Predatory Female Teachers Seen as Symptom of Cultural Selfishness
by Jim Brown
September 26, 2005
(AgapePress) - Yet another female public school teacher has been taken into custody on charges of sexually assaulting male students -- this time in New Jersey. Traci Tapp, a 28-year-old physical education instructor at Hammonton High School, was recently arrested for sexual crimes involving three school-aged boys.Tapp has been charged with one count of sexual assault, two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact, and three counts of official misconduct. Her case is the latest in a rash of sexual assaults involving predatory female teachers nationwide. Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says such cases reveal the extent to which contemporary culture has become one of self-gratification.
"These teachers obviously believe that their fling with the students was worth jeopardizing the future of the students so they could obtain this illicit pleasure for awhile," Knight observes. "This is really part of the mean mentality of the new age -- that we're all entitled to whatever we want at anytime with anyone we want."
The pro-family spokesman suspects that most predatory female teachers feel they probably will not get caught. And even if they are caught, he says, they probably expect that their crime will not be viewed as a serious offense. Sadly, he fears these child predators may be right.
Knight contends that sexual assaults on underage students are not viewed as seriously when the perpetrators are female teachers. He believes the public is typically more shocked and outraged when a male teacher preys on an underage female.
"There's a double standard in seduction," the CFI spokesman notes, "and that is the idea that boys won't suffer as much or there's less at stake. Certainly they won't get pregnant, and there's sort of a 'wink-wink' mentality -- that [underage male victims] are just learning about the birds and the bees."
Of course, Knight points out, "parents who have this happen to their child don't feel that way. They know that this is a premature exposure to something that could change their [underage sons'] lives."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
