Courtney Speer, 31, is a high school teacher in Bryant, Arkansas. She has been accused of having sex with one of her students on multiple occasions. The victim is a 17 year old former student who the 31 year old allegedly had sex with at her home in
Benton, Arkansas on more than one occasion, as well as in the school parking lot a couple of times. School resource officers were the ones who reported the inappropriate relationship. Many parents were disturbed to hear that a person with a position of trust
over students could do such a horrible thing. Speer recently turned herself in after the investigations started and she has also resigned from her position as an english teacher at the high school.
The issue of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students is not just a problem found in the United States, teachers take advantage of students sexually all over the world. A ballet teacher in the United Kingdom, 27 year old Sarah Pirie, has
been accused of kidnapping a young male student and having sex with him. She is alleged to have taken many teenagers before to hotels in Manchester. She is facing five charges of sexually touching a 15 year old boy. More than 300 teachers in Queensland, Australia are under investigation for inappropriate behavior with students. One teacher got students to strip naked and took sexually explicit photos of them, while another allegedly had a threesome with students in the back of his car after a gay pride parade. Many teachers had managed to slip through the net without being found and allowed to be re-hired in Queensland, Schools. While the Queenslandʼs Department of
Education is working to gain more background information on teachers these kinds of sexual abuse and inappropriate relationships are happening throughout other parts of Australia and all over the world. Most of the teachers “flying under the radar” and being able to continue to teach. This is a global problem that needs to be taken seriously and previous sex offenders should be kept from ever being allowed to slip through the cracks and be able to commit such crimes in different schools and possibly other countries.
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