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So… what’s with all the female schoolteachers in the news lately? And not for good things – remember “The 3 Rs” – reading, writing, and arithmetic? There seems to be a FOURTH “R” with some female schoolteachers out there – rape.
My opening statement today, is about what I am now calling - Predatory School Teachers. In Louisiana, 32 year old English teacher Shelly Dufresne along with her friend and colleague fellow teacher Rachel Respess were arrested and charged with – get this – having a THREESOME with a 16 year old male student – and MULTIPLE times! The women were found out when the boy was bragging around school that he was sleeping with his teachers. Well yeah, I’m guessing word like that would travel fast! He’s probably a rock star with his buddies. I mean this is like part music video and part porno movie – so I’ve heard! Well, after learning that she avoided jail time, Dufresne posted a celebratory selfie of herself on Instagram the same night, using smiley face emojis to show how happy and relieved she was. And her followers congratulated her! Seriously? Well no wonder she’s hanging out with 16 year olds because this kind of behavior shows the maturity level and common sense of a teenager. If you’ve been accused of something so perverted as having multiple threesomes with one of your 16-year-old students – maybe lay low for awhile? Maybe show some discretion? Maybe stay off social media just hours after the judge gives you the benefit of the doubt? Maybe Ms. Dufresne should have checked her iCommon sense app before logging onto Instagram for an online victory party. This reminds me of when Paris Hilton started arranging her “I got out of jail free” party the first time she got out of jail, then the judge found out about it, and tossed her back in. Common sense violation. At age 16 this is just an average boy’s fantasy? So it’s no big deal? Who’s the victim here? Is there a double standard her? Could you imagine if it was 1 girl and 2 adult male teachers? People would show up on the pedophile pervert’s doorstep with lit torches calling for his head! Also in the news this week, possibly the most famous predatory schoolteacher of them all, Mary Kay Letourneau sat down with Barbara Walters to update us all on her life. Because believe me I don’t know about you - but I have been asking for years – whatever happened to that schoolteacher who slept with and later married her 13 year old male student Vili Fualaau? Well, as the couple - now 53 and 31 years old – shared with Barbara Walters, it’s apparently just normal family life now. One big happy family. Except for the little things… like how Letourneau wasn’t allowed to visit her teenage daughter in the hospital earlier this year because of her convicted sex offender status. Which, by the way, Letourneau is working to get revoked. So my question is: Why does it seem like this is happening more and more all the time? Or is it just being publicized more? Because as I said before, I don’t think it’s the teenage boys who are showing up at the police station complaining. They’re bragging to their friends! It’s their parents who are the ones speaking up! Even Mary Kay Letorneau’s young husband said that he wouldn’t support younger kids, like his two teenage daughters with Letorneau, being married or having a relationship with an older person. What a hypocrite! Or is he just someone who learned from his own mistakes? Or did he think that he and his one time schoolteacher were somehow above the law? That they were outside of the rules? But overall – what is GOING ON with these female schoolteachers? What are they thinking? I mean I know we’ve heard that people date in the workplace because of their lack of available dating options outside of work; is it this bad for teachers that the only guys they can find to date are sitting in the desks in front of them every day? Ever hear of eHarmony ladies? Or maybe Cougar Life.com where older women go to find younger men to date. Are there not enough legal aged men for female teachers to date anymore that they need to turn to their students? Or is there something just not wired correctly in their brains? Or is it a moral issue – they don’t know any better and think they can get away with it? I want to hear from you: WHAT are these female schoolteachers thinking? And why do they seem to be getting away with things that male teachers would be CRUCIFIED for doing with female students? Is there a double standard?
5/6/2015
The Court of iCommon Sense As originally heard on Judge Cristina Live at 9 on KABC Radio
There’s a term that I created and have used quite a bit here on the show, called iCommon Sense. It’s something that I made up after reading a story about a couple who left their young children in the car on a cold night while they attended a wine tasting, and turned on the Facetime feature of their iPhones to keep an eye on the kids. They thought that their smart phones apparently were so smart, that they qualified as human babysitters. I said – well jeez, since everyone is so addicted to their smart phones, technology, and social media, we should create an app called iCommon Sense because let’s face it – common sense isn’t very common at all! The phrase stuck and I started using it in stories where people demonstrate a lack of common sense – and usually suffer the consequences as a result; or someone around them does. So let me ask you: Do you think technology and social media have replaced common sense? Are we so dependent on our devices and the internet that we can’t even think for ourselves anymore? Well today I’m going to present some evidence to you so you can make an informed decision on the answers to those very questions. So without further ado: Here Ye’ Here Ye’ – The Court of iCommon Sense is officially called to order with – ME – the honorable judge Cristina Perez presiding. So the first case in the Court of iCommon Sense – where technology has replaced thinking – deals with everyone’s social media network – Facebook. I’m looking at a story here about a daycare worker in Texas who was fired before her first day of work at a new job. And it was all because she posted a status update on Facebook that read: “I start my new job today. But I absolutely hate working at daycare. I just really hate being around a lot of kids.” Now imagine you’re the owner of the daycare center – isn’t that exactly what you’d want to hear from your new employee? I’m going to guess no, it’s not. Well her boss did find out about the post and told the woman not to bother coming into work. Fired before she even clocked in. The woman later said that when she lands her next job – which I’m guessing won’t be in daycare after all this publicity – she will keep her opinions to herself. Good movie genius. My verdict here in the court of iCommon Sense? Guilty! After I read this story, I got curious about how many other people have been fired for what they posted on Facebook. So I searched online using the phrase “fired over Facebook post” – and I found a whole PAGE of headlines! Prison official fired over facebook post. Waitress fired after complaining about bad tips on facebook. Bartender fired after facebook rant goes viral. And even – 19 Facebook posts that got people ARRESTED! Do any of these people know that the internet, especially social media, is a public place? No matter what privacy settings you have in place – if you put it online, you’re putting it out for everyone to see. And don’t blame Facebook either… it’s all in the fine print you agreed to when you signed up for an account. You can post that bogus notice that’s always going around the site all you want - that “I hereby declare that I own all my content, I claim my private, Facebook doesn’t own me” – and so on. But the fact is, when you log on to Facebook you are basically getting in front of a live TV camera and sharing your life with the whole world. With that in mind – doesn’t it make the most sense to only post things that you wouldn’t mind for the whole world to see? Facebook, I’m sure, didn’t come to the defense these people I’ve just mentioned who posted rants about their jobs or their bosses. So don’t count on Facebook being there for you either. Mark Zuckerberg does not care if you said something stupid and got fired because of it. So for the sake of time, I decided to group all the people in these stories about Facebook posts gone horribly wrong, together into one class action iCommon sense lawsuit and say – guilty. This brings up the question: WHAT is this compulsive need we have to share every detail of our lives, every thought in our head, every meal we ate today – on social media? Is this the place where people now go to get attention and feel validated about their lives? Is the Internet nothing but an epicenter for narcissism and sympathy? Now I certainly can’t fault people for needing an ego boost or needing to vent about their life… we are human after all. Life happens! Sometimes good, sometimes not so good. We need a place to let it all out once in awhile, right? My point is that perhaps the extremely public, worldwide forum that is social media, is not that place. When I’m upset I vent to my husband, or my sister, or my girlfriends. And sometimes there’s wine involved. But I don’t go online and tell the world about it… well actually – I take that back... If I want to vent about something that’s happening in the news, apparently I go live on the radio and give all of YOU my opinion. But that’s professional, not personal. One of my favorite dichos – which are like Spanish proverbs, words of wisdom - that I learned from my parents is: La ropa sucia se lava en casa. Which means - “Dirty clothes, wash at home. Keep problems at home.” And that is the advice I would give to everyone who appeared in the Court of iCommon Sense today. Keep your dirty laundry at home – not all over Facebook. Court adjourned. Now it’s your turn to weigh in: Do you post your dirty laundry on social media? Do you feel safe doing that or do you understand the risk involved? |
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