I've just heard this on the radio.
If a teacher has sex with a pupil they lose their job and go on the sex offenders register.
This includes pupils up to the age of 18.
If the teacher picks up an 18 year old at a club and has sex this is not illegal.
Can this be right?
I think that is right, a teacher has a responsibly to their students a person they could turn to if needed, for advice. This trust could be abused I believe. Whereby when a teacher is out at a night club they are just like the rest of us just another member of the public and should be treated that way.
This is just my opinion.
I can see what people are saying about a duty of care but the sex offenders register??????
Isn't that a bit extreme?
Urinating in public gets you on the register?????
I defy any man here to say he hasn't had a crafty piss in a public place.
This is crazy
This is an artical I found FB.
The person that said it was a high ranking union official, NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates
Chris Keates of the NASUWT said:
"But it does seem a step too far, when there has been a consensual relationship, to put that person on the sex offenders register when, in fact, they could have a perfectly legitimate relationship with an 18-year-old at another school."
What she said was that they shouldn't go on the sex offenders register. I'm inclined to agree - either put any teacher having a sexual relationship with anyone under 18 on the register, or none at all. What's the difference if they are/aren't at the school you teach in? If it's abuse yes, but not if it's consensual.
With regard to the male pupil, sorry but he probably bragged to all his mates about it and then changed his stance to 'poor me, I lost a piece of my childhood', when he got caught out. He was supposedly 'seduced' but they then had an affair? Why was that any more likely to ruin his life than if he'd met someone older when out? I had a relationship with a 34-year old man when I was 16. Wouldn't have made any difference if he'd been a teacher.
The thing is, what happens if the teacher has sex with the pupil, and the teacher ends up on the sex offender register, BUT the relationship lasts (stranger things have happened)....the teacher has this hanging over him (I will say him, but only for the sake of not keeping on typing him/her all the time.
Does that mean 'he' is labelled for the rest of their marriage/relationship/partnership as a danger to society....doesnt seem fair somehow to me.