This may sound like a crazy idea (stop the snickering), but we suggest that we legalize sex between female teachers and their young male charges.
We've written extensively about such couplings, and now we can add a case from California.
We suggest legalization for a very simple reason: We'll never stop this epidemic. We can only hope to control it with education and tolerance.
As for the case in California:
According to a reliable source (some Web site somewhere with a classy layout), former middle school teacher Jamie Renee Putnam is charged with two counts of lewd acts with a child, one count of unlawful sexual intercourse, eight counts of furnishing marijuana to minors, 11 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one count of possessing marijuana on school grounds.
She allegedly had groups of boys over for pot-and-sex parties.
Hold on, now. We're not advocating the use of marijuana as a teaching tool. We've been told it causes memory lapses.
No, what we are advocating is... Uh, where were we?
Oh, yes. John Edwards.
Johnny dropped us a line today, or yesterday. We forget.
He had some very nice things to say to and about us. We hope he wins whatever he is running for.
But about that teacher-student sex thing.
Forget it. We must have been high even to suggest such a thing.

Posted at July 29, 2004 01:13 PM