Re: Illegal to have . with a 16-year-old abroad...

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Re: Illegal to have . with a 16-year-old abroad...

Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:15:35 +0100

On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:16:05 -0700 (PDT), lisabartal@hotmail.com
wrote:

>> It could be prosecuted, but *only* if it was an offence in the UK. If
>> a teacher were to have . with a 17 year old student he was taking on
>> an educational trip to Spain, for example.

>Why is the reference always "he"?

Because it gets tedious to write "s/he" and "his/her" all the time.
The convention is that any reference to one gender includes the other
gender unless explicitly excluded.

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Cynic

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