Another teacher busted...this one in my hometown
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Cleveland? We played Cleveland in the 3A playoffs in 84’. Yep. I’m getting older.
First off her name is Kaitlynn. Strike one. Spelt with two n’s. Strike two. Bleached hair. You’re out.
Nothing I’ve read about this case so far indicates that the sex was non-consensual. That teacher is very attractive and I cannot imagine any 16-18 y.o. straight dude turning her down. For the vast majority, it would be a dream come true.
If the sex was non-consensual then yeah, I can agree with your take. Seems very unlikely though.
Probably cell phone and/or computer analysis searching for deleted files.
If she has a problem later making it through life, she can come and stay with me.
I am sure my wife would not mind.
I am sure my wife would not mind.
I guess I wasn't as clear. He reached the peak of the mountain He won't be able to top it. For adults she is an attractive woman. For a high school student she is the impossible dream. He ate a steak at a top steak house and now everything will be a sirloin at Applebee's.
I mean, these dudes can’t keep any secrets. I’m amazed.https://www.kltv.com/2020/07/17/athens-police-arrest-teacher-accused-relationship-with-student/
ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) - A former teacher with Athens ISD has turned herself in on criminal charges following the investigation into her alleged relationship with a student.
Kaitlynn Bethany Kirkland, 24, is charged with improper relationship with a student and tampering with evidence. She was arrested on the charge Friday and has posted a collective bond of $14,500.
On Friday night, the school district released the following statement:
Today, July 17, the Athens Police Department arrested Kaitlynn Kirkland, a former teacher at Athens ISD. She was charged with having an improper relationship with a high school student and tampering with evidence.
We need to see the nudes she more than likely sent.
Geez took 2nd page to get wood. The rona really having an effect on this board.
When I was in HS, dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, and I can guarantee you that even then, this would not have been a secret for longer than 20 minutes. And that was before cell phones, internet, insta-whatever. My guess would be that in the days leading up to the first "encounter," a few of his buds already knew, and were "coaching" him on how to proceed. From the teacher's perspective, this is all still a bit baffling to me, but from his perspective, it was irresistible.
That field was where my football career ended. The grass was too long and my shoe was planted when a linebacker from Navarro hit my knee causing my knee to bend sideways and my head landed beside my foot. I never played again.
Happened to my older sister. My father made them get married.
I'm not the brightest bulb so please explain.This assault was 1st reported in nov 2019 and they took her dress as evidence?
You're kidding,right? I hope you mean that nothing will equal this?
I am sure this has been happening for as long as there have been young teachers and slightly younger students. You don't remember it because for a large portion of our lives (at least for me, born in 1970), reported news was determined by editors constrained by column inches or available airtime, and in 1985 stories like this just don't make it out of the local barbershop or bar of whatever town it happened in. We see this in the news now because the internet has given us effectively infinite column inches and airtime to show "news" with a clickbait inentivisation system so of course hot teacher mugshots get a lot of views. Sex sells (or generates clicks).
Using this thread as a bit of a soapbox rant - this illustrates a problem I see with the internet. We (people collectively) are geared toward recency bias - there weren't that many lions 30,000 years ago but see one and you start really looking for more as a survival mechanism. Seeing a story on the internet (teachers, millennials behaving badly, fraternity hazing, etc., etc.) makes us "feel" like something is a big pervasive problem when it is actually probably a localized edge case and not that big a deal. Having just looked this up, I can tell you there are around 1,072,000 high school teachers in the US. Even if there are 1000 improper relationship arrests each year that is a tiny amount statistically and not a national news issue in a time when national news was constrained. What seems like a recent problem or phenomenon isn't. We just see it more. That said, the number of teacher sex cases each year while statistically small is on the rise in the last couple of decades, almost certainly because it is easier for a teacher to communicate clandestinely with a student now than before the digital age.
Today's "cancel culture" is another example of that. Something like 2% of adult Americans make up over 80% of the traffic on twitter, but because a tiny amount of people have a platform to make their message seem pervasive, news organizations and lawmakers give far more weight to those voices than they actually deserve, because we see them/hear them more than we did in the past. Cancel culture isn't a result of a huge number of Americans getting behind a particular issue, it is a result of recency bias coupled with a (relative) few loudmouths with an axe to grind and a platform to shout from, and there is a fear of being shouted at by the same group if they are contradicted publicly.
Another example of recency bias - my wife works in a NICU. If you ask her, there are premie babies with big issues being born left and right, and she is genuinely scared of that happening to her. In reality, only a very tiny percentage of babies are born at 27-33 weeks and have big issues that put them in the NICU, but she sees it all the time so she feels like it is a bigger problem than it really is.
I don't know how to fix it, but the first step is realizing that a lot of "problems" we see aren't really. Hopefully we become a bit more choosy about what we get worked up about or think is a pervasive phenomenon by maintaining skepticism and question our own recency bias.
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I have no idea...it was just a joke.
Isn’t that how they figured out inappropriate behavior between Clinton and Lewinsky? It was her dress with his mess.
What do you mean? Back in our day, if we were having an improper relationship with a teacher, we didn't run to mommy or report her.
Or she maybe she expanded his knowledge of the sex act that will pay dividends for years!?!?
Yep, I took it as a joke, for that same reason. Blue dress IIRC. That hole thing was overblown.
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Whenever I read these articles and they seem vague or use genderless pronouns, I start working on the assumption it was a same-sex thing.
My Coach gave my gf a ride home from a game back in the day, took her by a secluded spot & tried to make a move.
Nowadays he'd be hanged.
Nowadays he'd be hanged.
I think there was a thread on this sometime earlier this year. OB members were relating being hit on by teachers while in HS. Probably happened more than many would want to admit or remember.
What this means is they sent her phone to a forensic computer lab and downloaded it. I’m sure they were referring to texts between the two.
Not a recent phenomenon. I went to a high school that had 200 total kids so around 100 boys. I knew two guys that were banging teachers. This was in the 80’s. Main difference being there were no cell phones as inappropriate pics and texts seem to be the main reasons today’s teacher/student relationships get outed.
Cool. What school? I graduated in 1980. We didn't make the playoffs. We finished second in the district both my years on varsity. Back then only the district winners went to the playoffs. Crosby beat us both years. We had a good team but just couldn't seem to beat those guys.
