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Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:00 AM

The double standard of student-teacher sex

An ABC News report on women who prey on teens says they're different from men who do the same. Does that make anyone else uncomfortable?

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  • Thursday, February 28, 2008 04:08 PM

    Sentence length?

    It's my unprofessional opinion that I read about male teachers being punished more severely than female teachers. My impression is that they draw about double or more, the sentence that women get in teacher/student sex cases.

    Has anybody studied this aspect?

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