Comments on: In Britain today: teacher (woman), 26, has sex with pupil (boy), 16, and ends up in court and on the BBC https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: thehappyone https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1721585 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:42:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1721585 People who are in their 40s and early 50s today also had to contend with all the difficulties of life in Socialist 1970s and 1980s Malta. If that is not enough to make you mature quickly, nothing is.

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1720143 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:53:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1720143 In reply to Please note.

And, here in Malta, anything deviant is taken as normal, like nerdy schoolchildren who think they have suddenly become “cool”.

]]> By: Manuel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1717854 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:48:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1717854 “The relationship, albeit conducted as if between equals, was not a relationship between equals. You were older, you were his teacher and you should at all times have known better.”

This is exactly the point missed by all the Tanti-fans, Times of Malta and Malta-cum-Star-Today when the case was on the news after the 19th of March.

]]> By: observer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1717512 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:49:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1717512 Tanti’s drama lessons have turned into a real-life tragedy.

]]> By: Anthony Grima https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1716552 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:22:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1716552 In reply to Anthony Grima.

And one of the best comments about this article is:

“smartbart, Edinburgh, 12 hours ago
We used to spend our time trying to make teachers cry than sleep with them – how times have changed…”

]]> By: Anthony Grima https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1716532 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:18:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1716532 Unbelievable – “She walked free at Bristol Crown Court today with a suspended sentence”! How can the courts be this ‘soft’ when pupils are involved?!

No wonder these ‘infatuated’ teachers are not afraid of having these sort of relationships with their pupils! Most probably, Erin the douchebag was thinking the same! What a shame!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2598934/Infatuated-woman-teacher-26-took-16-year-old-pupil-hotel-break-sex-school-training-weekend.html

]]> By: Claude sciberras https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1716197 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:40:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1716197 You know what the problem is? Our children are growing up fast and at that age we still think of them as children but they are themselves as adults.

Couple this with values and decency going down the drain and you will end up with these situations.

I’m not saying this is something new probably has been happening always but nowadays we don’t get very scandalized any more hence the reaction of many to our local teacher scandal.

Apart from the fact that today’s teachers have a very different relationship with children and in most cases this is for the better but in some cases, as we are seeing, not.

[Daphne – Actually, children don’t grow up fast enough nowadays. Going on the available evidence, 15-year-olds today are still really immature and childish. We were a lot more grown-up. I think it’s directly linked to the fact that children have absolutely no freedom and independence now. They’re forever in the presence of adults, being monitored, helped, policed, transported around by mothers with cars (unheard of in our day; mothers didn’t drive and families mainly had the one car anyway) and generally kept dependent for as long as possible. I often think that it must really be hell to a child or teenager nowadays, forever with adults breathing down your neck. How do you grow in a situation like that? How do you develop confidence and a sense of self? You can’t.]

]]> By: David https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1716186 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:35:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1716186 She did not go to jail. Do you agree with this?

[Daphne -No.]

]]> By: Chris Ripard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1716115 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:02:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1716115 Light(er) sentence for a woman . . . as usual

]]> By: Please note https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/in-britain-today-teacher-woman-26-has-sex-with-pupil-boy-16-and-ends-up-in-court-and-on-the-bbc/#comment-1715976 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:11:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45812#comment-1715976 Judge Euan Ambrose told her: “You are a picture of misery in this courtroom.

“The relationship, albeit conducted as if between equals, was not a relationship between equals. You were older, you were his teacher and you should at all times have known better.”

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When staff at the school noticed how close the relationship had become they informed the head teacher who challenged Burgess.

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