Stacy Schuler sentenced to four years.
 Huffington Post (excerpts):  A high school teacher was convicted Thursday of having sex with five students, some of them football players, after a judge rejected an insanity defense that argued the teens took advantage of her.  Stacy Schuler was sentenced to a total of four years in prison for the encounters with the Mason High School students at her home in Springboro in southwest Ohio in 2010.  She can ask a judge to free her from prison after six months.  The 33-year-old Schuler, who could have faced decades in prison, cried as she was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.  The five teens testified that Schuler, a health and gym teacher, had been drinking alcohol at the time of the encounters and was a willing participant who initiated much of the contact.  The teens were about 17 at the time.  The age of consent in Ohio is 16, but it's illegal for a teacher to have sex with a student.  "This is a noble profession that you have and I have heard a lot of good things about you, but I know that you had the opportunity, as all teachers do, to affect the lives of our children," Warren County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler said.  "You crossed a line."  Schuler's lawyers argued that she had medical and psychological issues and couldn't remember the encounters.  Before sentencing Schuler on 16 counts of sexual battery and three counts of providing alcohol to a minor, the judge said it would be a "magnificent leap" to believe she didn't know her actions were wrong.  Schuler didn't testify during the four-day nonjury trial and she and her attorneys declined to address the judge before he sentenced her; but parents of two of the teen victims made tearful statements.  A father spoke of his son's depression and lost motivation and said the teen almost didn't go to college.  He asked the judge to hand down a sentence to send a message that Schuler's acts are not acceptable and there are serious consequences.  

Commentary:  I have a been a long time proponent of home education simply because God instructed parents to teach their children in the admonition of the Lord, "You shall teach them (God's commandments) diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up" Deuteronomy 6:7 (the entire 6th chapter focuses on teaching your children, and there are many other scriptures in the Bible relating to this).  I thought I would look up the Mary Kay Letourneao story to strengthen my point here, but what I found during my search stunned me.  I found a page on WorldNetDaily (wnd.com) with an extremely long list of women who were convicted of illegal sex acts with their students.  The list was so long, I didn't want to count them.  These are women convicted in only recent years; the list doesn't include male teachers.  These women were convicted of single and multiple sex acts with students ranging from ages 10 - 17!  Some of the teachers had encounters with a boy, multiple boys, or even a girl or multiple girls!  One had sex with a disabled child!  I didn't even read a fraction of the indictments, but I noted that two, whose charges I did read, were teaching in "Christian" schools!  If this disgusts you and you still have school-aged children, I would like to invite you to read the Home Education page of this site for more information on how you can home school your children.  * You are not required by law to have teaching credentials, at least in California; I am unsure of other states.  You can find out about the laws in your state through the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), whose link is included on  the Home Education page.   

I really wanted to include the WorldNetDaily article with this post, but it is way too long.  If you are interested in even glancing at the magnitude of this problem throughout the US and the world today among female teachers alone, click on this link:  WorldNetDaily