Cover-up! Scandal! Lawsuits! Lawsuits! Lawsuits!
Oh wait, these aren't Catholic priests?
Nevermind.
Posted on 01/05/2007 9:13:41 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
City teachers, principals and other school workers were accused of more crimes by school investigators in 2006 than in any recent year, a new report shows. Of the 259 allegations that special schools investigator Richard Condon leveled at school employees last year, he turned a record-high 101 cases over to federal or state prosecutors for possible criminal probes. That's up 68% from 2005, when only 60 cases were referred to prosectors and higher than any year since Condon's office started keeping track in 2002.
Among alleged wrongdoers was a middle school math teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student he was supposed to be tutoring; an elementary school teacher who allegedly groped a 10 year-old; a trusted Department of Education secretary who invented a fake child to dupe taxpayers out of $116,000 worth of special-education tutoring, and a Brooklyn principal accused of stealing more than $10,000 from her school.
Condon credited the city's 311 phone system, greater vigilance by school auditors and publicity about consequences for school employees who fail to report wrongdoing for the record 2,552 complaints his office received last year. Of those, Condon pursued 638 cases and found enough evidence to make an accusation in 259 cases.
Cases included 86 school employees - including as many as 56 teachers - accused of sexual misconduct ranging from rape to relationships with students to sexual harassment.
Condon recommended 121 firings last year, most of which are still pending due to union procedures. Only 41 of those firings have taken effect.
Seize all the personnel records, correspondance and documents of the school district, going back 50 years. Gin up a couple dozen multi-million dollar lawsuits. Watch and grin as the school district has to sell off schools, offices, equipment, real estate, and maybe go into bankruptcy in order to pay off settlements for incidents that happened in the 1970's and 1980's, and up to the present.
Put everybody's name and picture out to the media: the suspected, the accused, the convicted, the living and the dead.
Drastic?
Isn't that what they're doing to the Catholics?
If they would just let these teachers marry, there wouldn't be any problem. -sarc
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Ha--yeah but the libs wanted to take the Catholic Church out, which they did, the public school system is part and parcel of the liberal model, so it will never be treated the same.
Interesting point there!
2,552 sex abuse cases in one year. Multiply that by 50 years, and you get 127,600 cases. That's probably a little inflated, since perhaps many of the cases would have taken place over several years. Then again, the Catholic priesthood, about 1/3 the size of the NYC teachers' workforce had fewer than 1,000 over 50 years, IIRC.
Trying to wean out the predators in the public school teachers is going to be harder because of union hiring and firing rules and because of PC politicians trying to score points with lib voters by being "tolerant".
IMHO.
But we only hear about the priests in the media. Go figure?
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LOL! It does illustrate the ludicrousness of that argument, doesn't it?
Bookmarking this sucker...
Why how could this be? To hear your Bloomy Mayor talk, schools in New York are pure, angelic places to be, the children listen and only talk when asked, they leave their cell-phones, guns, bow and arrows, etc. at the door when they enter.....
Gosh what happened?????
Unions doing such a GREAT job of protecting the incompetent and crminal once again...
They should let women become teachers.
I think your idea has excellent ramifications - the end of government schools in NYC.
But the difference between the NYC school scandals and that of the Catholic Priest Scandals is that of proximity of justice.
That was the real scandal in the Church, that it was justice denied, crimes covered up for so many years.
Is there evidence for a coverup on a massive scale for these crimes in the city schools ?
If so, then your comparison is valid.
(From School Reform News, Sept. 2004):
"A few years ago, for example, a review of 412 teachers hired by the Cleveland, Ohio school district disclosed only 26 had undergone required background checks. Not only did 192 school employees have felony convictions, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, but 27 of them had three or more."
Evidence of cover-up? Who needs to cover up if nobody is looking?
The double standard is disgusting. But then the public school system is beloved by the left, the media, the feminazis and can do no wrong.
The Catholic church is hated by the left, the media, and the feminazis.
That explains the double standard.
And to your remarks let us say, Amen!
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Again, this was the coverup.
With regard to the comparisons between the rate of sex crimes of Catholic schools and public schools, your data underlines the superiority of the climate and standards created in Catholic schools. This should be underscored in the Catholic Church's PR.
If the MSM was fair, it would also be illuminated in the MSM. But it has had, as its mission, the denigration of Catholics.
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