Posted on 04/29/2022 9:24:44 PM PDT by DoodleBob
In the past year, 5.7 million students have faced sexual abuse from school employees across all 50 states in America. But how and why does this problem persist? Educational researcher Charol Shakeshaft explores the atrocities of school employee sexual misconduct through powerful stories and offers potential solutions to this unsettling situation.
Charol Shakeshaft has been studying equity and justice in schools for four decades. Charol is an acclaimed author, receiving national and state awards. She was just awarded a grant from the Centers for Disease Control to study the prevention of school employee sexual misconduct.
In 2004, Dr. Shakeshaft completed a report mandated by the U.S. Senate that presented on the prevalence of educator sexual misconduct as well as recommendations to the Senate and House of Representatives for federal, state, and local prevention initiatives.
Dr. Shakeshaft serves as an expert witness in both criminal and civil cases on the sexual abuse of children in youth organizations and schools. She was elected an AERA fellow in 2015 and received the 2015 AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award and the 2020 Outstanding Research Award. Charol currently teaches graduate courses in the Department of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Does this happen a lot? Yes. At any one time, 10% of elementary, middle and high school students are the target of school employee sexual misconduct. That is 5.7 million students, at any one time.
...why do school employees sexually abuse and exploit students, I NOW know the answer to that, too. Because they CAN..
If we know this continues to happen...why haven't we stopped the sexual abuse by students of school employees?...
1, we don't know what we're seeing..we don't know about boundaries, we don't know about red flags, (in an abuse situation, "colleagues said, yea, yea, I saw them together a lot, I thought he was using really, really bad judgement, but hey, it's not really any of my business, or "I thought about reporting, but what if I'm wrong? I'd ruin the career of a very good teacher, so I didn't report..." "People see boundary crossings, grooming behaviors, people SEE...schools need to train staff...to report when boundaries are crossed, when they see grooming behaviors.")
(2) we believe it won't happen in our school, ("After the abuse was discovered and the teacher was arrested, here's what was said...'I can't believe it's true. I mean, he was an outstanding teacher, everybody knows. And anyway, this happened in OUR school.") and
(3) we fail to comprehend just how devastating child sexual abuse is...("When this (abuse) was discovered, here's what was said: 'hey, it's not that big a deal...it's every male student's dream to have sex with his teacher.' Or, 'he'll get over it, he's in high school, it's not that bad.'")
We can stop prioritizing the comfort of adults, over the safety of children. For too long, we've left the safety of children, to children. We've taught them good touch/bad touch, and figured the job was done. Not only was the job not done, it isn't a child's job to stop the sexual abuse of children in schools. It's OUR responsibility.
Why do school employees sexually abuse students? Because they CAN.
Here is Professor Shakeshaft's research. Clearly, academics aside from this Professor aren't interested in researching this topic - protecting their own.
With the name “shakeshaft” is a person studying serial abuse? Is this a joke?
For me in 1968 we know not to go on Dr. Weber’s camping trips.
Sexual.
Shakeshaft?
Ya just can’t make this stuff up.
This is deadly serious.
It’s a variation on the name Shakespeare.
Liberal media love to blare the trumpet on sexual abuse in conservative institutions and organizations - Catholic Church, Christian churches, Boy Scouts, military, etc, but where it’s actually the worst, government school/indoctrination centers - hardly a peep except for locality reporting.
The subconscious mind has a big sense of humor. Bored, and trapped in a temporal plane, it sometimes plays jokes on its host. This is one of them: Nominative determinism
Leftists use all tools available to destroy. Right people can learn from their methods to bring down the government indoctrination centers.
Ha!
>> We can stop prioritizing the comfort of adults, over the safety of children.
“We must stop prioritizing...”
>> At any one time, 10% of...
Wow, that’s much higher with respect to what’s publicly reported.
K-12 classrooms should be video recorded with limited access to faculty and parents. That will immediately solve numerous issues.
How is it funny? She didn’t give herself her surname.
“Shakeshaft?”
Rush would occasionally read her columns on his radio show. He always chuckled at her name.
“….why haven’t we stopped the sexual abuse by students of school employees?...”
Something not quite right with that sentence.
Who said anything about funny.
This is school employee abuse. Add to that the abuse from fellow students.
Employee plus student abuse is an enormous risk. Why would any parent risk this?
Another Reason to Homeschool.
“In the past year, 5.7 million students have faced sexual abuse from school employees across all 50 states in America.”
I’m astonished. I had no idea this kind of thing happened so frequently. Almost 6 million kids A YEAR. The government schools must be full of pedophiles. Why is no one talking about this?
I'm not a big one to blame teachers unions for ALL the problems in public education (the legal enshrinement of in loco parentis gets my vote). but in this case it is ABSOLUTELY the Unions.
In a separate post that dimension was highlighted in disgusting detail. A bill in CA that died would have required schools to inquire with past employers to see if applicants were previously found responsible for an act of child abuse or sexual misconduct with a pupil. Schools would have been required to disclose substantiated sexual misconduct findings directly to other schools. The legislation would have also banned language preventing disclosure of child abuse or sexual misconduct with a child in union contracts, as well as termination or severance deals with employees. Buuuuuut...The California Teachers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and others opposed the bill, citing due process concerns for employees.
There is strikingly very little published research on this topic - probably due to an unspoken blackballing that'd happen to academics who shine light on this grotesque underbelly of education. But what I've read points to a conga line of sick teachers who leave before an official case can be compiled, nobody saying anything in part due to union rules that official transcripts can't include "heresay", (and some codependent combo of parents thinking it can't happen in THEIR school or that maybe little Mary made it up) and they move to a new district to continue preying on kids.
To be sure, the recent groomer sensation has (finally) riled up people, and the trans and same-sex dimension has been the magnet. Fair enough, but opposite sex educator-student abuse makes up about 70%+ of all misconduct...and that's been going on for a LONG time.
For some football-player/rapist type men, it's worth a giggle if teenage Johnny has sex with Mrs Jones - I think it's a crime and the educational retinue protecting Mrs Jones should be keelhauled (along with Mrs Jones).
Small wonder Homeschooling is on the rise. Professor Shakeshaft should be on Tucker.
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