Bad thing, bad thingNBC San Diego went out on a limb to condemn teacher-student sexual relationships. Such relationships, they say, always cross a sacred line. Not to be picky, but the line is "decency." The word never shows up once in the article. We also take issue with declaring the problem is one of unequal relationship and authority. It's one of moral degeneracy and sexual predation and coercion.
The lengths that so-called intellectuals will go to condemn something without reference to morality or decency (or law) is amazing.
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Credential Suspended
California authorities have taken the unusual move of suspending the credential of Franca Munoz-Juvera. She's one of the twins accused of having sex with a female student. What's odd is that California never suspends a credential before the legal process is completed. A teacher can be accused of multiple acts of murder and sex in the school cafeteria but will retain his or her license in California even if it takes 10 years for a trial to conclude. A clue might be that the school district announced that an outside investigator will look into the Adelanto district's procedures that allowed the Munoz-Juvera sisters to be hired. There's something in the teacher's history that, clearly, due diligence should have precluded hiring her. Our hope is that the father of the girl hires a good attorney to discover the same thing.
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Nothing Else to Do
Van Clifton McKenzie-Adams was sentenced to seven years prison in 2004 for having sex with two students. Since that time, however, he appealed and lost a round in the Connecticut Supreme Court last February. Then he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court has declined to hear the case. Now it's back to jail. The good thing, though, is his case has established that laws that criminalize teacher-student sex do not infringe on one's constitutional right to privacy.
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