Sarah Dickerson is 25 years old, and she was a teacher at U-High in Illinois. She’s charged with five counts of criminal sexual assault:

Dickerson resigned as a teacher at U-High last month.

Yoder said Dickerson and a male student began exchanging e-mail and text messages early in the spring semester. As the correspondence advanced, she invited him to her apartment in the Twin Cities and a sexual relationship developed.

Yoder said the student told authorities he had sex with her on at least seven occasions.

I have a theory that teachers must try to break these relationships off, and then the kids get pissed off and want revenge. I can’t understand otherwise why kids would constantly be turning in their teachers for this sort of thing.

And that’s not an endorsement of what’s going on, I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, I just can’t see teenaged boys running to the authorities because their teacher slept with them.

This theory doesn’t take into account the teachers who get themselves into compromising positions (by attending certain parties, drinking with minors, etc.) and then get blackmailed/ratted out by kids who don’t like them. I think you’re foolish if you think that doesn’t happen. Kids know how much bad publicity one of these claims bring, whether it’s true or not.

But the teachers who really are sleeping with the kid must try to “break up” with them, and most people know that teenage relationships don’t usually end well.