Cinnamon, Sex, and Sexism in Society

Cinnamon, Sex, and Sexism in Society

Cinnamon has been popular for four thousand years and sex even longer but both have taken on new applications in America’s schools and society.

The “cinnamon challenge” now supplements “planking” as a dumb new student fad, teachers having sex with students now supplements their salaries, and courts show that sexism is alive and well.

Heretofore, cinnamon had been used primarily as a diet aid and as a flavorful spice for buns and other desserts until kids discovered that snorting a teaspoon of it could be fun, if you consider gagging, coughing, and vomiting fun.

New Haven’s Clinton Avenue School Principal Carmen Ana Rodriquez must enjoy watching fun things since she permitted a student to engage in the dangerous challenge in her cafeteria. Trying to swallow a load of powdered cinnamon can result in damage to the lungs when it is accidentally inhaled.

It’s not known whether the student–probably a boy–suffered respiratory difficulties as a result but Rodriquez was turned in and placed on paid administrative leave.

The damage caused to students by teachers seducing them can also be irreparable, not that some teachers are discouraged by that fact.

Three examples in just the last week: A Los Angeles teacher has been charged with molesting some 23 kids, another California teacher molested a 7 year old and recorded the molestation on his cellphone, a Reno teacher admitted to commiting a variety of sex acts on seven students and virtually got away with it.

If nothing else, unmarried Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, 61, must be given credit for his perverted perseverance and creativity. Arrested and held on $ 2.3 million bail for molesting 23 girls and boys ages 6-10, he was charged with committing lewd acts after a film processor showed authorities 40 disturbing pictures.

The photos depicted Berndt with his arm around blindfolded kids whose mouths were taped or had his hand over them, some children with giant cockroaches on their faces, some girls were being fed what apparently was sperm on cookies.

Almost 400 additional pictures of children were found after a search of Berndt’s home and classroom as well as an adult sexual bondage DVD. Los Angeles Unified School Dirtrict Superintendent John Deasy said he was “sickened and horrified by the behavior of Mark Berndt.”

What’s almost more sickening and horrifying . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12404.)