Cover-up! Scandal! Lawsuits! Lawsuits! Lawsuits!
Oh wait, these aren't Catholic priests?
Nevermind.
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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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...
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.
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.
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Not nearly drastic enough. One needs to go medieval on them and start setting the perps in a tree stump [a stump was split with a wedge, the perp was forced to sit on it with his appendages in the slot, and then the splitting wedge was pulled out on him amidst general rejoicing and celebrations]. A few tree stumps done in public - and the morals and practices would improve beyond belief and wildest imagination.
Dear Mrs. Don-o,
Works for me.
On a per capita basis, the abuse cited here is probably two or three orders of magnitude greater than that which afflicted the Church.
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"Condon recommended 121 firings last year, most of which are still pending due to union procedures. Only 41 of those firings have taken effect."
From this story:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_15_06_JS.html
One New York teacher decided that one of his 16-year-old students was hot. So he sat down at a computer and sent a sexual e-mail to Cutee101.
"He admits this," said Klein. "We had the e-mail."
"You can't fire him?"
"It's almost impossible."
It's almost impossible because of the rules in the New York schools' 200-page contract with their teachers. There are so many rules that principals rarely even try to jump through all the hoops to fire a bad teacher. It took six years of expensive litigation before the teacher who wrote Cutee101 was fired. During those six years, he received more than $300,000 in salary.
"Up, down, around, we've paid him," said the chancellor. "He hasn't taught, but we've had to pay him, because that is what is required under the contract."
Hundreds of teachers the city calls incompetent, racist, or dangerous have been paid millions.
And what do they do while they get paid? They sit in rubber rooms.
They're not really made of rubber, of course. They are big, empty rooms where they store the teachers they are afraid to let near the kids. The teachers go there and sit, hang around, read magazines, and waste time. The city pays $20 million a year to house teachers in rubber rooms.
A new union contract is supposed to make it easier to fire teachers for sexual infractions, but the Byzantine rules for other offenses remain. Insane as most are, some teachers told me they support the firing rules. "You prove I'm a bad teacher!" said one. "And if you can't prove it, don't try it!"
The restrictions on firing teachers are defended as a means of protecting teachers from favoritism. But if schools and principals had to compete, good teachers would be protected by competition itself: If a principal's job depends on having good people working for him, he won't sacrifice it to give a favored incompetent a job he can't do.
Taking six years to fire a teacher doesn't do anyone any good -- except bad teachers. So why do it? The short answer is unions. The long answer is next week's column.