Courtesy of my good friends over at
Gothamist,
I've learned that there's apparently a number of high-profile cases
involving improper student-teacher relations across the city. The
unusual and unifying aspect of all these cases is that they all
involved a female teacher and a male student.
Yesterday, a 30-year-old
public school teacher was arrested
on charges that she raped a 13-year-old boy who may have been one of
her students. The day before, 23-year-old Bronx public school music
teacher Emily Streb, was
arraigned on rape charges
for allegedly having had sex with a 16-year-old special-ed student.
This is accompanied by all the coverage being generated by a current
trial involving a former Montessori principal accused of
starting a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student 11 years ago.
It's all so
Notes On A Scandal (except
none of the teachers look like Cate Blanchett.) Another weird case of
life imitating art? I don't know. What I DO know is that I hope there
isn't any double standard when it comes to cases involving female
teachers and male students. Though the gender relationships have
historically been reversed, sex with a 13-year-old is rape. Period!
