Another female teacher incident
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Doesn't matter is she is or not, teachers catch enough crap the way it is, why add to it, by being a pervert. People like her makes the profession just all that more difficult, and we all know that being a female, the judge will go easier on her. Until we start sentencing people that sleeps with kids to 20/30 mandatory sentences instead of letting them out after a few years, this is not going to stop.
It is never going to stop. Long sentences as a deterrent only go so far. Anyone who does something like this or even the guy who murdered/attempted to murder lawmakers in MN wasn't disuaded by life in prison - because they all think, "They are stupid but I am smart and I'll get away with it." If you are convinced you are going to get away with it the sentence you might face really doesn't matter.
I am not disagreeing with long sentences, just the idea that they will make it stop.
I think a lot of people also even subconsciously just don't care enough about their own life for whatever reason to worry about the accountability as long as they can pull others into their own circle of dysfunction.
What is the alternative, go back to the old days, where everything was kept in house, the teacher was just let go, to then go on and do it at another school. Long prison sentences is basically the only tool the state has to slow it down, you can never 100% stop it, but as an educator, if you know that you will be going to jail for say a minimum of 20 years, and keep reminding them of that at the start of every year, it would only help.
As I said in the post you quoted:
"I am not disagreeing with long sentences, just the idea that they will make it stop."
It may discourage some, but it is naive to think that it will make it stop. There were draconian punishments that included all manner of grisly torture throughout history and crime still happened. It can disuade but it isn't going to eliminate.
No you are never going to eliminate it, there are sick people out there, but if it stops one person than its worth it. These people have committed a crime and broke the trust of those that they are suppose to be helping. Sorry I do not feel a bit sorry for them.
This idea that passing a law that does not eliminate a behavior 100% is a flawed way of thinking about a subject, no law is every going to achieve that. You lay it out there, inform them of the law and if they break it, you hammer them and make an example to maybe stop the next person.
Dude can you read? I said I wasn't against it twice now. I just was challenging you saying that would stop it. That is naive.
What is also flawed thinking is saying that draconian sentences are going to stop it. That is what you implied in the post I initially responded to. "Until we start sentencing people that sleeps with kids to 20/30 mandatory sentences instead of letting them out after a few years, this is not going to stop."
I'm glad to see that you now say exactly what I was saying - no law is going to eradicate it. That was what I was saying and you finally acknowledge that. Thanks.
Good to know we are on the same page. This idea that by passing a law will eradicate a behavior is setting the bar a little high. I really wish it was that simple, but it's not, we know that, but you still fall back on its not going to stop it. No kidding, what is the alternative, let them do it and walk away? Throw them in jail and throw away the key, make an example out of them, and if that is not good enough and someone else does it, do the same to them. Just maybe you can save the 2nd or 3rd kid that they would have messed around with if you had jailed them the first time for 20 years or so.
