I am going to give you a headline, and let’s see how you read it at first sight:
Teacher’s plea deal for sex with boy rejected
Hmm. A teacher whose plea deal was to have sex with a boy was rejected. Obviously. Wouldn’t community service or something be more appropriate? Oh, the plea deal for the teacher who was convicted of having sex with a boy was rejected. Ah, I see. That’s a little different.
I would be remiss if I did not provide a link to the article with this headline. It turns out the online headline is different. The headline I quoted above was from CNN’s RSS feed. It was enough to draw me in. Maybe that was the point.
You have it all wrong. The teacher was making a plea deal with the boy to have sex with him. Maybe she was offering to raise his grades in exchange for sex. But I’m not aware that any guy has ever rejected a deal like that. I know I haven’t.
Comment by gv — December 8, 2005 @ 8:46 pm
In fact, with some ingenuity, we may be able to prove that it is biologically impossible for any man to reject such a proposal. I mean, just think about it. You’re getting sex…for free…and you’re getting better grades at the same time. I believe this is the exact arrangement you would find if looking in the dictionary under “win-win”.
Comment by jjk — December 8, 2005 @ 10:07 pm