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** Her school may have operated on a different schedule. The modern 9-10 month calendar with a summer break originated in northern urban districts - prior to the invention of air conditioning, summer was the one period that it was virtually impossible to operate the school building in a northern city. For decades and decades, rural districts set their own calendars based on the local farming calendar, since students would be held out during busy times on the farm, which often meant school ran during winter and summer.
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* On that front, how is it that Blanche has an affair with one of her students, and yet the only consequence is that she's been fired? Doesn't that sort of thing warrant a jail sentence?
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* On that front, how is it that Blanche has an affair with rapes one of her students, and yet the only consequence is that she's been fired? Doesn't that sort of thing warrant a jail sentence?
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*** The age of consent in Mississippi is 16 even ''today'' (it ranges from 16-18 across the US.) It was highly inappropriate, both due to her being a teacher and due to her age difference - and was seen as such at the time, given the severe consequences she did face - but it was not illegal, so losing her job and being driven out of town was as severe as a punishment as she could have reasonably faced.
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*** The age of consent in Mississippi is 16 even ''today'' (it ranges from 16-18 across the US.) It was highly inappropriate, both due to her being a teacher and due to her age difference - and was seen as such at the time, given the severe consequences she did face and how shocking the revelation is - but it was not illegal, so losing her job and being driven out of town was as severe as a punishment as she could have reasonably faced.
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*** The age of consent in Mississippi is 16 even ''today'' (it ranges from 16-18 across the US.) It was highly inappropriate, both due to her being a teacher and due to her age difference - and was seen as such at the time, given the severe consequences she did face - but it was not illegal, so losing her job and being driven out of town was as severe as a punishment as she could have reasonably faced.
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** I'm pretty sure that as the student was 17 and the age of consent was 16 then, although it would have been seen as inapropriate there was nothing ''illegal'' about the affair.
** [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale The student was a boy.]].
** [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale The student was a boy.]].
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** I'm pretty sure that as the student was 17 and the age of consent was 16 then, although it would have been seen as inapropriate inappropriate there was nothing ''illegal'' about the affair.
** [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale The student was a boy.]].]].
** All of the above, plus in this time period, the school (and likely the parents) would likely want to hush up the whole embarrassing affair. The parents might even have agreed ''not'' to press charges as long as Blanche lost her job.
** [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale The student was a boy.
** All of the above, plus in this time period, the school (and likely the parents) would likely want to hush up the whole embarrassing affair. The parents might even have agreed ''not'' to press charges as long as Blanche lost her job.
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** I'm pretty sure that as the student was 17 and the age of consent was 16 then, although it would have been seen as inapropriate there was nothing ''illegal'' about the affair.
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** I'm pretty sure that as the student was 17 and the age of consent was 16 then, although it would have been seen as inapropriate there was nothing ''illegal'' about the affair.
** [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale The student was a boy.]].
** [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale The student was a boy.]].
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*** Or that she realizes that Blanche wouldn't tell her the truth, anyway.
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* On that front, how is it that Blanche has an affair with one of her students, and yet the only consequence is that she's been fired? Doesn't that sort of thing warrant a jail sentence?
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* On that front, how is it that Blanche has an affair with one of her students, and yet the only consequence is that she's been fired? Doesn't that sort of thing warrant a jail sentence?sentence?
** I'm pretty sure that as the student was 17 and the age of consent was 16 then, although it would have been seen as inapropriate there was nothing ''illegal'' about the affair.
** I'm pretty sure that as the student was 17 and the age of consent was 16 then, although it would have been seen as inapropriate there was nothing ''illegal'' about the affair.
