Thursday, August 23, 2007

New Los Angeles Play, Mustang Sally, Explores Root Cause of Sexual Misconduct by Teachers

The plethora of female teachers charged with sexual misconduct with their male students is now such a common news headline that playwright Linda Felton Steinbaum was compelled to write her new play, Mustang Sally, which addresses the intriguing similarities of the families of the perpetrators. "To say these families are dysfunctional is an understatement," says Linda. "And so many of them! It's shocking how young the majority of the victims are. Most assume that if a female teacher finds herself in an inappropriate relationship with an underage boy, he must be very mature and manly. Not so. Almost fifty percent of these boys are 13 or younger."
Listed here are just a few of the cases that have garnered the media's attention; Joan Marie Sladky with a 16-year old, View the rest of this article


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