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Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.

“They might deal with it internally, suspending the person or having the person move on. So their license is never investigated,” says Charol Shakeshaft, a leading expert in teacher sex abuse who heads the educational leadership department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”

Laws in several states require that even an allegation of sexual misconduct be reported to the state departments that oversee teacher licenses. But there’s no consistent enforcement, so such laws are easy to ignore.

School officials fear public embarrassment as much as the perpetrators do, Shakeshaft says. They want to avoid the fallout from going up against a popular teacher. They also don’t want to get sued by teachers or victims, and they don’t want to face a challenge from a strong union.



38 posted on 09/10/2012 10:59:26 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
How many teacher perverts call themselves Father, as in GOD the Father?
40 posted on 09/10/2012 11:01:13 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Please help Todd Akin defeat Claire and the GOP-e send money!!!!!)
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To: Salvation

There are millions, and millions of teachers, they are just regular Joe’s, Buddhists, Catholics Methodists, atheists, Satan worshipers, lesbians, just a hodge podge of millions of working people.

There are 39,000 handpicked and Catholic trained Priests, “Father” to as many as a million of those teachers.


41 posted on 09/10/2012 11:11:03 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Aug. 27, 2012-Mitt Romney said his views on abortion are more lenient than the Republican Platform)
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Priests have an even greater responsibility than secular teachers do. Priests supposedly act as intermediaries between God and men, hearing confessions and pronouncing forgiveness, offering sacrifices and prayers on behalf of the supplicant. He is even said to undergo an ontological change upon anointing as a priest.

The greater the privilege, the greater the responsibility and properly are held to a much higher standard than a school teacher.

57 posted on 09/11/2012 12:18:08 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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