Teachers Talk About Why They Had Sex With Their Students

Before watching the video for this story, it's good to remember some of the things Our Lady told the child visionaries at Fatima in 1917:

"I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not continue to offend Our Lord, Who is already too much offended."

"Wars are a punishment for the sins of mankind."

"More souls go to Hell because of the sins of the flesh than for any other reason."

"Certain fashions are being introduced that offend Our Lord very much."

"Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God."

"Pray, pray a great deal, and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to Hell because they have no-one to make sacrifices and pray for them."

The link to the story has a quick commercial first. Click here to watch: Substitute Teacher Arrested In Sex Scandal (The Segment Includes Clips Of Other Teachers Explaining What Led Them To Have Sex With Their Students)

My thoughts:

It is tragic to see how these women ruined their lives, but as I watched, I felt they were blessed to be brought so low while they could still repent.

The shame expressed by one teacher in the clip is but a shadow of the shame and despair the damned will feel at their particular and general judgment.

Worth reading: Do Many Go To Hell?

Any thoughts?

Comments

[Jimbo]

I have been a social worker with foster children for over twelve years. I have coached basketball for over ten years at an Orange County high school. (No, not Mater Dei, for those of you following the Andrade case!) And I'm working toward getting my credential in special education right now. The number one reason for male therapist (and probably teachers) losing their license is for inappropriate relations with female clients.

The philosophical underpinnings of psychology, which also support the M-TV and entertainment nonsense we're seeing all around us, are largely to blame for this. Well, and the fact that these lies comport with our baser instincts and lend a certain degree of self-delusional justifications for sin. These have come to regard any denial or repression of things sexual as neuroses inducing. Freedom has come to mean doing almost whatever you personally want, irrespective of the damage it may cause to ohers. Damage is only physical damage, by the way, as spiritual-emotional damage carries little weight, since it can't be weighed or known precisely.

[Literacy-chic]

I've always thought that there were serious self-esteem issues involved for these women, or issues of abuse in their own lives, or simply that for the first time in their lives they felt "in charge" of a relationship. In the first case, the teacher in question admits to seeing her students "as peers." That's dangerous for any number of reasons, and might suggest that simply having a B.A. and a teaching certificate is not enough for teachers, whatever the unions might have to say about it!! On a level, I knwo what this is like: I teach college (I am 30), but I have siblings the ages of my students (and younger). So my interaction with the students comes more naturally on a level--albeit with that "older sibling" tinge. The important thing is not to let the way you relate to the students degenerate into a situation in which one loses sight of one's authoritative position. Clearly, teacher #1 did this; clearly, she was not mature enough psychologically to be in a teaching position. Teacher #2 does not reveal a lot about her background, but her monologue indicates that she was likely one who did indeed lack self-confidence, and sought to bolster her own ego by initiating the only kind of relationship she knew she could control. In order to feel like an equal (or greater) in a relationship, the woman had to control a relationship with a child. In the third case, Mary Kay Latourneau, I had heard this interview before. This is the one that baffled me the most. If what she says is true about the way she related to this student, either the student was exceptionally mature or she is emotionally or intellectually stunted in some way, or had something akin to a Florence Nightingale Syndrome. However, any way you look at it, she did not appreciate the responsibility of the position of authority that she held. If indeed this was "love," she should have at the very least exercised some restraint, but I'm not necessarily convinced. Of course, this is a phenomenon that could not have happened in the past in the same way, though there were of course older, rich women (probably women) who preyed on young men. By contrast, in past generations, older men have always had access to very much younger women through arranged marriage & such... But whatever else might be the case, this is clearly a symptom of the attitude that sexuality is a matter of taking what one wants for self-gratification rather than anything loving or more generous. Had Latourneau have exercised self-restraint and acted chastely, married the student (if she was free to do so) when he reached the age of majority, there would be nothing to talk about, would there? Instead, she relates her actions to a traffic violation!

[Jimbo]

My youth pastor growing up married his female high school student. I was shocked to find this out when he spoke about it some years later. (This was during my Protestant conversion years, before becoming Catholic.) He and she did exactly what you were saying Lit Chic. She shot him down, refused to go with him to his prom, and then married him some years later. I find the dynamic very peculiar, but it worked for them. They're now missionaries in Japan. It can happen; go figure.