Teachers Sleeping With Students Increasing

The r/K Selection Theory Facebook Discussion Page located here is always hopping.

If you haven’t been there, stop by.

Here is an article it discussed, which is otherwise inexplicable, without r/K:

… teachers are committing more student-related sex crimes, and he cited several examples, including the following:

In Texas, home to the largest number of teacher sexual misconduct cases in the country, investigations into alleged inappropriate teacher-student relationships has grown 27 percent over the past three years, to 179. Kentucky schools reported more than 45 sexual relationships between teachers and students in 2011, up from 25 just a year earlier. And a surge has been reported in Alabama, where the state investigated 31 cases during the year ending July 2013, nearly triple the number it had investigated just four years earlier.

But this data involves teacher-student sex crimes generally. What about female educators specifically?

Though Abbott did not directly address this question, the research he cites suggests that female teacher-student sex crimes are on the rise.

In 2014, Abbott said, two-thirds of reported teacher-related sexual misconduct cases with students involved men; that means one-third of the cases involved female teachers.

If Abbott’s statistics are accurate, it would represent an enormous increase from just a decade ago, when female teachers accounted for as little as four percent of reported sex crimes involving students. (This, of course, assumes the studies cited in Saleton’s article are accurate, as well.)

What does it all mean?

A more precise review of data is no doubt warranted before it would be prudent to declare this a sexual epidemic. Anyone who has worked with statistics knows they can be fickle.

But sometimes conventional wisdom is right.

So let’s assume for a moment that sex crimes committed by female teachers are on the rise. The question becomes: What is driving it?

Abbott points to social media.

Yes and no. Social media probably contributes to dopamine load, so in that sense it may add to the problem. But this problem has been percolating much longer, and has a much more substantial foundation. This is an epigenetic and environmental adaptation of psychology, designed to alter reproductive strategy in such a way as to exploit r-selection.

What is interesting is that there seems to be an inflection point in the species. Some, perhaps for genetic reasons, perhaps for other reasons, reach that inflection point, and it is a sudden slide into super-r, no matter what happens. I almost get the impression, for these individuals, the amygdala-strain of a coming Apocalypse almost drives them even deeper into fantasy, amygdala-shutdown, and pathological rabbitry. Others, having never reached the inflection point seem able to pull back, and return to a more K-psychology.

It is this phenomenon that I suspect could have some role in civil wars past. As we are seeing today, it produces a super-r psychology, which there is no dealing with peacefully. The only question now is, are there enough of them forming to foment a sizable enough insurgency.

I think not, but hold off the Apocalypse long enough, and who knows.

Tell your friends about r/K Theory, because dopamine is dangerous