There can be a sexual assault between clothed individuals. It depends on the wording of the offence.
You missed my point entirely. Not that it’s worth repeating to you, of course.
But if that kid didn’t feel like he was being sexually violated by an authority figure in front of his peers, some intensive psychiatric counseling should fix that right quick. //rolleyes//
Since neither of you read the OP, let me spell it out for you:
Grinding on a child, shoving her head between his legs, and rubbing his body. That’s sexual assault, by the teacher, on a child in the middle of class.
Sexual assault is not some made up thing that psychiatrists trick people into feeling bad about. People who want to dismiss this because - hey, boys love that sort of thing! - should be ashamed of themselves.
Holy Crap! That is so bizarre that someone needs to test her for a brain tumor or early Alzheimer’s.
Not more common, it’s just that we have these things called “Cable TV” & “Internet” & “going viral” which makes them disseminated to a wider audience.
(I’ll get off your lawn now. :p)
So you’re saying this future adult should be made to feel ashamed? Gotcha, okay.
And to answer your next question, yes, I’d react completely the opposite if the teacher were some male P.E. coach, instead of a sexy babe who still looks mighty hot at age 40. 
No, I’m saying, the current adult teacher should be arrested.
I’m also saying that what that teacher did was wrong and she should feel bad about it. She is the one making the child feel bad - not the actual responsible adults condemning her for it.
I’m saying that attempting to shift the blame to the boy’s defenders for making him feel bad is the sort of thing that rapists say.
And I’m saying that other adults who think it’s acceptable to sexually assault boys, because they claim that boys enjoy it, are disgusting and contributing to the problem.
I guess it would depend a lot on what state it happened in.
A state of arousal?
Thinking of the battle-ax who taught second grade, I am tremendously grateful that such a thing would never have occurred to her.*
*I am still scarred from her having thrown me out of class for reading ahead in the Dick and Jane book.
“Once the kid sat down, the fortysomething teacher gave him what was perhaps his first full-contact lap dance.”
Perhaps???
Like **Spiderman **says, when we hear a lot more about these things these days it’s partly just more reporting. In this age, not only are there more ways to record and share evidence, but we also have raised a generation with no hesitation to record and share to begin with. In my time whenever we were doing something improper (mind you, strictly among kids of comparable ages), we damn sure did not record it!!
AND, in a more positive sense, there is also the factor that people do not submit as willingly to “codes of silence.”
Hey, ya never know with kids these days…
But, yeah, Bad Judgment’s Greatest Hits 2014 already needs a whole album side for this one. This is far afield enough to make me think **Zulema **may have a point about checking if something has gone neurologically wrong. I mean, really…
More selected quotes:
*“The student admitted that he slapped Ms. Smith on the buttocks a few times. At the end of the dance, Ms. Smith wrapped her arms around the student and he gave her bottom another squeeze.” *
…oookay, let’s say that the young man must have learned from the net and rap videos as to what is expected from his side, or else got a quick runthrough from the classmates.
“…she gave the youngster a lap dance at the urging of his classmates.” * 
Huh? What?? What if the classmates wanted her to buy him a sixpack of Coors? :rolleyes: Way to go, classmates.
Whatever penalty she gets, it wont be as bad as what would have happened if a male teacher had done this to a female student.
For sure. The double standard is alive and well. See this very thread for examples.
Or if a male teacher had done this to a male student.
Their certainly is a double standard and we as a society need to recognize that females can be just as much sexual predators as males.
As a parent sometimes after school I’d be standing around waiting for my sons to come out. You’d be surprised at some of the comments the Mom’s standing around me would make of the young boys. Comments that if a man said them would get them beat up or arrested. Saying certain boys are handsome, have cute butts, or they could show them some things, and giving them “friendly” hugs.
Even in this thread there’s a minimizing of the incident, but I’d wonder if it’d had been make teacher on a girl if those posters would be thinking how funny it was.
Heaven forbid that any child should ever be given a friendly hug! :eek:
Fortunately we have people like Merneith around who will not rest until such things are routinely punished with the full weight of the law, because obviously there is a clear bright line here.:rolleyes:
I sure hope that’s a woosh, because if decrying and calling to abolish friendly hugs is really what you took from that post, perhaps you need to read the whole thing again.
Or if it had been those posters’ son.