{"id":477,"date":"2007-09-08T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/09\/08\/allenna-ward-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T03:21:23","slug":"allenna-ward-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/allenna-ward-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Allenna Ward: All the News That’s Fit to Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just like any normal person, I am fascinated by stories about female teachers who have sex with their students. It seems like a recent phenomenon, but perhaps it\u2019s just coming to light now. Mary Kay Letourneau will always be my favorite, but I\u2019ve just read about Allenna Ward, a married, 23 year old middle school teacher who has admitted to having sex with five of her students, all aged 14 and 15.<\/p>\n

Allenna Ward is a white Minister\u2019s daughter from South Carolina, and her \u2018victims\u2019 were all black. I learned this by googling her after reading a small item about her in the Los Angeles Times. In the Times, there was no mention of race.<\/p>\n

I assume that the race aspect was left out in a concession to political correctness. But to my mind, this is part of the story. It\u2019s not the whole story, but it\u2019s significant. I\u2019ve tried to figure out a reason for it\u2019s significance that doesn\u2019t strike me as racist, and I\u2019ve come up with this: By having sex with black boys, this white teacher has crossed yet another boundary, besides the one that forbids physical intimacy between teacher and student. I don\u2019t want my newspaper to decide what part of a story is too racially inflammatory to report.<\/p>\n

Opinions, anyone? Meanwhile, here is the mother lode<\/a> of stuff about \u2018women predators on campus.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"