“A British teachers’ union representative has come under fire after claiming that teachers who engage in consensual sex with students over the age of 16 should not be prosecuted, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported Sunday. Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said in an interview to be broadcast in the U.K. on Monday that teachers who have sex with pupils over the age of consent are guilty of a mere ‘error in professional judgment,’ and should not be placed on the sex offenders register, the Mail reported.” [editor’s note: Were it not for the unequal power-standing of pupil-to-teacher, this lady might not be far off-base; since that imbalance clearly exists, she’s clearly crackers! - SAT] [additional editor’s note: Existence of a “power imbalance” is not evidence of misuse of said “imbalance” - TLK] (10/05/08)