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    Teachers sexting students

    If the concept of "sexting" is still new enough to you to require quotation marks, you might be more than a little shocked to learn that in at least two separate incidents this year, teachers have been sexting their students.

    According to CBS news, Melinday Dennehy, a 41-year-old English teacher at Londonderry High School in New Hampshire, sent four pictures of her exposed genitalia to a 15-year-old male student. Why a mother of two, whose livelihood relies on appropriate boundaries and parental trust, would do such a creepy, wrong-headed thing is a question that perhaps only Mary Kay LeTourneau can answer, but Dennehey is not alone. In a separate incident, NBC news reports that 36-year-old James Nelson, a teacher from Indiana, resigned after he allegedly sent sexually charged text messages to some of the school's eighth grade cheerleaders. "Something tells me ur not the goody good yur mom thinks ur. I can be tempted to play Ru tempting?" he allegedly wrote to a 14-year-old student.

    If there's a small upside to any of this, it's that both of these would-be sex offenders were actually dumb enough to digitally document their bad behavior, giving prosecutors a way to hold them accountable for their inappropriate behavior. Dennehy, released on bail, is currently being charged with a felony count of indecent exposure, while Nelson is being investigated by the police.

     

    15 comments

    • Whitney  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I'm not sure why a high school teacher would have the cell number of their students unless there was a school trip where the group might need to split up and then meet later. I have been in that situation for academic events. In college however, some teachers require students to give a contact number.
    • Jed  •  2 years 2 months ago
      "Central casting, can you please send over a female pedophile?" This woman really looks the part! Yuk.
    • incognito2010  •  2 years 2 months ago
      zombi22 your in idiot.... threatening to kill someone .. How bout be a parent and see what your child is doing.
    • mel  •  2 years 2 months ago
      that is just nasty! there is no reason a teacher should have a child's cell number at all! the parent's numbers, yes, but the child's, not at all! she should do jail time!
    • Melissa  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Ok. I've taught a freshman level college remedial course before with students who were 18 and 19 and I didn't even program their numbers into my phone! I understand why a teacher would need to be able to contact a student, but at this age level it should be THE PARENTS' phone. I kept all my students' numbers on index cards and called them for two reasons: 1) Hey there, ya missed an assignment and it's due now or 2) Um, you really need to come to class or you're gonna get an F. That's it.

      I don't care how old the students are or young you are, you don't call a student (especially ones you are currently teaching or ones that are obviously children) and shoot the breeze. That's ridiculously unprofessional, and she should be punished. I was only 25 at the time and a grad student when I was teaching my course, and I still had the presence of mind not to try to be buddies with my students.

      Integrity. This lady needs to get some.
    • Jonny  •  2 years 2 months ago
      She will get a slap on the wrist. All the female pedophiles are treated with compassion for their "illness."
    • leigh  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Yuck! I do wonder why the teachers had the kids cell phone numbers. I know I would have never given my number to a teacher.
    • starfedra  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Horrible..!! I remember when I was 14 I had a very developed body, I looked like a woman but my mental age was still in childhood, I had teachers that would look at me that way, you know, one even invited me to his house, so creepy, and gross, I was so innocent back then that can't even comprehend now as an adult how grown ups can do that to children, it does not matter if it's a man or a woman, that is just plain disgusting and absolutely wrong.
    • choo-toy  •  2 years 2 months ago
      If somebody did something like that to *my* son, I'd kill her. Forget the "justice" system.
    • Amanda  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I have seen teachers with fave students cell numbers. so close that the student gave the teacher a 'free starbucks coupon' good for one year. just text her and on her starbucks run she'd pick up an extra for the teacher. others do it so if you leave something in the classroom, they jus txt u and say hey its here. instead of calling the office. thats y teachers say they want it. thats what my homeroom teacher does.
    • visible  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I feel sorry for her kids! She needs help with her mental illness.
    • Hannah  •  2 years 2 months ago
      ew ew ew i would be soooooo creeped out, whats gone wrong with the world?
    • Hannah  •  2 years 2 months ago
      how some you all are coplaiing about the lady, hers was gross, but the guy teacher was REALLLY creepy, ew ew ew!
    • Yashira  •  2 years 2 months ago
      she so dirty for dat. grrrr i cant stand ppl lik her. grrrr yur mad old lik get ova yah self.
    • Esther  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Ew, that's just so wrong on so many levels.

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