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EDUCATOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IS ON THE RISE IN US PUBLIC SCHOOLS: REPORT
Stop Child Abuse ^ | N/A | January 18, 2023

Posted on 08/15/2026 6:39:40 AM PDT by DoodleBob

From sexting to rape, there is a disturbing uptick in sexual misconduct by public school teachers and other staff against students across the United States.

The growing problem was recently highlighted by an audit of Chicago public schools where dozens of staff members ranging from teachers, administrators, and counselors, to security officers—even a sign language interpreter—were found guilty of committing a variety of sex crimes against students while in school.

The audit was conducted by the Sexual Assault Unit of the Chicago school’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

The OIG did not respond to inquiries by The Epoch Times about the audit’s findings.

Inappropriate Touching

Over the course of some 50 pages, the OIG detailed case after case of teachers grooming children as young as elementary age for sex, texting pictures of their genitals to students, making sexual advances on them such as kissing, fondling, and inappropriate touching, and sexual assault.

Several school workers were found to possess child pornography on their phones and in one case, a school janitor was arrested after it was discovered he was secretly videotaping children in the school bathroom with a cellphone he had hidden under a sink.

In another case, a male special education teacher was found to have spent seven months grooming an 8th-grade student and then ultimately having sex with the girl in her home. In another case, a male high school teacher was found to have sent more than 4,000 sexual texts to a student including 400 messages in just one day.

The teacher also told the female student he had a sexual relationship with a male student, and that he had an open marriage.

The OIG found that in some of the cases, staff members knew about the sexual misconduct, but failed to report it—as was the case involving a high school physical education teacher who exposed himself to female students by pulling down his pants and showing his genitals.

According to the report, the teacher, who has a daughter around the age of the female students, sent videos via social media to at least one of the students of himself masturbating and engaging in other sexual acts.

The student was able to provide several of the clips to the OIG.

California to Maine

“Public schools are a scary place,” said Brian Rohrbough, founder of the Facebook group The Real Truth About Public Schools.

The group tracks sexual misconduct by public school employees against school kids and posts them on their Facebook page. A review of them shows the cases are from California to Maine.

Rohrbough and his wife Lisa originally started the Real Truth About Public School to track safety flaws after their 15-year-old son Daniel was killed in the tragic Columbine school shooting in 1999.

While they track school shootings, public school corruption, and other problems, they said educator sexual misconduct dominates their posts, which sometimes are as many as 10 cases a day.

And like the incidents in the Chicago schools, the group has found that most of the sex crimes being committed by public school workers nationwide are severe.

Rohrbough believes the reason for the rampant problem comes with a simple explanation. “Child molesters go with the kids,” he said.

The reason why it remains largely unaddressed, he believes, is because a liberal media together with liberal lawmakers do not want it to get out to the “public eye” that public schools are a breeding ground for sex crimes against kids.

“This is the god they worship,” he said.

National experts like Carol Shakeshaft, who was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education to study the problem, have come to similar conclusions, pointing out the focus on sex abuse involving Catholic priests and The Boy Scouts despite the fact that sex abuse of students by public school staff is “100 times higher.”

Shakeshaft, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor and fellow for the American Educational Research Association, has written books on the subject including a recent one entitled “Organization Betrayal: How Schools Enable Employee Sexual Misconduct and How to Stop It.”

Catching Predators

Alex Rosen, a former college football player, works the frontlines on the problem. He runs an online version of the now-defunct popular NBC TV show To Catch A Predator.

Under the name Predator Poachers, which can be seen on Rumble, Rosen and others pose as minors online to catch predators in the act of committing sex crimes against children. He told The Epoch Times the predators are often teachers or public school employees.

Rosen, who calls himself a “pedo whisperer,” also told The Epoch Times his work has led him to believe there is a connection between educator sex crimes against kids and the current trend to push transgendering of kids by schools.

That conclusion comes from cases like one he is working on involving an Oregon elementary school teacher he confronted for filming kids at school and posting them online. Rosen, who turns his cases over to police after hunting down the predators and confronting them, said he also discovered the teacher was putting his 8-year-old boy in dresses and then filming him.

Rosen said “grooming” kids has become an industry that satisfies a variety of desires, from financial to perverted pleasure.

“Child predators have weird sexual fetishes,” he said, “transgender is the new fetish.”

Rosen also posts on Twitter under “iFightForKids.”

Persistent And Growing Problem

Shakeshaft is currently working under a $1.2 million grant from the CDC on educator sexual misconduct in public schools.

She co-authored a study of sexual abuse in 1994 for Phi Delta Kappan, which looks at public school policies and practices.

Then there was her DOE report in 2004, which includes a report that an estimated 10 percent—or a little more than 4 million children—were victims of sexual misdeeds by public school staff members.

A 2014 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office entitled, “Federal Agencies Can Better Support State Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Abuse by School Personnel” found that sexual grooming of students by public school employees remains a persistent and growing problem.

Rohrbough believes another main reason the problem persists is that public school administrators pressure parents to let them handle sex crimes against their children by staff “in-house.”

“They tell the parents how much it will harm the child if it goes to court or becomes highly publicized, and tell them they’ll terminate the teacher, but what they really do is just move the teacher to another district,” said Rohrbough, “and they just go on re-offending.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arth; groomers; grooming; homeschooling; lgbt; lgbtq; predators; publicschools

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An article yesterday on Kansas students forced to put cell phones in lockers before school as new ‘bell to bell’ law enforced set off a pro/con debate on the matter of removing phones from kids in public schools.

The pro-confiscation crowd believe it’ll help teachers do their job better; the kids won’t be distracted, how did kids survive before cell phones, and the common “Awww...you mean they actually have to pay attention in class?? The horror!!“

The anti-confiscation crowd believes the phones are a legitimate self-defense mechanism against predator educators, Karen the teacher berating conservative students, and noted that if a 2024 NEA poll found that 90 percent of teachers support prohibiting student cellphone use during instructional hours, you KNOW there’s an ulterior motive. Remember, these are the same people who don’t want parents to know what pronouns they’re using for Johnny and Mary.

Not all teachers are scum. Neither are all kids. That said, 68% of campaign contributions from K-12 teachers went to Dems in the 2022 cycle.

Don’t forget, “10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.” (Communist Manifesto).

1 posted on 08/15/2026 6:39:40 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: MayflowerMadam; metmom

Possible ping of interest.


2 posted on 08/15/2026 6:40:20 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s. )
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To: DoodleBob

Pedophiles and perverts don’t have to hang around outside schools anymore the democrats hire them


3 posted on 08/15/2026 6:44:06 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: All

FTA

The disturbing uptick in sexual misconduct by public school teachers and staff against students was recently highlighted by dozens of staff members in Chicago public schools, ranging from teachers, administrators, and counselors, to security officers—even a sign language interpreter—found guilty of committing a variety of sex crimes against students......... while in school.


4 posted on 08/15/2026 6:46:30 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of Hig hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: DoodleBob

Yes. Interesting. I worry about my sister’s three beautiful granddaughters.


5 posted on 08/15/2026 6:46:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: DoodleBob

Back when schools actually provided an education, the term for those providing it was “teacher”.

We’ve witnessed the depravity extant in our ‘publik skoolz’ now that ‘progressive’ dorks have decided that ‘educator’ more properly describes those with joke degrees and even more ludicrous ‘eddikashuns’ have taken over. “Dr” Jill Biden is an example.


6 posted on 08/15/2026 6:46:45 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DoodleBob

“Where the body is, there the vultures will gather”


7 posted on 08/15/2026 6:48:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: butlerweave

8 posted on 08/15/2026 6:49:01 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s. )
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To: DoodleBob

Luke17:

Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. 2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 3 So watch yourselves.


9 posted on 08/15/2026 6:51:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: DoodleBob

Teachers are no longer a respected group anymore. Too many trashy and perverted creeps just there to exploit, abuse, and sully the minds of children.

But really, what groups of anybody are respected anymore?

The culture is ruined.


10 posted on 08/15/2026 6:51:59 AM PDT by dforest
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To: DoodleBob

They left out about selling homosexual and transexual as virtue.


11 posted on 08/15/2026 6:58:27 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DoodleBob

I had a Nun in Catholic School who was hot.


12 posted on 08/15/2026 7:00:09 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: DoodleBob

It’s always been there. They’ve been protected by unions and underreported. Never accountable for anything ... not poor student performance ... not money laundering for the democrats ... not sexual abuse.


13 posted on 08/15/2026 7:06:52 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: kawhill

Sister Mary Louise, second grade, couldn’t understand why she became a nun. Even at 7 I could see she was very pretty. Also, a good teacher and one of the gentlest and kindest individuals I’ve ever met.


14 posted on 08/15/2026 7:10:34 AM PDT by redangus
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To: DoodleBob

The only things NOT on the rise in public schools are math and literacy skills.


15 posted on 08/15/2026 7:14:18 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: DoodleBob

The pro-confiscation crowd opposes the school placing video cameras in classrooms too. Either because they don’t want their “teaching “ exposed or they want to molest your kids. Pedos always go where the kids are.


16 posted on 08/15/2026 7:15:53 AM PDT by subterfuge (What happened to my tagline?)
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To: johniegrad
For the past 30-40 years the Catholic priests have been getting the majority of this bad press.
It isn't just them.
Does anyone really believe that this sort of perversion is just now beginning in the public schools?
17 posted on 08/15/2026 7:19:50 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: MayflowerMadam

This is no surprise to us of course. Morality and virtue were driven out of the schools many years ago. This is the logical result.


18 posted on 08/15/2026 7:26:33 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: DoodleBob

It’s not a slippery slope if it was always part of the program.


19 posted on 08/15/2026 7:30:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was always part of the program. )
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To: DoodleBob

I haven’t studied the stats, but it seems a lot of what I hear about this misconduct is from 35-year-old female teachers with 15–16-year-old boys.


20 posted on 08/15/2026 7:30:44 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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