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What are you as a grown ass woman getting from a 16 year old? Bizarre.
Lena Stewart, a 27-year-old agricultural science and woodworking teacher at Nixa High School in Nixa, Missouri has been charged for carving out an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old male student.

LMAO, what kind of news site is this?  The student paper for the school where it happened? >

I mean, that’s just top notch journalism. >

That’s just plane gross is what it is. >

Nah, I’d say it’s cutting edge. >

The writing could use a little polish >

You’re just saying that because they go against the grain. >

I think your delivery was a little wooden. >

Nah, it was pretty smooth. >

I'm on board with it. >

Adults can't have "relationships" with children.
The term you're looking for is statutory rape. >

Legally they can’t call it that until they’ve been proven guilty, or else the newspaper could be sued for libel after a not guilty verdict. So given the nature of their relationship and depth of it is not legally clear or proven, it must be called a relationship. 
Where people get confused in these situations is that this is not a romantic definition of relationship, it’s a legal one: the regular interaction of one person with another. You have a relationship with your barber, or your lawn guy, or the security guard at work. >

“Charged with statutory rape” isn’t opening you up for libel, saying “she is a rapist” would be >

It’s phrased the same way for male violators too. It’s an AP standards thing and seems to come up every single time there’s a news story about this. >

And it’s wrong. I’m not saying it’d be different if she was a dude >

At this point you’re just waxing philosophical >

As someone whose brain isn’t broken in that capacity, as well as someone who works with middle and high school students:
Gross. Just…absolutely fucking gross. >

I can never wrap my head around spending 10's of thousands of dollars on a college education, just to throw it all away for teenage dick. >

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.  
I've also heard that some of these teachers didn't socialize much when they were in high school and feel a compulsion to make up for lost time. >

I had a teacher like that. She didn't get to the point of porking a student but she pretty much hung out with the "cool" kids in my class and would not only allow their bullying towards me and my friends but actively participate in it too. It's like the lady was trying to make up for her shitty high school now as a teacher. >

I’ve seen that as well. It’s pathetic. >

Female High School Woodworking Teacher Charged With 6 Felonies For Rape of Male Student. >

I can be a woodworking teacher?!? I thought those jobs disappeared in the 90s >

Looks like one position just opened up! >

An open position is what got her fired. >

Also some woodworking probably. >

Came here for the woodworking jokes. >

She thought the woodworking part was a euphemism. >

Did Quagmire write the headline? >

Considering the sentience  
"Lena Stewart, a 27-year-old agricultural science and woodworking teacher at Nixa High School in Nixa, Missouri has been charged for carving out an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old male student." 
is in the article yes you would be correct >

Can journalists stop calling this a relationship. >

It was an ongoing series of communications and interactions, not just a single event, so the word "relationship" makes sense in context. >

Funny, I tend to think of "relationships" as consensual. >

You're thinking of romantic relationships.   A parent-child relationship, for example, exists without the consent of the child. >

"Lena Stewart, a 27-year-old agricultural science and woodworking teacher at Nixa High School in Nixa, Missouri has been charged for carving out an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old male student."
That's a punny lede. >

Not that knewz is the most trusted news site or anything, but maybe an article about rape isn't the best time to throw in a witty play on words. >

Thats probably why they went with the woodworking / carving headline rather than the agsci / plowing option. >

Notice the wording.
"intimate relationship"
No, it was rape. >

Thank you why the fuck do people not use the correct wording for this stuff.
She's a rapist. >

The article says she is accused of one count of statutory rape. 
She is not a rapist until she is found guilty. >

To be fair they have every opportunity to call her an alleged rapist >

You'll note that there were no drag shows involved in this incident of grooming. >

Rape.
Sex with a minor is rape, regardless of the rapist's gender. Stop trying to use soft language to hide the fact that an adult raped a child. >

It wasn’t a “relationship”, she raped him, we shouldn’t have to make that correction >

The article itself even states that the victim felt pressured to continue because he was worried stopping would affect his grade.
If someone feels pressure to have sex, that's rape. >

also in what world does your woodshop grade matter enough to .... well to do anything? >

Your GPA for scholarships and admissions. There may also be woodworking specific scholarships they want to get. >

My Uncle was raped as a 15 YO by a teacher in her 30's.
Obviously not every case is, but it messed him up for life. Unlike women who probably live with physical fear for the rest of their lives, he didn't because his a 6'2 male. But he never had a normal relationship after as he felt women only wanted him for one thing and it turned him toxic. He's a good looking guy but turned into an incel type, but one that sleeps with a lot of women, not sure how to describe it.
Thought all women where who*es, and  worthless. He basically trusts no one because he told some males he respected as when it was happening and they all were happy for him. >

Years ago, when I first started using reddit, I remember reading a comment by someone who had a long term sexual relationship with a grown woman when he was 14. He described how it was a great relationship and how it wasn't bad at all. In fact, it was so good that ever since he aged out of her attraction window and she broke things off he just can't form relationships with girls his age. After years he was still not able to have a meaningful relationship with a girl his own age because no one will ever be able to live up to his previous experience.
He just couldn't see how an inappropriate relationship when he was young completely warped his expectations on what one should be like. He was well into his 20s and hadn't had another "girlfriend" since his abuser. >

Thats like video games. I don't want to play the games I played when I was 14. I want playing games to make me feel the way I felt when I played them at 14. Which wont happen unfortunately. >

My kid goes to school here. Apparently all the students have known about it for months. >

My woodworking teacher was a fat hairy dude who wore Coke bottoms for glasses and soft soled shoes that squeaked when he walked.
go figure. >

Was he a good kisser? >

Mouth was dry always tasted like alder after class >

Can a rapist have a “relationship” with her victim? Good grief. >

I expect reddit comments to make puns about a statutory rape case, but not news articles. >

High School Woodworking Teacher Rapes Student; Charged With 6 Felonies.
Fixed your headline. >

RAPE...the word you are looking for is RAPE... >

That’s not a relationship, that’s rape. >

Sure there will be some people congratulating the guy for "living the dream" making it with the teacher. But honestly this is just as problematic and disturbing as it would be with the genders reversed. >

"Genders reversed" is a very stupid and antiquated example moral nonsense. There are, always has been, and always will be gender differences. Period. Some bad, some "understandable", but things will never be exactly the same for both genders in any facet of life. >


"Genders reversed" is a very stupid and antiquated example moral nonsense. There are, always has been, and always will be gender differences. Period. Some bad, some "understandable", but things will never be exactly the same for both genders in any facet of life.

Can you very specifically define for me how any gender raping a child is an example of antiquated moral nonsense? >

Big Oof my guy. You either deliberately misunderstood or unintentionally didn't understand my post. >

Woman gets 6 felony charges for raping her student. FTFY. >


has been charged for carving out an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old male student.

Pretty tasteless and insensitive to use puns when the matter is so sensitive/serious. Also, calling it a relationship. Fuck you, KNEWZ. >

Can we not call it a relationship? She raped him. Flat out. >

Working the wood, getting nailed >

Rape. Not relationship. Rape. >

Putting aside the whole "woodworking" inference, pretty much low life. >

Great job prosecution. >

Half of the comments here are jokes, or people critical of jokes, or people busting aneurisms over words used by journalists.
How about this. What she did was bad, hopefully the kid gets mental health support and she gets rehabilitation in prison; end of story? >

Almost... you have to admit though,the word "Rape: has an impact and the way the article dances around using it is very telling.
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We'll see if she gets a prison sentence that matches what would be handed down if the genders were reversed. Petty to bring it up but still a valid point. >

This was the incorrect topic /error >

Once she's incarcerated and inside a prison, I wonder how many pen pals she's gonna have. >

So shes woodworking and working wood all in the classroom?
I dont even get what would be attractive about a high school kid, they are all assholes and just plain fucking stupid. Not to mention jobless, and that's on top of it being a fucking crime and that's not even touching the moral dilemma of the situation... >

I wonder, was it his broccoli haircut? His Jordan’s? Did he say “on god” when she asked if he loved her? >

Anyone else go to the article just to see how attractive she was? It's just a morbid curiosity because there are these women who do this who are drop dead gorgeous and could land any guy but something is twisted in their heads to target kids... I mean... if you have that affliction, avoid being a teacher.
I did and not a great photo of her but she isn't bad looking. But really, who's mugshots are that attractive? >

She is attractive. But this is not about her not being able to find a date her age. 
It is about her wanting to have sex with a child. >

That’s my point. I look at some of the guys on to catch a predator who have 0 social skills and are creepy all around, they may think that’s all they can get. It’s still creepy and wrong, but more just pathetic and sad. With this woman she absolutely could get sex with little issue but chooses to go after children, even worse, her own students.
That turns it from sad to disgusting. >

Lol people up in here making jokes about a rape. >

Yeah, it's pretty disgraceful. This is one of those reasons why male rape is not taken seriously.
She is a predator. >

Always curious how consistently when it's a adult women and child you often find titles avoiding the word rape or statutory rape and instead stuff like relationship. Like is it being dismissive of women being as capable of being predators, dismissing male minors can be taken advantage of. 
Maybe it's just a difference of it being "what the male teacher slept with his student, what a freak" compared to "hot damn when I was a kid there was this hot teacher,  niiiiiiice kid!" When they should be regarded the same way. >

It’s not a relationship, it’s an adult taking advantage of a child they’re charged with teaching and it just gets into worse territory from there.
But, am I the only one shocked the woman who teaches shop was into boys?
There, it’s a Reddit post covering all the bases. >


But, am I the only one shocked the woman who teaches shop was into boys?

Are you suggesting women shop teachers can only be homosexual? >

They are suggesting that it is not very common for a female shop teacher to be straight. Maybe they missed the woodworking part. Lots of women into woodworking. >

The most shocking aspect of this story is a straight female woodworking teacher exists! >

It's nice to see that young women in that school can have stereotype-breaking role models—er, never mind. >

Nice. Nice. >

This is the first time I've encountered "Knewz."  Allowing the use of that "carving" pun in the headline would've gotten any editor at a respectable outlet fired.  So now I know what this source is all about without having to look into it further.
Imagine if it were a male teacher and female high school student with that headline instead.
Sick people, all around. >

Damn it gets so fucking old when male teacher with female student is called RAPE which is what it is, and this is called “relationship” >

Rapist pedo. This is actually super common in high schools too. Every high school has at least one pedo at any given time. >

On one hand, this is horrible.
On the other hand, this is a perfect setup for all the woodworking jokes... >

Well I read that the boy got an A in wood >

Or a wood in A? >

Uhhh, so at first it was mutual.... then not?  
Then the student was worried about his grade in woodworking.   Seriously, its an elective, who in the hell is worried about a grade in woodshop?!?!?!    
She isn't ugly, and I get this feeling like while she may have manipulated his way to having sex, she isn't ugly, and 16 year old boys aren't picky.    
I'll get downvoted like hell, but I remember being 16, and I have a hard time thinking there is a real victim here, maybe, but not enough in the article.  Punish the shit out of her, sure, but she is hardly a danger to the public.  
Though I am curious about how her missing fingers (because don't all woodshop teachers have a few missing?) made a difference.  
Hell, 16 is legal in many states, so she is 100% guilty of abuse of her position and stuff, and if this was reversed and the teacher male he'd probably get executed (sarcasm), but there are acceptable double standards in America and if he was 18 and she 29, or 79, nobody would care. >

Yeah, the real problem's the relationship involved. I do recall being 14-16 and having one or two very hot young new teachers we certainly would've felt pretty bloody proud about. We'd be hypocrites at best to pretend we didn't think "totally would"; as if our standards were even half that high.

And not just the boys either; the way some middle and high school girls described some male teachers could be mistaken for a sale at the butcher's.

But purely physical interests aren't the problem. A fling would probably not end up on the news, but a relationship is where some nasty little power dynamics and inequality get all involved. The control. The same sort of trust and authority differences that we so often see in other abusive relationships.
That's where it all goes horribly wrong and brain-scarring for many kids. You don't start dating a student a decade younger than you are unless you've got some real baggage up there or something's wired wrong... and a 16 year old is rarely ready to lift that fucked suitcase. >

Female teacher with male student: Relationship.
Male teacher with female student: Rape.
The media is so screwed up. >

Not even close to true. Here's just one example of many:
Former Oak Park High School teacher under investigation for alleged sexual relationship with student

KSHB 41 News is not naming the male teacher because he's not been formally charged. >

Nice.
(I hope some people are going to get the reference of this joke and it's indeed not nice) >

She would probably get off with a lighter sentence than a man would. >

Ladies, don't prey on teenaged boys; they will brag about it. >

Also, don't prey on teenage boys because they're children. >

She was working their wood.
She is a rapist >

Man gotta love they always say "relationship" when the victim is a male. >

"27 year-old male woodworking teacher charged with grooming 16 year old girl, carving out that pussy"
Yeah , I guess the puns wouldn't fly if it was a male teacher. >

You are exactly right. The rape of a 16 year old child is still rape. It’s disgusting that this, and other cases like this, are treated with innuendo and minimisation. >

She’ll get off. Women don’t face the same time as males do when this happens. Plus people tend to blow this off or even make jokes about it. >

Well I would hope she got off, otherwise all those felonies hardly seem worth it. >

"Female teacher, Male student"
Well, does it really matter what gender either party is? I say it does NOT! >

She was working wood alright >

Obviously she likes wood. >

Wood shop - I haven’t seen that taught in high school in 40 years! (US west coast) >

Honestly, that was my first reaction too.   When did woodshop make a comeback?    By the time my youngest brother graduated back in the 90’s, the only tools students could use were sandpaper and glue… >

Lucky kid, wish I had a teacher woodworkin my dick in high school >

Please do. 
Making jokes over rape isn’t funny. >

I was about to say they didn't include a photo of the teacher finally, but they did. >

Woodworking….hahahahaha! >

Statutory rape does not consider consent since minors aren't legally capable of consenting. >

You don't know that, since it didn't happen to you.  There are plenty of examples of young boys permanently damaged by such a "relationship" if you care to look (which I know you don't). >

College fraternity members aren't minors.