[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What’s curious to me is how most of these teachers are women, unless the press is only publicizing them?

[allmendream]

Most teachers ARE women - but the majority of sexual abuse, by teachers or not, are committed by men - and most of the victims are female.

Women teachers tend to get more publicity (and less punishment) because it is more of a “man bites dog” story.

You cannot base the prevalence of crime based upon press. Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church receives more than 10 times the ‘ink’ of sexual abuse in the schools; despite estimates that one hundred times more children were sexually abused by teachers than by priests.

[allmendream]

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0506teachersex0507.html

Some numbers from Arizona. In that year 73 teachers lost their licenses for sexual offenses - 10 of them were women.

Around 75% of teachers in public schools are women.