I generally agree with a lot of the things you say, but I very much disagree with your assessment that school violence has lead to an increase in female teachers sleeping/having relationships with teen boys.
You are trying to argue that female teachers engage in sexual relationships with boys because of school violence, but there is no evidence for that claim. Research on teacher student abuse does not link these cases to unsafe school environments. The consistent factors are poor boundaries, emotional immaturity, and potentially control. Fear of students is not one of them.
Teachers do not rely on twelve year old boys for safety. They generally rely on administrators, security staff, clear policies, and law enforcement. Teen boys aren't protecting female teachers. Even if the school admins suck, teen boys aren't knights in shining armor.
Husbands who stay with offending teachers do so for common personal reasons like denial, finances, or emotional attachment. They are not staying because they believe their spouse needed a child to feel safe.
Also, female teachers have been hooking up with male students for decades and decades now, and school violence wasn't the reason for them doing it. The main reasons why female teachers are being caught more now is: 1. Technology based texting/meetups is used more often now, which can be traced. 2. People are just holding female teachers more "accountable" now compared to the past.
Female teachers are very much like male teachers. They find the students attractive, they have low inhibitions, they text them in secret, they hook up. It's completely normal for men and women to find teens attractive.
There's literally data going back to the early 2000s in the USA mentioning up to 40% of teachers arrested for student-teacher affairs were female teachers, and teacher violence wasn't a cause.
Dr. David Ley found that female teachers hooking up with teen boys and getting into relationships with them is because these women in their actual dating life/marriages don't feel equal and feel inferior to their partners, so they get with teen boys they know in their school to have some kind of control over them or feel in control.
Others find it's because these women are emotionally immature and truly feel like they love these teen boys and want to marry them.
I've never read any of Dr. David Ley's research, but I'll keep it on my radar to do so. I'm not saying that school violence is the one-size-fits-all cause of female teachers having affairs with their male students in middle schools and high schools. However, when you take into account how much more violent public schools have become and how much more negligent the security in these places have become throughout the years, it still strikes me as a very strong possibility, especially in the inner city of each urban area.
I can appreciate the probable fact that French President Emmanuel Macron and his current wife, French First Lady Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Macron, did not fall in love with each other at the outset of their relationship because of school violence. I haven't heard of France having any problem with school violence in their public school institutions. When they first fell in love with each other, President Macron was 14 years old and First Lady Brigitte Macron was 38 years old. Of course, then again, France is a little more open-minded about those things than Americans are.
I'm perfectly aware that different situations can arise that drive a female teacher and a male teenage student into each other's arms, including the ones that you mentioned. However, as a society, we Americans should not overlook the possibility that beefing up security to protect female teachers from rape and other forms of violence in learning institutions throughout the United States might cause the number of female-teacher/male-teenage-student affairs to plummet in our nation. Even if that number doesn't plummet as a result, at least there will be fewer female teachers being brutally raped, assaulted, and even murdered at the hands of students.
Perhaps I was a bit too extreme in disregarding school violence. I do 100% agree improving school safety is important so this reduces rape, assault, etc.
I simply think the other factors I mentioned are the main causes for why female teacher-male student romances occur.
Perhaps some female teachers sleep with male students and develop relationships with them out of safety, but I highly doubt most are doing it for this reason, as stated by my previous comment/reply. If school violence decreased significantly, I genuinely think we would still see similar levels of female teachers getting caught with male students.
I don't think inner city student-teacher romances has increased significantly compared to prior years. It's simply that they're caught more often now. But, as you pointed out, at least it will significantly reduce violence toward female teachers.
The true reality of female teachers with male students (based on what I've seen/researched, etc) is that they find the students attractive, they feel insecure in their own relationships, they develop feelings for this teen boy because they're around him all day (women are more likely than men to want to get with someone they know well), they have low inhibitions, and they are emotionally immature.
However, I’m open to possibilities, but without concrete evidence it’s all speculation. None of us are currently in school settings, including the researchers, so we can’t assert motives with certainty.
Solid work as usual with your articles. You and I at least don't sweepingly call all teachers predators/pedos for student-teacher romances like many others do.
Flavoslim? I mainly base my contention that school violence feeds the frequency of female teachers having affairs with underage male students on patterns that I have observed after watching a number of different news clips. I admit that I didn't rely on any research in this regard. However, I do believe that researchers should check into these patterns and verify if they are connected with one another, because, if so, it would shed a lot of light on this topic.
What I find so interesting is how diametrically different the American culture is from the French culture in dealing with these kinds of situations. I mean, French President Emmanuel Macron had a relationship of this nature in his past in which he was the underage student and his current wife, French First Lady Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Macron, was his teacher, yet he still got elected president of France.
I have to wonder that if Vili Fualaau were to run for president in two years when he is 35 years old, would the American Court of Public Opinion hold his past with the late Mary Kay Letourneau against him. It would seem unfair, because, after all, all these social-justice warriors that were dead set on locking up the late Mary Kay Letourneau and throwing away the key were insistent that he was a victim. In any event, what stands out very conspicuously is that the French culture doesn't appear to stigmatize these situations to the degree that the American culture does.