Posted on 01/23/2007 6:37:51 PM PST by wintertime
(snip) "The U.S. Department of Education does not require any state to gather information on educators' misconduct with students. Only 17 of the states require that schools report to their own state Department of Education when a teacher resigns or is fired for these circumstances," Miller told WND.
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One federal study that compiled data from previous studies showed there sometimes are no consequences, even if a teacher's sexual misdeeds are known to school administrators. It found:
Of 225 select cases of teacher sex abuse in New York, although all the accused had admitted to sexually abusing a student, not one was reported to the police and only 1 percent lost their license to teach.
A 2003 study reports that 159 Washington state coaches were "reprimanded, warned, or let go in the past decade because of sexual misconduct" – and yet, "at least 98 of them continued coaching or teaching afterward.”
A 2004 study reports that many school districts make confidential agreements with abusers, essentially trading a positive recommendation for a resignation. In one case, a Seattle educator named Luke Markishtum "had two decades of complaints of sex with students and providing alcohol and marijuana to students prior to his arrest for smuggling six tons of marijuana into the state. The district paid Markishtum the remainder of his salary that year, agreed to keep the record secret, and gave him an additional $69,000."
(snip) She also extrapolated from a national survey conducted for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000 that roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a public school employee between 1991 and 2000.
The report itself puts the number of students subject to sexual misconduct by a school employee during the kindergarten-to-grade-12 years at about 4.5 million.
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Children have a very good chance of being seriously abused in their government schools. And,,,,NO ONE seems to be interested in investigating it, keeping track of it, reporting on it, or fixing it.
Another good reason to homeschool.
"The report itself puts the number of students subject to sexual misconduct by a school employee during the kindergarten-to-grade-12 years at about 4.5 million."
I call bs. Unless you have an amazingly broad definition of sexual misconduct.
There were precisely zero cases during my own K to 12 schooling, and still none in my lifetime.
New York is New York. That explains the "225 select cases".
You know it's not the facts that count, only the seriousness of the charge.
I simply disagree that students have a "very good chance" of being abused in a public school. I am not saying it doesn't occur, but how many thousands attend daily without abuse ever occurring?
She was 25, from Texas, really cute.
She'd show me how to draw something up in a straw and I'd just about pass out.
Thirty five years later I'm still carrying a torch.
dupe:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772379/posts
use the search, Tux.
Homeschool or private school - a CONSERVATIVE private school that has ZERO tolerance for this abuse.
I can assure you that any teacher who sexually abuses a student in Georgia will be fired, de-certified, and prosecuted.
Abuse at the hands of fellow students is a part of growing up in the blackboard jungle as it were. It's good training for the real world where no-one gives a crap about your self-esteem.
Many of the home schooled children I have met are wholly incapable of dealing with the abuse dished out in the real world of college. While the home schoolers are more academically prepared they are the the least prepared emotionally to deal with those who have made it out of the blackboard jungle and come out on top.
These "gay" teachers must have a field day when there is the REQUIRED Gay Straight Alliance Day! Then teachers can get their hands on COOPERATIVE students. It's truly disgusting what is going on out there.
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This should be considered sexual abuse, but it isn't.
Somehow, evil is called good, and good is called evil.
This should be considered sexual abuse, but it isn't.
Somehow, evil is called good, and good is called evil.
What the heck are you talking about? Care about your self esteem maybe not, beat you up for being different or shun you because you're not a cool kid, I don't think so. I was homeschooled. Here in the real world I can choose who to associate with. Bullies? Not happening.
I work in a company that is 90% engineers or computer scientists. They were the bullied kids. None of them think that made them better. In fact the rate of homeschooling among such people is higher than average, probably partly because they remember their school days with hatred.
If you have a job where you suffer daily emotional or physical abuse, you need to get another job.
Hmmm. Had the errant Catholic priests been unionized, they might still have their jobs.
At 18, kids have their whole lives ahead of them to learn how to be jerks. No need to force it on them before that.
The stats for homeschoolers on civic participation and stuff like college and job success suggests that not learning how to be a jerk in middle school does not hurt them at all.
I'm continually amazed at folks who think locking up hundreds of hormonal 7th and 8th graders in the same box for 7 hours a day and expecting it to help their ability to navigate socially is a good idea.
In the 8th grade, our PE teacher was fired and prosecuted for molesting some of his male students.
My senior year in high school....I had an extremely uncomfortable encounter with my world history teacher. He had me run an errand for him that brought me back to his empty classroom during his planning period. He asked me point blank how I felt about kissing him. With a deer in the headlights look....I bolted from the room and made my escape. I didn't tell anyone because I thought they'd laugh at me.
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