ABC - A middle school teacher has been charged with cyberstalking one of her 13-year-old students, and the boy's mother claims that her son isn't the only one receiving inappropriate text messages from the female teacher. Megan Mantooth, 26, is a popular eighth grade math teacher in Burgaw Middle School, a tiny town of 4,000 people in southern North Carolina where her husband is a deputy sheriff. Mantooth has been charged with cybertalking, allegedly sending "hundreds" of text messages to her student, which included "a lot of sexual innuendos," according to the boy's mother, Elizabeth Graham. The "hundreds" of texts that Graham said Mantooth sent her child included one that Graham read to ABCNews.com: "I wish you were home by yourself right now because I don't have the kids," and "More how? As in see ME more or less clothes more, or both." Mantooth allegedly compared herself to the middle school female students telling the boy that she would "look better in a bikini," Graham said. She also allegedly made plans to meet the student at his beach house, texting him, "I cannot wait 8 more days to see you." "I asked [my son], 'Why is she texting you?' He said, 'It's OK she's not my teacher anymore.' And I said, 'No it's not OK."
MEGAN MANTOOTH IS A SAINT! YOU HEAR ME, MEGAN MANTOOTH IS A SAINT! (Anchorman reference because I fell asleep to the movie last night).
Maybe I'm just a bit confused, but what exactly did Megan do wrong here? Did she send this kid any inappropriate pictures for a 14 year old? Nope. Was she still his teacher, capable of influencing his grades? Nope. Did she ever meet up with him for special tutoring? Nope. Did the kid seem to mind or feel uncomfortable? Nope.
So what exactly is she being charged with? Being friendly? Flirting and innuendo? Is that a crime these days? Is that the message we want to send to kids? Don't flirt or you'll go to jail? What better way to raise a generation of repressed creeps and uptight homicidal maniacs.
And unless they're holding back the really juicy texts, I don't see the innuendo here, you ask me these parents have a bit of a twisted mind if they're reading anything into these:
"More how? As in see ME more or less clothes more, or both." - I believe they were talking about seeing each other at the beach in a week, all she's doing here is presenting the facts, when you see someone on the beach they tend to be wearing less clothes than say, in the classroom at school. Just a fact.
" Mantooth allegedly compared herself to the middle school female students telling the boy that she would "look better in a bikini" - Well, facts are facts. Grown, mature women do tend to look better in bikini's than 8th grade children. She's got a bit of a biological advantage here, wouldn't you say? Again, nothing but the facts here.
