[Antoninus]

Yes, public schools have a huge problem. Sexual abuse by teachers and other students is very wide spread. But that isn't the subject here.

The subject here is "let's bash the Catholic Church." The fact is that the abuse rate among Catholic priests has dropped to almost nil since 2002 with only isolated incidents cropping up.

Now, we all know that sex abuse remains a huge problem in schools and other institutions, but nobody--and I mean nobody--in media or among the Church-haters on FR give a damn about it. If they did, you'd see article after article about in the media and posted on FR. That you don't tells you all you need to know--those harping on this issue with regard to Catholics have an agenda and that agenda has nothing to do with protecting children from abuse.

[redgolum]

To a point, you are right.

If you look at the articles posted about teachers abusing students, many of the comments are positive (the various “guilty/not guilty tags”).