Rebecca Daniels

Rebecca Daniels, 37, is the Drama and Speech teacher at Calumet High School (Affiliated with Perspectives Charer Schools Group).  She has been arrested charged with sexual assault and abuse for alleged sexual encounters with three students of the South Side charter school where she worked.

Prosecutors claim she had sex with two students and a former student. One of the boys was 15, and the other two were 16.

The sexual contact allegedly occurred over the summer and ended mid-October.

She was arrested and is being held on $100,000 bail.

Daniels taught in Ohio prior to her position at Calumet and has been an educator for 13 years.

Kathy Miraglia is a 35 year old counselor from Lake in the Hills, Illinois. She had worked at Hillside Academy, a school for troubled youth, until being accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old male student. Her verdict came in and she received (and make sure to contast this with Debra Lafave’s fate) eight years in prision:

A former Hillside private school counselor fainted Thursday as she was sentenced to 8 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male student.

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Trial testimony showed that Miraglia was involved with the 16-year-old between February and May 2004. A second victim, who was 17 at the time, testified Thursday about his sexual relationship with the counselor.

According to trial testimony, she bought the teens alcohol and gave them money to buy marijuana, and shared both with them.

Obviously what she did is a bad thing, but wow. Eight years is a long time.

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.