Posted on 05/15/2025 8:41:19 AM PDT by DFG
The Texas House on Wednesday passed with strong bipartisan support a bill to address what’s been called the “sexual abuse crisis” in Texas public schools.
HB 4623, filed by state Rep. Mitch Little, R-Lewisville, seeks to provide redress in response to tens of thousands of complaints filed against Texas educators.
“We have a sexual abuse crisis in our public schools in Texas. It’s indisputable and we can’t look away,” Little said when discussing his bill on the House floor Tuesday night.
“In 2019, this chamber established a mandatory educator misconduct reporting portal. Between September 21, 2021, and July 2024, there were 52,782 total complaints recorded against Texas educators,” he said.
Little said he paid $60 to have the House Printing Office print out a spreadsheet detailing the complaints by House district, which totals 1,533 pages.
“In the last three years, there were 6,888 reports of sexual and violent misconduct by public school employees against our students in the state of Texas,” he said. “As of July 2024, 6,654 of these allegations were left unresolved.”
The report lists 44,349 educators “who were flagged as ‘do not hire’ in the state of Texas. Yet, enforcement actions remain either inconsistent or nonexistent at all,” he said.
His bill “seeks to provide for civil claims against Texas public schools or professional school employees when there is justification,” according to the bill analysis. It removes sovereign immunity from public school districts for certain acts and omissions by their employees to constitute sexual misconduct.
“We now cannot go in Texas one single week without learning of a new active sex abuse against a child in our public schools. These are euphemistically referred to as an ‘improper relationship’ between a student and educator.
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Preverts know where to hang out.
Sadly, that is part of the story. There are people with evil intentions, who want to coach in youth sports, or teach school, to be close to children. How to screen out such people is a problem.
This needs to happen in every state in the Union.
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For far too long, schools have operated themselves as if the law didn't apply to them or they were outside the law.
That needs to stop!!!!
It’s about bloody time somebody started looking at GOVERNMENT schools ...
The public school is obsolete. We’ll figure that out in, maybe, another 25 years.
All that is needed is openness to the idea. And I would suggest that every place where contact exists between adults and kids who are “ coming of age” has the potential for this to occur. It is evil, but parties are not always aware of this.
Although adults should be aware they may be seeking this. Kids are naturally curious. So it goes.
Deep State’s publik skrewls are a target rich environment.
bump
There was a study done several years ago that showed that kids were 100 times more likely to be molested by a public school employee than by a member of the clergy.
Yep.
So what did Big Media raise a fuss about?
Clergy, of course.
Anything to protect their “god”, Big Government.
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