EVEN in Singapore, we've seen women teachers who cross the line.

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On Monday, a former school teacher, 32, pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old student.

They reportedly had sex six times in chalets and even in her matrimonial flat.

She tried to break off the relationship when the teen became overly possessive and temperamental. But he refused and threatened to kill her and her family, which prompted her to go to the police.

In October last year, a 32-year-old primary school teacher posed in skimpy bikinis in an online Australian bikini contest.

Her pictures then resurfaced on a gossip blog that often contains X-rated material.

A netizen posted her pictures on his blog on 21 Oct last year, saying the teacher was taking part in a bikini competition called Wicked Weasel.

After the press reported on her scantily-clad pictures online, she withdrew from the competition. She was counselled by her supervisors and told not to pursue private interests that might bring disrepute to the profession.

In 2005, another woman teacher in her late 20s crossed the line of what was deemed appropriate behaviour for an educator.

On her blog, which has since been disabled, she posted a picture with three dildos stating that she intends to start a business selling the sex toys.

Her caption below the picture read: 'No price (sic) for guessing what kind of business we are talking about.'

More salacious details of her sex preferences were also revealed on the blog.

On the cover page of her blog, the slim, attractive-looking woman listed the things that get her 'hot'.

They include dirty talk, kissing, lip biting, bites on body, firm butt and kissable lips.

Shocking

What was shocking about the blog was her brazen mixing of her personal and professional life. She made no attempt to conceal the fact that she was a primary school teacher on her blog.

Along with pictures of her sex toys and sexually-explicit details of her life on her blog, there were pictures of her taking her students on school excursions.

After The New Paper did a story on her, she took down her blog.

She was given a warning by her principal but continues to teach.

This article was first published in The New Paper on February 11, 2009.