[IMissPresidentReagan]

I'm not sure about the frequency... a February 18, 2005 article in the Washington Post stated that to date, from 1950-2004, 11, 750 people had made claims that a priest sexually molested them, the majority of the molestation occurring in the 1960's and 1970's, with males aged 10-14.

According to the following quote from a 2004 Newsmax article, which references a US Department of Education report stating that between 6-10% of US school children report being molested or abused by their teachers, it would seem that teachers face similar accusation rates as priests.

Quote from the Newsmax article: "Now, on the heels of the Catholic abuse scandal comes another of historic proportions—one that has the potential to be much greater and far-reaching. According to a draft report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, in compliance with the 2002 "No Child Left Behind" act signed into law by President Bush, between 6 percent and 10 percent of public school children across the country have been sexually abused or harassed by school employees and teachers.

Charol Shakeshaft, the Hofstra University scholar who prepared the report, said the number of abuse cases—which range from unwanted sexual comments to rape—could be much higher.

"So we think the Catholic Church has a problem?" she told industry newspaper Education Week in a March 10 interview.

To support her contention, Shakeshaft compared the priest abuse data with data collected in a national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000. Extrapolating data from the latter, she estimated roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a school employee from a single decade—1991-2000. That compares with about five decades of cases of abusive priests"

But, like you, I doubt seriously that the media will hold "investigative" reports and the like on the teacher scandals.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Being molested by government school employees at school?



It's just part of that "social interaction" that is required in our government school system.

"you know, the "social interaction" that is missing from home-schooler's environment."

The government school system that gets MONEY by the number of kids sitting in the classroom. Not by what's taught, or by what's learned, but ONLY by how many are sitting on their butts in the classroom.

[sitetest]

Dear IMissPresidentReagan,

"... it would seem that teachers face similar accusation rates as priests."

No, not by any stretch at all.

Approximately 2% - 4% of priests were accused over the past 60 years. But the number of victims totaled around 10,000.

Now, 10,000 is 10,000 too many, let's make that clear from the get-go. And these priests should have all been prosecuted and jailed from the start.

However, that's 10,000 out of some tens of millions of Catholic children over that period. We're talking about a rate of perhaps 0.1% of all Catholic children being harassed or molested by Catholic priests. That's about one-tenth of one percent.

"...between 6 percent and 10 percent of public school children across the country have been sexually abused or harassed by school employees and teachers."

The difference is two or three orders of magnitude.


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