[toomuchtodo]

> I really doubt any self respecting 30 year old woman with a great job is going to find, say, a highschool jock attractive.

I'm interested in your explanation as to why so many female teachers have sex with their teenage students then.

[WallWextra]

It is not many. Definitely not "so many."

[toomuchtodo]

"Quite a few"

[csallen]

You're probably being downvoted because you're coming off as someone who saw a handful of stories in the news and concluded "this happens often" without ever looking at the denominator.

[toomuchtodo]

That's fine, if I cared about downvotes I wouldn't frequent Hacker News. I'm happy to state my opinion, and others are free to judge those comments with up or down votes (or replies). That's how discourse works. I'm just happy to have the chance to participate in discussions with my fellow humans.

[DanBC]

paraphilias exist; you're ttalking about rare events; those women are often in their 20s.

[toomuchtodo]

Teacher student relationships have spiked [1] with a third of the perpetrators being female (up from only 4% a decade ago [2]). A quick glance at the cases showed the female teachers in their 30s, but I'm digging more to get the age distribution from case datasets.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/20/...

[2] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/why-are-so-many-fema...

[DanBC]

> In 2014 alone, there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of sexual relationships with students. My firm, Drive West Communications, has been tracking news reports of sexual misconduct by educators for more than a year. Every week has brought news of 15 young people, on average, who were sexually victimized by the educators entrusted with protecting them. That’s an abhorrent rate and a trend that deserves far more attention from school leaders and policy makers.

In a country with 73 million children, and roughly 3.2 million full time equivalent teachers. That's pretty much the definition of a rare event.

In general, any increase in numbers should be regarded as better reporting and better recording of crime, rather than an increase in that crime.

Female teacher on male student sexual crime has only recently been taken seriously (and it's still got some way to go to reach parity in perception with male teacher on female student sexual crime), so I'd expect reporting and recording of this crime to be changing.

You've posted two links, but one refers to the other.

> In 2014, Abbott said, two-thirds of reported teacher-related sexual misconduct cases with students involved men; that means one-third of the cases involved female teachers.

Does it? Or does it mean the sex of the offender isn't always collected?

I can't seem to find his data anywhere.