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Stereotypes govern cases of female teachers having sex with male students

Erinn Connor, Virginia Rohan The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 2:41pm

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- The hot teacher and the lusty student -- this duo has been a staple of high school movies, music videos and male fantasies for decades.

Such taboo sexual relationships are often portrayed with a wink. Yes, it's wrong, but ... if a seemingly unattainable woman is attracted to her teenage admirer, where's the harm in that? He made a conquest. Got lucky. And maybe even learned some valuable lessons. Wink, wink.

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Outbreak of teacher sexual misconduct cases

Hannan Adely, Marlene Nannes, Matthew Malysa The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 6:44am

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Clifton High School history teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old is the latest in a crop of teachers to be arrested for sexual offenses involving students, including a Wood-Ridge teacher and coach charged as recently as last week.

Kristin Leone, 26, was arrested Monday evening for allegedly having sexual contact with a student in two encounters in April, including one on school grounds.

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Teacher-student relationship raises host of ethical questions

Nan Austin Modesto Bee

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 4:10pm

MODESTO, Calif. -- A teacher's romantic relationship with a student, even one who is legally an adult, raises thorny issues of morality, accountability and ethics.

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Story of teacher-student romance goes national

Nan Austin Modesto Bee

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 9:56am

MODESTO, Calif. -- The Modesto, Calif., teacher-student couple who revealed their romance this week now must cope with national celebrity.

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Parent Maria Guadalupe Garcia holds a sign reading in Spanish: " We don't want new teachers," as some parents protest replacing the staff outside the Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Allegations of teacher lewd behavior comes as school district administrators move to replace the entire staff at Miramonte Elementary School while the Los Angeles Unified School District investigates two teachers arrested last week. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

LA school in sex abuse case gets entire new staff

Christina Hoag, Greg Risling The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:18am

LOS ANGELES -- An entirely new staff of teachers will greet students Thursday at an elementary school rocked last week by the arrests of two longtime teachers on lewdness charges.

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With portraits of school children behind him, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy takes his seat following a closed-door meeting of the Board of Education in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Prosecutors have filed a lewd-acts complaint against the second of two teachers removed from a Los Angeles-area elementary school, and the Board voted to fire him in the closed-door meeting. On Monday night Deasy said that more than 120 staff members at Miramonte Elementary School — everyone from the principal and teachers to the cafeteria workers — were being replaced because a full investigation of the allegations will be disruptive and staffers will require support to get through the scandal. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Distrubing letters from teacher's aide to pupil being investigated

Dalina Castellanos, Howard Blume Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 11:28am

LOS ANGELES -- In June 2009, the mother of a fourth-grader made a discovery that is now the latest incident under investigation at Miramonte Elementary School: a teacher's aide was allegedly writing love letters to her 11-year-old son.

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