The reason why so many “teacher of the year” award winners end-up going to prison for child sexual abuse is because they have a high degree of emotional congruence with minors. They are predators whose skill set is easily masked as one who understands the thoughts, emotions, and motivations of minors, giving them even greater access.
You clearly didn’t read it. The rate not the raw number. Per the Dept. of Education, 5-7% of teachers are abusers. That is 20-50+% higher than the rate (i.e percent) priests abuse. The average school in America has several abusers in it.
Lemmy talks a big game about the Catholics, and damn does that church know how to run a cover up, but schools are frankly ripe for reforms and accountability.
More religious people rape kids than teachers—by far. Stop defending people who excuse their shit behavior with god.
You might say there is a discrepancy between actual rate and reported rate.
Is it more underreported than the notoriously underreported abuse in schools?
For real, we are on a post where an abusive career teacher got a ‘teacher of the year award’ no doubt in part for her behavior around students.
I am not doing this to whatabout abuse in the Catholic Church. I left it and won’t be going back. But it’s so odd to bring it up on a post about a teacher getting charged, the school clearly not identifying the problem (she had been a teacher for 11 years, it had been going on for a year, they didn’t report it and even rewarded her behavior prior to the reports).
Schools have a serious systemic problem here too, and I don’t believe we should deflect every time it makes the news. That’s all.
Aren’t Catholic priests notoriously underreported though because of how defended by the church they are?
Is it more underreported than the notoriously underreported abuse in schools?
For real, we are on a post where an abusive teacher got a ‘teacher of the year award’ no doubt in part for her behavior around students.
I am not doing this to whatabout abuse in the Catholic Church. I left it and won’t be going back. But it’s so odd to bring it up on a post about a teacher getting charged, the school clearly not identifying the problem (they didn’t report it and even rewarded her behavior prior to the reports).
Schools have a serious problem and I don’t believe we should deflect every time it makes the news. That’s all.
Not doing what aboutism, just trying to explain what their point may have been. I’m a different person than brought it up, so just guessing. Yes, schools have real problems too.