This lady clearly took advantage of her position and took advantage of these boys. If a male gym teacher took advantage of my child I would want that person arrested. This girl is getting a slap on the wrist.

The way it is now, it matters to the public and press not who you are or how honest or ethical, it only matters that someone charges you with something. You'll be convicted by the press and the allegations before any truth ever has the chance to surface. And if you're unlucky enough to be a teacher accused of anything, you will lose your job--even if a student fabricates a total untruth against you. It happens. It happened to a friend of mine. I do not know the facts in this case. Do you, LetUrVOICEbHeard? Is being defamed publicly before the facts are even aired, and placed on leave from your job publicly a slap on the wrist? Do you think this lady will be able to even work in the valley after this? This teacher does know the facts, the students do, and hopefully the truth will be allowed to come out.

Thank you miniaturemonkey for not posting such a truth and respectful post. Many people, male and female, are wrongly accused of many crimes daily. Yes, many more are guilty but when did "innocent until proven guilty" change?

If this were you in this position, how would you feel. God help her if she is guilty but when the facts come out and by chance she is innocent, how can this entire sensationalized frenzy be recanted and ignored. This person (and clearly innocent family) will be marked for life. It is nice to be informed but sometimes we need to just MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS and worry about what is going on in our own backyard.

Unless you were present, then you have no clue if she "clearly took advantage" of anything. Let the defendant have her day in court and judge yourself. Opinion is one thing but blindly condemning another is overboard.

if it quacks like a duck..

LOL.. I have not heard that in a long time.."if it quacks like a duck" there is a lot of truth behind that little clip. Seems like the teachers have a tendency to forget that they are to enlighten the minds of our children through education..not through those extra activities. Be a teacher..help solve issues not create more. When teachers go a stray it makes the others look bad.

LetUrVOICEbHeard - are you speaking because you have taken advantage of a 16 year old boy or do you have a personal issue with Ms. Taylor. Are you psychic? I personally don't know either the alleged victim or the alleged defendant and have been a victim. But, in light of my misfortune, I choose to not judge all others unless I have personal, firsthand knowledge that i know to be true. Tabloid gossip or speculation are not facts.

quacking like a duck means??????? Yes, there are terrible people out there of all sexes, race and age. This person has barely had one court appearance and you have her hung.

Let us hope that you are not on the other side of that bill any time in the future, on any offense. Cause boy, wouldn't that be terrible if you were judged the same?

If it spews like an ignoramous...

Aintthatfunny,

How naive can you be? Sure, you may be right in saying that it's unfair to pre-judge the situation without knowing facts. By no means can I dispute that. Your point is very clear, and makes perfect sense. Again, there is no denying what you're saying in terms of judgement. I've been accused of something did not do, and believe me it sucks. It wasn't anything of this magnitude, no, but your point still hold validity.

But let's face facts here, parnter. No police agency is going to make any apprehension or arrest (which ever terminoligy you prefer) based off of hear say. Period. For you do ridicule Letyourvoicebeheard because he/she is pointing out the obvious is... ignorant. I'm going to just assume she is completely innocent of the accusation of the actual sex accusation, she's still wrong and guilty of lack of professionalism and moral value in some way, shape, or form. That's cut and dry. There's no doubt about it.

400 texts echanged with proof of photos, and you folks that support her truly believe she's completely innocent of all allegations? In my opinion, anybody who supports this woman is ignorant, biased to the situation, and obviously lost somewhere in outter space. I'm sorry, but I'm going to call it how it is, and she lost all credibility when she threw her career on the line for even giving those studens the slightest bit of ground to make the claims.
As common of a job as it is, teaching is a profession, not a hobby or a fall back job for that matter. It's a profession, and along with that profession there needs to be some self pride and passion for the profession.

I'm neutral to the entire situation, but this is almost a no brainer.

Here's a quote that should make you re-think the duck annalogy. As the great Katt Willimas once said... "If somebody tells you you're a crack head and then comes back 15 years later and tell you the same thing...... you're smokin' crack!"

I feel sorry for the woman, her alleged victims, her family and her friends.

If she is innocent of any wrongdoing, then this must be a terrible ordeal. If she is innocent, I have faith in our legal system to determine so.

If she is guilty, this is still a terrible ordeal for all involved. However, if she is guilty and the courts return such judgment, then it will become much more difficult for her supporters to maintain their denial systems.

I understand having "faith" in a person, but that faith in the fallible can often be misplaced. Some people can be manipulative and deceptive, relying on others belief in them to buoy the perpetrator long after reason should have sunk them.

Desert Rover,

I couldn't hacve put it better myself when you said, "she's still wrong and guilty of lack of professionalism and moral value in some way, shape, or form. That's cut and dry. There's no doubt about it."

I agree with Desert Rover.If all the evidence they had was the accusation of a student she would never have been arrested or suspended.The reason she is in this position is because of the text messages she sent to these students period.

Desert Rover,
Thank you for your comments. They are truly enlightening.

Ignorant, biased, lost in outer space would possibly describe someone who cannot understand words in front of them.

I am not Ms. Taylor's supporter, I was responding to the rash/unjust judgment. Ms. Taylor was not arrested and (with alleged texts/pictures) was allowed to remain free on her own recognizance.

If she is guilty, I say give her the maximum penalty that you can. Absolutely. But if she is innocent, by chance, then her families' life is ruined. Is anyway as family never recovers from these types of hurts.

Kudos on the quote, it is very insightful. Very literary also.

Why thanks. I'm not quite sure I stand on the compliments. It's tough to tell if sarcasm existed in your post, Aintthatfunny. Especially when I just partially disagreed with what it was you were saying.

Personally, I feel absolutely terrible for the family. There's no way the husband and children deserve to go through any of this. But, this is going to surely test the strength of the family in it's entirety. If I were to make any further comment about Taylor, it would be that even if she is fount not guilty, I will still hold no level of respect for her due to the lack of professionalism and moral standards she exhibited that got her put in this situation to begin with.

Everybody fells "terrible for the family and children" - but what about her (alleged) victims. East Valley is a small community, and I'm sure everybody knows who they are.
The pressure on them must be intense, and if anything, they will be marked for life as surely as she and her family will be.

kbatku since you mentioned the victims If the allegations prove to be true let us look at the actions of this 15 year old kid.When hit on by his married teacher he did not have sex with her.He even went so far as reminding her that she had a husband.When she persisted he went to the authorities.Here is the person that should have the "supporters".I think we could all learn a lesson from this kid.

Wow Phantom - I didn't know that. Good for him - so much for my "marked for life" theory. Somebody ought to give him a medal.

Are you two serious? DID I MISS SOMETHING? Are we following the same story?

First and foremost, the allegations are that there were text messages exchanged between Taylor and the students, both. Then, also allegedly a sexual encounter between taylor and one of the students. Do you think that IF she had a guilty concience she'd turn herself in? No way is she that dumb. Last I heard, and note I am being dead serious, the students came forth and basically confirmed some things with the authorities (which we mutually agree on by the way.) However, the thinking that sepparates us is you believe these two to be victims while I disagree.

You see, there's this thing called human nature. It's called reproduction. In order to reproduce, you have to have intercourse - also known as sex. Unless you're a homosexual and going through the motions to entertain the needs of your partner, it takes two to make this happen. Should this be founded at the end of all of this, I think it's fair to say that she did not put a gun to the student's head nor get him intoxicated to make the alleged actions happen.

The only way I would consider these two young men victims is by playing a key role in a public embarassment. And in my humble opinion the only way one could be a victim is if he was approached with an offer by Taylor and immediately turned her in after being harrassed. And since we're speaing based on truth, I'm pretty sure it's a harsh reality that the proposed situation was not what happened. The time just doesn't add up. But then again, I could be wrong. But it's doubtful that these two are actual victims based on the judicial systems ruling. They're just as much a part of the issue (IF THE RESULTS FIND TAYLOR GUILTY OF ADULTRY or a bogus amount of text message exchanges.)

It's obvious, everybody is suffering from this, but the kids aren't victims in my opinion. That's just me, and Im not a judge or jury, so don't take me literally.

Again, if I missed an article, somebody please inform me. If this kid did exactly as described, kudos to him. It takes more than courage stepping into a poo-puddle like that.

Teacher student sex = IMMORAL! No debate, violation of trust! NO TALKING! Teacher student sex = JAIL TIME!

Let's keep it simple.

Desert Rover:My info came from two sources.KAPPTV.com if you type in east valley high in the story search the sept.10 article by Lindsay Watts titled New Details in East Valley Teacher Sex Case.It is alleged the student asked about her husband.The second is from KNDO http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?s=11110208
click on the summons request at bottom it does state that it was the student who came forward

I am with kbatku, she has a husband an triplets, and no matter the outcome the entire family is never going to recover from this. As for the alledged victims, if it is true, they'll either: never recover, or they'll tell the story for the rest of their lives because they were able to have sex with their teacher! (Sorry, but honestly 15 and 16, they're not babies, and I've seen pictures of the teacher, she is very pretty. I bet the boys are probably both excited about it.)