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.
Shakeshaft?
Ya just can’t make this stuff up.
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.
>> 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.
“….why haven’t we stopped the sexual abuse by students of school employees?...”
Something not quite right with that sentence.
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?
An important heads-up to all parents and grandparents.
Be extra vigilant!