WTF Part II

Runs With Spatula informed the Facebook world that her fabulous blog was somehow posted on "Net Right Nation, The Net Right's Blogging HQ: Your Unique Portal to the Conservative Blogosphere." I giggled quietly to myself, as Spatula, while she doesn't blog often about politics, certainly doesn't fall to the right on the political spectrum. I scrolled down a bit and read the comments under Spatula's status update, and found that my blog made it there, too. Seriously? Have they read my blog, oh say...ever?? I wonder if it would be rude to ask them to remove my blog from their blog list...
**Just to have a little fun, I think I will actually add some labels to this post!!

Note to Teachers, Counselors, etc...

Dear Teachers, Counselors and Other People With Direct Care / Contact With Children:

Please stop fucking the children.

No, really. Just stop.

I found myself involved in a conversation this weekend about teacher-student relationships in the general sense, and specifically about said relationships developing into sexual ones. It was a conversation that had me thinking for a while after. And on Monday, I stumbled upon an article about a counselor at a home for children who had a sexual relationship with one of the children she was in care of. This prompted me to do a quick search of "teacher sex with student" on MLive, which produced over a thousand results. Ick.

My stance is simple: if you're the adult and the one in a position of authority, real or perceived, it's incumbent upon you to maintain a proper distance with the child. Maybe it's my background in auditing that has so strongly enforced the concept of remaining objective both in appearance and in fact that causes me to have such a strong reaction to situations like these. Or maybe it's because I have a nephew and I can't comprehend of a person of authority taking advantage of him. The thought makes me sick. I can't comprehend, as an adult, looking at a child as an object of sexual interest. I can barely comprehend dating someone under 30 at this point.

I don't care if your home life is terrible. I don't care if your spouse ignores you, or if you were abused as a child. I don't care if the kid made the first move. I don't care about any rationale you put forth about having an intimate / sexual relationship with a child (yep, to me that means someone under the age of consent or someone with whom you have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure his or her safety and security, both physical and emotional). Children are children and you should not have inappropriate relationships with them. Resolve your shit on your own. Don't involve innocent children. It screws them up, regardless of what anyone else says.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation,
Carrie

PS - No, I never had an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. Thankfully.

WTF?

Is it really that hard to understand that if you are on the inside lane of two lanes turning right, you should stay in the inside lane instead of immediately "merging" into the left turn lane (which means cutting across two lanes of traffic)? Just wondering...