“A report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education in 2004 revealed that nearly 9.6 percent of students are victims of sexual abuse by school personnel, and these are just the reported cases.”
BS
1 in 10 children have NOT had their wee-wee’s played with by their teachers. Just pointing out reality.
Here is the accurate data:
This analysis (Shakeshaft, 2003) indicates that 9.6 percent of all students in grades 8 to 11 report contact and/or noncontact educator sexual misconduct that was unwanted. 8.7 percent report only noncontact sexual misconduct and 6.7 percent experienced only contact misconduct...Based on the assumption that the AAUW surveys accurately represent the experiences of all K-12 students, more than 4.5 million students are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade.
Check out this thread - SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN THE CLASSROOM: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
We can stop prioritizing the comfort of adults, over the safety of children. Why do school employees sexually abuse and exploit students?Because they CAN.
This was the only comprehensive research I could find, and it's 18-years old. This is stunning: such a huge problem and it's getting no academic research. This is probably due to an unspoken blackballing that'd happen to academics who shine light on this grotesque underbelly of education.
Other posts on this subject include this Ted Talk about Stopping Sexual Abuse by School Employees stating that 5.7 million students have faced sexual abuse from school employees across all 50 states in America and this article on how predatory teachers stay on the job.
The recent groomer sensation has (finally) riled up people, and the trans and same-sex dimension has been the magnet. Fair enough, and while same-sex educator-student abuse at about 30% of instances is higher vs this group's composition in society, opposite sex educator-student abuse at 70%+ of all misconduct remains in the majority.
Favorably, homeschooling is on the ascent.