Review: Beneath the Surface
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2013
It is always intriguing to hear the details of a female teacher becoming sexually involved with one of her young students. Especially if the student is shockingly young or the teacher especially attractive.Yet this short book helps us see below the shocking details. The women teachers are often: emotionally immature, depressed, lonely, with evidence of abuse or neglect in their own childhoods. They often believe they have found an extraordinary, perfect, powerful love-- even if she is middle aged and her lover, ten. Circumstances quite different from the male teacher who is sexually active with a student.Punishments have been less severe for the convicted female teacher. And rightly so, in my opinion. Still, the devastating effects on children can not be pushed aside. They are often devastating and far-reaching. A sad result for all.