This is a rad time to be a high-school kid. It used to be that going to high school was the equivalent of enlisting in an epic, mortifying, and possibly doomed quest to get laid, but these days schools are hotbeds of baby-making, and motorcycle-straddling teachers get as much action as politicians. Parents around the country may be panicking, but they can sit back and rest easy in Kentucky, where Nicole Howell, a 26-year-old English teacher and assistant cheerleading coach, has been found totally not guilty after being accused of having a fling with a 16-year-old football player. "My name has been dragged through the mud," Howell told Good Morning America. "I won't be able to teach again. Not because I did anything—I did not—but because of the situation." Okay, sure—so she did exchange 800 text messages with the kid. Over the course of a month and a half. And yeah, a few of his messages were sexually explicit. And no, she didn't exactly, like, tell him to cut it out. Big deal! "I should've said, 'That's inappropriate,'" she said. "I blew it off. It was something I dealt with on a daily basis with other students, other male students." We could all learn from Kentucky, friends. It is a very forgiving state.
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