Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Time To Leave Letourneau Alone?

Pink Floyd made the song, "All We Are Is Just Another Brick in the Wall" very popular. The song said, "teacher, leave those kids alone."  Made sense at the time.  But now maybe it's time to leave some of the teachers alone. After all, people get in trouble for suspended drivers licenses all the time without making headline news, even in Seattle.

To be fair, Legal Pub has taken its shot at a few educators. Bad JudgmentTeacher Trouble. But maybe it is time to give some of the teacher's a break.  Unfortunately for former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, every misstep she makes is potential headline material.   As you may recall, Letouneau was the former teacher who was arrested after she had sex with a 12-year-old student.  This Burien teacher's photo was plastered in the media back in the 1990s when she was convicted of raping a sixth-grade boy. Letouneau was 34 at the time. She served a prison sentence and then married her former student, Vili Fualaau in 2005 when he was 22.

Now the former teacher reportedly was booked into the King County Jail early Monday for failing to appear in court for a suspended driver's license.  Bail was reportedly set at $5,000.


Letourneau did her time.  She even married the "victim."  Isn't it time for the media to leave her alone?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

She is still good looking and that is what makes the whole thing a mystery. In other words, she was not some desperate woman in need of attention. I believe she was married with kids at the time she "fell in love" with the student.

~Jay said...

What is a math teacher’s favorite sum?
Summer!

Big C said...

Jay, I can only speak about my own expeience with school. It was my observation that teachers who take class attendance are absent-minded.

Back at ya,

Big C

David said...

Can any one play this game? Boys when I was in school the teacher and I had a problem communicating with one another. I remember second grade like it was yesterday. Miss Crabtree (teacher): "David, you know you can't sleep in my class."

David (me): "I know. But maybe if you were just a little quieter, I could."

~Jay said...


Perhaps I am showing my age and I need to get out of this racket because I remember Miss Johnson stressing the importance of vocabulary. Miss Johnson told us that if we use a word ten times, it shall be ours for life.

Well right then and there I started chanting Farrah, Farrah, Farrah, Farrah, Farrah, Farrah...

Unfortunately, the lesson plan was a complete disaster as Farrah Fossett was never mine.

David L said...

That's nothing Jay. I remember arguing with my teacher about my grade. I flat out told the battle axe that I didn't deserve a zero on my vocabulary test.
The teacher admitted that she agreed, but added that was the lowest mark she could give me!

Only argument that I have ever won with a woman.

Big C said...

Get back to the topic. Teachers need to be forgiven because they deserve a lot of credit. Of course, if we paid them more, they could afford to charge the bill for adult companionship at an escort service.

~Jay said...

Ouch that was bad and uncalled for. Teachers have superior knowledgd and understand that the longest sentence in the English language is "life imprisonment!"

Anonymous said...

Call it a draw guys...