Cinnamon has been popular for four thousand years and sex even longer but both have taken on new applications in America's schools and society.
The "cinnamon challenge" now supplements "planking" as a dumb new student fad, teachers having sex with students now supplements their salaries, and courts show that sexism is alive and well.
Heretofore, cinnamon had been used primarily as a diet aid and as a flavorful spice for buns and other desserts until kids discovered that snorting a teaspoon of it could be fun, if you consider gagging, coughing, and vomiting fun.
New Haven's Clinton Avenue School Principal Carmen Ana Rodriquez must enjoy watching fun things since she permitted a student to engage in the dangerous challenge in her cafeteria. Trying to swallow a load of powdered cinnamon can result in damage to the lungs when it is accidentally inhaled.
It's not known whether the student-probably a boy-suffered respiratory difficulties as a result but Rodriquez was turned in and placed on paid administrative leave.
The damage caused to students by teachers seducing them can also be irreparable, not that some teachers are discouraged by that fact.
Three examples in just the last week: A Los Angeles teacher has been charged with molesting some 23 kids, another California teacher molested a 7 year old and recorded the molestation on his cellphone, a Reno teacher admitted to commiting a variety of sex acts on seven students and virtually got away with it.
If nothing else, unmarried Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, 61, must be given credit for his perverted perseverance and creativity. Arrested and held on $ 2.3 million bail for molesting 23 girls and boys ages 6-10, he was charged with committing lewd acts after a film processor showed authorities 40 disturbing pictures.
The photos depicted Berndt with his arm around blindfolded kids whose mouths were taped or had his hand over them, some children with giant cockroaches on their faces, some girls were being fed what apparently was sperm on cookies.
Almost 400 additional pictures of children were found after a search of Berndt's home and classroom as well as an adult sexual bondage DVD. Los Angeles Unified School Dirtrict Superintendent John Deasy said he was "sickened and horrified by the behavior of Mark Berndt."
What's almost more sickening and horrifying is that over the course of the 30 years Berndt taught at Miramonte no one noticed he was a weirdo. Was he that clever in concealing his proclivities or did lax supervision enable him?
Freedom Elementary School teacher Neng Yang may not have been as prolific in his picture taking as Mark Berndt but he was caught anyway.
In a sketchy story reported by the Los Angeles Times, the teacher at the Clovis, California school outside Fresno allegedly not only molested a 7 year old student but was so proud of his crime-and stupid-that he recorded the molestation on his cellphone.
Federal charges were filed against Yang, 43, a second grade teacher at Freedom Elementary School in Clovis, and he was arrested and removed from his classroom. Yang could face more charges if it's determined there were additional victims.
Yang could "face a mandatory prison term of between 15 and 30 years, a $250,000 fine and a lifetime term of supervised release if convicted."
No doubt his cellphone was seized and there likewise is little doubt he, like Mark Berndt, will be greeted and treated appropriately by his fellow inmates.
The Reno teacher, Bethyl Shepherd, 35, needn't worry too much over her incarceration despite admitting her sexcapades with Reed High School teens. She has already been sentenced, a sentence reflecting the inequitable double standard which punishes male sex offenders far more harshly than females.
No fine was imposed and Shepherd must serve all of 60 days in the slammer of her 19 month to 4 year sentence and five years probation because her attorneys explained she is bi-polar. Both prosectors and the parents of the students involved also pleaded for leniency since she is broke and her life has been ruined.
Shepherd's husband is divorcing her, her two children have disowned her, she will never teach again, had to sell her car, and is living with her mother, ruination all caused by Bethyl Shepherd herself.
She should thank God she's not a guy as can 21 year old Marie Fisher, a Special Ed teacher's aide who was arrested the month before Shepherd at the same high school for having sex with a 15 year old. Fisher was given a suspended sentence and 5 years probation after claiming her attention deficit disorder was a factor in her crime.
So much for equality of justice.(See all sources at /blog1/?p=12404.)
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