Author Spotlight: In a World Just Right by Jen Brooks.Author Spotlight: Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson.Review: What We Knew by Barbara Stewart.Review: Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn.Pre-Pub Review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon.We're all capable of doing bad or immoral things, and to pretend that people who do are somehow different from us only makes cartoon villains out of them, as if there are "bad people" and "good people." There aren't bad people, just human beings who do bad things (except Dick Cheney I'm pretty sure he's Satan). I don't think it helps us to think that anyone who'd do something like this is an inhuman monster. With that said, relationships can be messy and ambiguous, and we don't always know why we're drawn to the people we are. Even when a student is of age, I think the power imbalance makes it extremely difficult to have an equal relationship also, teenagers are still maturing emotionally, and there's a big difference between, say, an 18-year-old and a 22-year-old (I would not have believed anyone who told me that when I was 18, because I thought I was incredibly mature, but having come out of the other side of it, I can tell you definitively that I was not). Obviously, relationships between underage students and teachers are not only immoral but illegal, as they should be.
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