Today's winner of the CNN.com award for egregious sensationalism in education journalism goes to ABC News, for this headline:
"Alabama Teacher Accused of Sex, Murder Plot"
The only possible silver lining that I can see here is that perhaps this marks some level of media fatique with the tried-and-true, grossly voyeuristic "Female high school teacher has sex with male student" story, the prominence of which is always in direct proportion to the teacher's physical resemblance to Nicole Kidman in "To Die For."
Good looking blonde teacher = front-page national news.
Older, not-so-attractive teacher = page 9 of the Metro section.
In other words, the same process the media use to decide whether or not they care about missing children.
Maybe now there at least needs to be an ancillary murder plot or something else to spice up the story before it runs large like this.
Story tip: Ethan Gray.
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