The Venice High School student newspaper The Oarsman spent months investigating a teacher's past relationship and messy breakup with actor Edward Furlong ("Terminator 2") -- then was barred from running the story by the principal, who cited privacy concerns. The students, who were guided on the story by L.A. Times investigative reporter Glenn Bunting, call it censorship in a Times story. Furlong was 16 or 17 when the affair began, and the teacher was 29. They met when she was his stand-in on the movie.
If she was a guy with this history, she wouldn't have been hired. It's one thing that she had sex with a 17 year old when she was 29, but she sued him for palimony. What a sleaze bag! It sure doesn't take much to teach in LA schools.
Posted by: Karen at June 21, 2003 06:49 AM

By the way, the author of that Los Angeles Times piece was once written about in the Times himself, after he was accused of censorship.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/J360/reparations.htm
Posted by: Joey at June 21, 2003 03:26 AM