fracas

Another teacher charged for having sex with a student, is making internet waves. Honestly.. at this rate I’m going to have to hire out the house painting and just sit here all day so I can post about all the teachers out there who don’t have the sense not to have sex with their students.

No sooner had I posted about Alenna but I learn about Janelle Batkins.

Batkins, 42, of Harrison Township was charged in 41B District Court in Clinton Township with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, a 15-year felony. She was released on a $25,000 personal bond.Batkins, a married mother of two who taught French for about 15 years in the district, resigned over the summer.Police and prosecutors say she had sexual contact with the 17-year-old from December 2006 until the end of the last school year.”She has not admitted to having any sexual contact” with him, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said of Batkins who turned herself in early Monday.Batkins stood mute before Judge Sebastian Lucido with her hands in cuffs. Her mother and husband were the courtroom, Assistant Prosecutor Jean Femminineo said.The 17-year-old’s mother went to Roseville police in July after finding evidence of a relationship on her son’s computer. Her son told detectives he consented to sex with Batkins in Batkins’ home and a car, police said.

A 17-year-old can give legal consent in most cases, but charges were brought because Batkins was in a position of authority over the student, Hackel said.

I’ve noticed that often, these women are in their late thirties or early forties. Fracas is 43 and can’t imagine finding a 17 year old, a 15 year old, or an 11 year old to be the object of one’s desire so it makes a person wonder if this isn’t all about what we as a society, have been pointing a finger at men for, and laughing when Joe-42-year-old-midlife-crisis-man buys a hot car and tries to pick up 18 year olds. Is this about women wanting to feel young again, wanting to feel like when they were 18 and all the boys wanted them? Is there some way we can blame van Halen and their “Hot for Teacher” video for why women out there are suddenly thinking it’s acceptable to give an 11 year old a blow job?

Because if it’s not something we can attribute to misplaced reasoning skills due to an unhealthy fascination with song lyrics or something, then I’m going to be afraid… very afraid of what’s happening to the world I brought my children into. And you know… I don’t want to be that afraid of what my own children and their children are going to have to live with as a regular part of life. I want to think there’s something we can pinpoint and figure out so we can stop this kind of garbage in its tracks and make the world a place where parents can send their kids off to school without worrying that it’s not just the creep in the trench coat waiting in the alley for them that we have to teach them about, but that we have to teach our kids how to be safe from their teachers.

I read in the comments to one of these news stories, where the reader fluffed this off to the fact that the kid was 17. They’d posted how it’s not such a big deal because all boys in school would be thrilled to get laid by the teacher, (There’s that Van Halen thing again) rationalizing that it was ok. They posed the question as to whether or not women who get caught at this should be punished as harshly as the men.

Fracas says yes.

Fracas says that she thinks that commmenter was a stupid moron. Making the ascertion that because boys want sex it’s ok for the women to abuse their trust and their positions of authority and that it’s not ok for men to do the same (because they think girls don’t want sex I assume) shows the sheer ignorance of some of the people we have to share the air with.

Throw the book at these creeps, male or female. It’s biology that makes kids going through puberty to want sex… and we, the adults are supposed to know better than to exploit them during the years they need our guidance.