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers were fairly static over the years. We just hear about it more now due to the 24-hour news cycle.

 

Agreed. There weren't blogs solely devoted to these cases even five years ago.

I'm guessing many of these teachers, though, would at least know how to pluralize the word classroom.

 

Good point. But just to say that we don't hear about it doesn't necessarily say it hasn't happened, either.

Take steroids in sports, for example. Steroids wasn't really in the news as much in the past as it is today with many people (i.e. A-Rod, Sosa, etc.) having come out and said they've done them.

Obviously you need to take into account the availability of such drugs and the testing procedures available then, but that's a whole different story.

 

No, no, no...this kind of stuff is up...way up. Sex, in general, is so much more prevalent in culture. Technology gets an assist, too. How many text messages took the place of the actual conversations the two would have had to have in order to reach the point they did?

 

I would agree. Seems to me like this is much more prevalent today.