Scandalous

The Herald reports on a teacher who had an affair with a student as being allowed to teach in a school not far from the one she was teaching at before. Someone points out the apparent double standard

One believed she should never have been allowed to teach again, and that a male teacher would have been “lynched”.

Does this mean that failure to register as a teacher is not grounds to prevent a person from being a teacher? I can only think that the reason they haven’t clamped down on her is because the lack of registration is still a widespread problem. At some stage, somebody did not ask for a teacher registration number and just assumed everything was alright.

And actually, it is possible to “understand” why this happened. I remember a story where a teenager got off relatively lightly because he didn’t have a driver’s license. You can’t impose license restrictions on somebody who doesn’t have a license.

International Affairs

Nothing makes the headlines like Host finds student having sex with wife. One has to feel for the man who gets cheated on. Those South Americans must be very sweet talkers indeed! The only thing that could have any sort of impact on this situation or others he had in the past with students having late night rendez-vous at his house is to have rules in the host agreement about having overnight guests, and being able to enforce them. But I doubt this sort of thing happens that often so having provisions to boot somebody out for having an overnight guest in the first instance would be overkill. And it may not be possible under the pastoral care code.

Other than the guy was an international student, it’s not much of a story really. Plenty of people have had affairs. It’s not as if this guy was Tiger Woods, somebody obscenely famous either.

You couldn’t have gotten better ad placement

I was reading this story about the man who defrauded ASB Bank and spent quite a lot of it on expensive prostitutes. Now ASB is targeting one of the prostitutes to try and get some of their money back. Although I don’t see how they would succeed, given that he was a high powered bank employee so him spending a lot of money on a girl wouldn’t raise suspicions in and out of itself.

What was very interesting was the ad that was run at the bottom of this article.

The ad that was run is for one of ASB Bank’s competitors. And to top it all off, features an alluring woman used in Rabobank’s campaign as the other woman bank you have on the side.

Given my previous statements about the weariness I have about the use of eye candy in marketing, one might have expected me to let this one slide. But the juxtaposition of this was too compelling to ignore. And in the interests of full disclosure, I am a customer of Rabobank. Not because of the eye candy in their marketing, but because they have the best rate.